TheDeadSeaScrollsinRecentScholarship:AVirtualPublicConference

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GlobalNetworkforAdvancedResearchinJewishStudies SkirballDepartmentofHebrewandJudaicStudiesFriendsoftheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthority

Sunday,May17

1:00-2:30PMEDT:PlenarySession

ChairandOpeningRemarks AlexJassen,NewYorkUniversityGreetingandWelcome AndrewD.Hamilton,President,NewYorkUniversityWelcome EmilyMaster,FriendsoftheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthority JoeUziel,CuratorandHeadoftheDeadSeaScrollsUnitContributionsoftheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthoritytothePreservationandStudyoftheDeadSea

Scrolls PninaShor,IsraelAntiquitiesAuthorityWhereareWeintheStudyoftheDeadSeaScrolls? LawrenceH.Schiffman,NewYorkUniversity2:30-3:00PMEDT:BREAK3:30-5:00PMEDT:CanonandAuthorityChair:EileenSchuller,McMasterUniversityBeforetheCanon-TheRoleofExtra-biblicalLiteratureinSecondTempleJudaism ArminLange,UniversityofVienna

TheCanonandtheCanonicalProcess:TheEvidenceoftheScrolls EugeneUlrich,UniversityofNotreDameScribesasAuthorsintheDeadSeaScrolls MollyZahn,UniversityofKansasMonday,May189:00-11:00AMEDT:Archaeology,RealiaandScienceChair:DennisMizzi,UniversityofMaltaNewArchaeologicalInvestigationsofQumranCave3Q MarcelloFidanzio,FacultyofTheology,LuganoInkwellsresiduesasaPre-screeningToolforCharacterizingDSSInk IlitCohen-Ofri,IsraelAntiquitiesAuthorityEssenesatMasada JodiMagness,UniversityofNorthCarolinaTradeandManufactureatQumran,withSpecialAttentiontotheInscriptions SidnieWhiteCrawford,UniversityofNebraska11:00-11:30AMEDT:BREAK11:30AM-12:30PM:MimeticPerformanceinAncientJudaismChair:AlisonSchofield,UniversityofDenverMimeticandLiteraryPerformanceinAncientJudaism HindyNajman,OxfordUniversityMimeticandScribalPerformanceinAncientJudaism EibertTigchelaar,KULeuven12:30-1:00PMEDT:BREAK

1:00-3:00PMEDT:InterpretingDeadSeaScrollsTextsChair:LawrenceH.Schiffman,NewYorkUniversityJubileesandtheVisionsofAmram JamesC.VanderKam,UniversityofNotreDameDecipheringFragments:TefillinoranAmulet? ArielFeldman,BriteDivinitySchool ReimaginingIsrael:TheAramaicDeadSeaScrollsandJudaismintheHellenisticPeriod DanielMachiela,McMasterUniversityDigitalExplorationoftheDeadSeaScrollswithScriptaQumranicaElectronica BronsonBrown-deVost,Georg-August-UniversitätGöttingenTuesday,May199:00-10:30AMEDT:Science,TechnologyandtheScrollsChair:RobertCargill,UniversityofIowaResearchingtheDSSwithImagingTechnologies OritRosengarten,IsraelAntiquitiesAuthority

ModernForgeries:TheScientificAnalysisofDeadSeaScrollFragmentsintheMuseumoftheBibleCollection ColetteLoll,ArtFraudInsights,LLCTheHandsthatWrotetheBible.DigitalPalaeographyoftheDeadSeaScrollsforIdentifyingandDatingManuscripts MladenPopovićandMarufDhali,UniversityofGroningen10:30-11:00AMEDT:BREAK11:00AM-12:30PMIdeologyandTheologyChair:ErikLarson,FloridaInternationalUniversity

VirtueSignalingintheDeadSeaScrolls CharlotteHempel,UniversityofBirminghamMetaphysicsofFinancialRelationsinQumranWisdom JonathanBen-Dov,HaifaUniversityPatternsofPrayerintheDeadSeaScrolls GeorgeBrooke,UniversityofManchester12:30-1:00PMEDT:BREAK1:00-3:00PMEDT:QumranandtheSectChair:MosheBernstein,YeshivaUniversityWomenintheSectarianTextsfromQumran EstherChazon,HebrewUniversityofJerusalemTheImportanceoftheDeadSeaScrollsforReconstructingtheLifeandMessageofJesus CeciliaWassén,UppsalaUniversityWhyNOTtheEssenes:HowtoTalkabouttheDeadSeaSectarians MaxineGrossman,UniversityofMarylandTheSectarianMovementandQumran JohnCollins,YaleUniversityWednesdayMay20,20209:00-11:00AMEDT:HebrewBibleanditsInterpretationChair:CanaWerman,Ben-GurionUniversityTheManyFacesoftheBibleintheDeadSeaScrolls EmanuelTov,HebrewUniversityofJerusalemReworkedPentateuchandGenesisApocryphon:CloseorDistantRelatives?

MosheBernstein,YeshivaUniversity

“2300EveningsandMornings”(Dan8:13-14)RecalculatedaccordingtotheDamascusDocument MichaelSegal,HebrewUniversityofJerusalemThePerfectMarriageintheGenesisApocryphon EstherEshel,Bar-IlanUniversity11:00-11:30AMEDT:Break11:30AM-1:00PMEDT:Cave11andtheTempleScrollChair:JosephAngel,YeshivaUniversityTreasuresfromaSmallBox:RecentlyDiscoveredFragmentsfromCave11

OrenAbleman,IsraelAntiquitiesAuthorityTheHydra-headedMysteriesoftheTempleScroll AndrewD.Gross,CatholicUniversityofAmericaTheUtopianTemplePlanoftheTempleScroll LawrenceH.Schiffman,NewYorkUniversity1:00-1:30PMEDT:BREAK1:30-3:00PMEDT:LawandLiturgyChair:JonathanBen-Dov,HaifaUniversityWhatwasGivenonMt.Sinai? CanaWerman,Ben-GurionUniversityLawandOrderintheDeadSeaScrolls SariannaMetso,UniversityofTorontoTheEarlyStudyofJewishLawintheDamascusDocument AlexJassen,NewYorkUniversity3:00-3:30PMEDT:CloseofConferenceandThanks LawrenceH.Schiffman,NewYorkUniversity EmilyMaster,FriendsoftheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthority

AbouttheSpeakersOrenAblemanisaresearcherandcuratorattheDeadSeaSeaScrollsUnitoftheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthority.HerecentlycompletedaPhDattheHebrewUniversityofJerusalemunderthesupervisionofEstherChazonandNoahHacham.ThetitleofhisPhDdissertationwas:"ResponsestotheRomanConquestofJudea(63BCE)intheDeadSeaScrolls:AHistorical-LiteraryDiscussionintheRomanContextoftheSectarianTextsfromQumran".JosephL.AngelisAssociateProfessorofJewishHistoryatYeshivaUniversity.HehaspublishednumerousstudiesonSecondTempleJudaism,includingOtherworldlyandEschatologicalPriesthoodintheDeadSeaScrolls(Brill,2010).HeiscurrentlyworkingonaneweditionoftheQumranmanuscriptsknownastheSongsoftheSage(4Q510-511).JonathanBen-DovisGeorgeandFlorenceWiseChairofJudaisminAntiquityattheUniversityofHaifa.HisresearchinterestsincludetheHebrewBible,AncientNearEasternLiterature,Ancienttime-reckoning,DeadSeaScrollsandapocalypticliterature.HeiscurrentlypreparingeditionsofwisdomwritingsandoftextsincrypticscriptfromQumran.MosheJ.BernsteinisProfessorofBibleandJewishHistoryatYeshivaUniversity,whereheholdstheDavidA.andFannieM.DenenbergChairinBiblicalStudies.HehaspublishedextensivelyonJewishbiblicalinterpretationinantiquity,especiallyintheDeadSeaScrolls.HewishesthatmoreoftheGenesisApocryphonhadsurvivedinthecaves.BronsonBrown-deVostisapost-doctoralresearcherandprojectmanagerfortheinternationalresearchprojectScriptaQumranicaElectronica,whereheiscurrentlypreparingadigitaleditionofthelargeSamuelscrollfromQumran(4Q51).HecompletedhisPhDinBibleandtheancientNearEastatBrandeisUniversityin2015,andrecentlypublishedanupdatedformofhisdissertation,CommentaryandAuthorityinMesopotamiaandQumran(Göttingen:Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht,2019).HisarticlesmaybefoundinmanyofthemajorresearchjournalsinthefieldofQumranandbiblicalstudies.GeorgeJ.BrookeisRylandsProfessorEmeritusofBiblicalCriticismandExegesisattheUniversityofManchesterwherehetaughtBiblicalStudiesandEarlyJudaismfrom1984until2016.HeisalsoVisitingProfessorofBiblicalStudiesattheUniversityofChester.AmongsthispublicationsareExegesisatQumran(1985;reprinted,2006),TheDeadSeaScrollsandtheNewTestament(2005),andReadingtheDeadSeaScrolls:EssaysinMethod(2013).RobertR.Cargill(PhDUCLA,2008)isAssociateProfessorofClassicsandReligiousStudiesattheUniversityofIowaandEditorofBiblicalArchaeologyReview.HeistheauthorofQumranthrough(Real)Time:AVirtualReconstructionofQumranandtheDeadSeaScrolls(Gorgias

Press,2009),TheCitiestheBuilttheBible(HarperOne,2016),andMelchizedek,KingofSodom:HowScribesInventedtheBiblicalPriest-King(OxfordUniversityPress,2019).Prof.EstherG.ChazonisAssociateProfessorofHebrewLiteratureandDirectoroftheOrionCenterfortheStudyoftheDeadSeaScrolls&AssociatedLiteratureattheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem.SheisonthesteeringcommitteeoftheInternationalOrganizationforQumranStudiesandtheeditorialboardofDeadSeaDiscoveries;hasservedasco-chairoftheQumranSectionoftheSocietyofBiblicalLiteratureandwasamemberoftheDeadSeaScrollsEditorialTeam.JohnJ.CollinsisHolmesProfessorofOldTestamentatYale.HisbooksincludeBeyondtheQumranCommunity(Eerdmans)andTheDeadSeaScrolls.ABiography(Princeton).Heisco-editorwithTimothyLimofTheOxfordHandbookoftheDeadSeaScrolls.SidnieWhiteCrawfordisWillaCatherProfessorofHebrewBibleandSecondTempleJudaismemeritaattheUniversityofNebraska-LincolnandaVisitingProfessoratPrincetonTheologicalSeminary.SheistheauthormostrecentlyofScribesandScrollsatQumran(Wm.B.Eerdmans,2019).Dr.CrawfordisChairoftheOldTestamentEditorialBoardfortheHermeneiaCommentarySeries,aMemberoftheSocietyofBiblicalLiteratureCouncil,andBoardChairEmeritaoftheW.F.AlbrightInstituteofArchaeologicalResearchinJerusalem.MarufA.DhalireceivedhisM.Sc.degree(withdistinction)inComputerVisionandRoboticsfromHeriot-WattUniversity,Edinburgh,theUKin2015.HewasarecipientoftheEuropeanCommission’sErasmusMundusMastersScholarship,andattendedtheUniversityofBurgundy,France;UniversityofGirona,Spain,andtheUniversityofEdinburgh,theUKduringhisstudy.HeiscurrentlyworkingtowardshisPh.D.attheDepartmentofArtificialIntelligenceatBernoulliInstitute.HeisaresearcherinthemultidisciplinaryERCprojectonanalyzingtheDeadSeaScrolls.Hisresearchinterestincludescomputervision,machinelearning,andartificialintelligence.EstherEshelisProfessorintheBibleDepartmentandintheMartin(Szusz)DepartmentofLandofIsraelStudiesandArchaeologyatBarIlanUniversity,andanactingheadoftheJeselsohnEpigraphicCenterofJewishHistoryatBar-IlanUniversity.Fieldsofresearch:(1)thelatebooksoftheHebrewBible,aspartofaninterestinJewishliteratureoftheSecondTempleperiod,includingearlyJewishexegesis;and(2)epigraphyofFirstandSecondTemplePeriods.AmemberoftheinternationalteampublishingtheDeadSeaScrolls;Co-Author(withJ.C.GreenfildandM.E.Stone),TheAramaicLeviDocument(StudiainVeterisTestamentiPseudepigrapha,19).Leiden2004;and(withA.Kloner,H.KorzakovaandG.Finkielsztejn),MareshaIII:EpigraphicFindsfromthe1989-2000Seasons(IAAReports,No.45).Jerusalem2010andS.AhituvandE.Eshel(2015),ToYhwhofTemanandhisashera:theinscriptionsanddrawingsfromKuntillet'Ajrud('HorvatTěman')inSinai.Jerusalem:YadBenZvi.

ArielFeldmanisanAssociateProfessorofJewishStudiesatBriteDivinitySchoolandTCU.Hepublishedseveralbooksandarticles,allofwhichdealwiththeDeadSeaScrolls.HeisparticularlyinterestedinallmattersrelatedtotheearlyJewishinterpretationofthetextsthatcametobeknownastheHebrewBible.MarcelloFidanzioisprofessorattheFacultyofTheologyofLugano(FTL),directoroftheinstituteofarchaeology(ISCAB-FTL),anddirectoroftheQumranCavesPublicationProject(EBAFJerusalemandISCABFTL).AndrewD.GrossisanAssociateProfessorandChairoftheDepartmentofSemiticandEgyptianLanguagesandLiteraturesattheCatholicUniversityofAmerica,wherehehastaughtsince2008.HereceivedhisPhDinHebrewandJudaicStudiesfromNewYorkUniversityin2005.HeiscompletinganeweditionoftheTempleScrollwithLawrenceH.Schiffman.MaxineL.GrossmanisanassociateprofessorofJewishStudiesandReligiousStudiesintheJosephandRebeccaMeyerhoffCenterforJewishStudiesattheUniversityofMaryland.Sheisfoundingco-editoroftheJournalofAncientJudaism,andherscholarshipontheDeadSeaScrollsincludesthemonographReadingforHistoryintheDamascusDocument:AMethodologicalStudy,andtheeditedvolumeRediscoveringtheDeadSeaScrolls:AnAssessmentofOldandNewApproachesandMethods.Hercurrentworkonthescrollsincludesexplorationsofgender,sexuality,andtheologiesofperfection.CharlotteHempelisProfessorofHebrewBibleandSecondTempleJudaismattheUniversityofBirmingham,UK.HermostrecentpublicationsincludetheT&TClarkCompaniontotheDeadSeaScrollswhichsheco-editedwithProfessorGeorgeBrookeandTheCommunityRulefromQumran:ACommentarytobepublishedbyMohrSiebeckthisfall.AlexP.JassenisChairoftheSkirballDepartmentofHebrewandJudaicStudiesandEthelandIrvinEdelmanAssociateProfessorofHebrewandJudaicStudiesatNewYorkUniversity.HeistheauthorofMediatingtheDivine:ProphecyandRevelationintheDeadSeaScrollsandSecondTempleJudaism(Brill,2007),winnerofthe2009JohnTempletonAwardforTheologicalPromise,andScriptureandLawintheDeadSeaScrolls(CambridgeUniversityPress,2014),andco-editorofScripture,Violence,andTextualPracticeinEarlyJudaismandChristianity(Brill,2010)andtheJournalofAncientJudaism.ArminLangeisprofessorforSecond-TempleJudaismattheUniversityofVienna,directorofViennaUniversity'sInstituteforJewishStudies,amemberoftheinternationalteameditingtheDeadSeaScrolls,andacorrespondingmemberoftheAustrianAcademyofSciences.HehaspublishedextensivelyontheHebrewBible,itstextualandcanonicalhistories,SecondTempleJudaism,theDeadSeaScrolls,andthehistoryofantisemitism.

ErikLarsonischairoftheDepartmentofReligiousStudiesatFloridaInternationalUniversitywherehehastaughtsince1995.HecontributedtoseveralvolumesofDiscoveriesintheJudaeanDesert.HisinterestisintheapocryphaltextsofQumranandtheirrelevanceforthehistoryofSecondTempleJudaismandtheNewTestament.ColetteLollisthefounderanddirectorofArtFraudInsights,aconsultancydedicatedtoart-fraudrelatedpreventioninitiatives,exhibitions,lectures,training,andspecializedinvestigations.Ms.LollisalsoadoctoralcandidateatGeorgetownUniversity.Herdissertationfocusesonthecreationofnewprotocolsforthescientificinterrogationofquestionedancienttexts,andthecognitivedistortionsandideologicalbiasesthatcontributetonon-evidence-basedconclusionsofauthenticity.JodiMagness(www.JodiMagness.org)istheKenanDistinguishedProfessorforTeachingExcellenceinEarlyJudaismattheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill.SheisanarchaeologistspecializingintheRoman-Byzantine-earlyIslamicperiodsinPalestine(modernIsrael,Jordan,andthePalestinianterritories).HermostrecentbookisMasada:FromJewishRevolttoModernMyth(PrincetonUniversityPress2019).EmilyMasteriscurrentlytheExecutiveDirectoroftheFriendsoftheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthority,aconnectorofpeopleandprojectsinIsraeloperatedbytheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthority.Totherole,shebringsmanyyearsofinternationalartsandculturalmanagementexperienceinmarketing,communications,fundraising,operations,programevaluation,andstrategicplanning.ShehasbeeninvolvedinarchaeologicalworkinIsraelthroughtheLeonLevyExpeditiontoAshkelonandTelShimronExcavations.DanielMachielaisAssociateProfessorandChairintheDepartmentofReligiousStudiesatMcMasterUniversity.HisresearchfocusesonancientJewishandChristianliterature,history,andarcheology,withaspecializationintheDeadSeaScrolls.SariannaMetsoisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofHistoricalStudiesandtheDepartmentofNearandMiddleEasternCivilizationsattheUniversityofTorontoandanAssociateMemberoftheUniversityofTorontoCentreforJewishStudies.SheistheauthorofTheTextualDevelopmentoftheQumranCommunityRule(Brill),TheSerekhTexts(T&TClark),andTheCommunityRule:ACriticalEditionwithTranslation(SBLPress).DennisMizziisaseniorlecturerinHebrewandAncientJudaismattheUniversityofMalta.HeteachesbiblicalHebrewandAramaic,DeadSeaScrolls,andJudaismintheHellenistic,Roman,andByzantineperiods,withafocusonbothtextsandarchaeology.HeistheassistantdirectoroftheHuqoqExcavationProjectandco-founderandprojectmanageroftheTayarFoundation

forJewishHeritageinMalta.Currently,heiscompletingacomprehensive,multi-volumestudyonthearchaeologyofQumran.HindyNajman,OrielandLaingProfessoroftheInterpretationofHolyScriptureattheUniversityofOxfordisthedirectorandfounderoftheCentreforthestudiesoftheBible.HerpublicationsincludeLosingtheTempleandRecoveringtheFuture:AnAnalysisof4Ezra,PastRenewals:InterpretiveAuthority,RenewedRevelationandtheQuestforPerfection,SecondingSinai:TheDevelopmentofMosaicDiscourseinSecondTempleJudaism,andarecentessayentitled“EthicalReading:TheTransformationofTextandSelf.”Sheiscurrentlyworkingonanewbookentitled:ReadingPracticesandtheVitalityofScripture(OxfordUniversityPress).IlitCohenOfriisthedirectoroftheIAAConservationlaboratory.SheearnedherPhDinChemistryattheWeizmannInstituteofScience,on‘degradationofcharcoalinthearchaeologicalrecord,’withapost-doctoralfellowshipinchemistryoncharcoaldegradationandanadditionalpost-doctoralfellowshipinbiochemistryonalternativeenergy(usingtheprinciplesofphotosynthesistoproduceartificialenergy).BeforebeginningherpositionattheIAA,IlitwastheheadoftheSpectrometryandChemicalAnalysisUnitattheWeizmannInstitute.HerpositionattheIAADSSunitfocusesonexpandinganalyticalresearchontheDeadSeaScrolls,withaparticularemphasisonscrollconservationresearch.MladenPopovićisPrincipalInvestigatoroftheEuropeanResearchCouncilprojectTheHandsthatWrotetheBible:DigitalPalaeographyandScribalCultureoftheDeadSeaScrolls.HeisalsodirectoroftheQumranInstituteoftheUniversityofGroningen,theNetherlands.OritRosengartenisassistanttotheheadoftheDeadSeaScrollsProjectoftheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthority.Inthisroleshesupervisesimplementationofvariousconservationactivitiesandscientificresearch.ShelecturesregularlyonconservationandonthetechnologyandresultsoftheIAA'sworkwiththeDeadSeaScrolls.LawrenceH.SchiffmanistheJudgeAbrahamLiebermanProfessorofHebrewandJudaicStudiesatNewYorkUniversityandDirectoroftheGlobalInstituteforAdvancedResearchinJewishStudies.HehasservedastheChairoftheSkirballDepartmentofHebrewandJudaicStudiesatNewYorkUniversityandEthelandIrvinA.EdelmanProfessorofHebrewandJudaicStudies.HehasauthorednumerousbooksandarticlesontheDeadSeaScrolls,JudaisminLateAntiquity,thehistoryofJewishlaw,andTalmudicliterature.AlisonSchofieldanAssociateProfessorattheUniversityofDenver(DU)andandDU-IliffSchoolofTheologyJointDoctoralProgram.ShespecializesinHebrewBible,EarlyJudaismandtheDeadSeaScrollsandservesasco-editorofTheDeadSeaScrollsEditionsandStudiesontheTextsoftheDesertofJudahseries(Brill).CurrentlyasanNEHfellow,sheiscompletinganew

edition(translationandcommentary)ofTheCommunityRuleandofotherfragmentsfromCave1,nowfoundinJerusalemandAmman.EileenSchullerisProfessorEmeritaintheDepartmentofReligiousStudiesatMcmasterUniversity.Sincethe1980sshehasbeeninvolvedinthepublicationofhymnicandprayermanuscriptsfromthescrolls,includingthe4QcopiesoftheHodayotandthere-publicationof1QHainDJD40withHarmutStegemannMichaelSegalistheFatherTakejiOtsukiProfessorofBiblicalStudiesattheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem,wherehealsoservesasDeanoftheFacultyofHumanitiesandEditoroftheHebrewUniversityBibleProject.HeistheauthorofTheBookofJubilees:RewrittenBible,Redaction,IdeologyandTheology(2008);andDreams,Riddles,andVisions:Textual,Contextual,andIntertextualApproachestotheBookofDaniel(2016).HeiscurrentlywritingacommentaryontheBookofDanielfortheAnchorYaleBibleSeries.UntilJanuary2020PninaShorwasCuratorandHeadofDeadSeaScrolls(DSS)UnitattheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthority(IAA).PninawastrainedasanarchaeologistandhasbeenwiththeIAAthroughoutherarchaeologicalcareer,firstasafieldarchaeologist,theninmanagementpositions.SheheadedanddevelopedtheartifactsconservationlabsoftheIAAandin2010establishedandadvancedtheunitdedicatedtotheDSSattheIAA.EibertTigchelaar(PhDGroningen1994)isProfessoratKULeuven(Belgium)specializinginDeadSeaScrollsandAncientJudaism,andeditor-in-chiefoftheJournalfortheStudyofJudaism.Hispresentresearchfocusesonpalaeography,scribalactivitiesandpractices,andthescrollsasmaterialandliteraryproducts.EmanuelTov,Ph.D(1974),HebrewUniversity,JerusalemisJ.L.MagnesProfessoremeritusatthatUniversity.HehaspublishedmanymonographsonthetextualcriticismoftheHebrewandGreekBibleandQumranandwastheeditor-in-chiefoftheinternationalDeadSeaScrollsPublicationProject.EugeneUlrich,theJohnO’BrienprofessoremeritusofHebrewScripturesattheUniversityofNotreDame,wasChiefEditoroftheQumranBiblicalScrolls,editingsixvolumesofcriticaleditionsinDiscoveriesintheJudaeanDesert.HeistheauthorofTheDeadSeaScrollsandtheDevelopmentalCompositionoftheBibleandco-authorofTheDeadSeaScrollsBible:TheOldestKnownBibleTranslatedfortheFirstTimeintoEnglish.HeisamemberofthetranslationteamofboththeNewRevisedStandardVersionoftheBibleandtheNewAmericanBible.JoeUzielisthenewheadoftheDSSunitattheIsraelAntiquitiesDepartment.Priortohiscurrentposition,JoewasaresearcharchaeologistattheIAA,workingontheexcavationsinJerusalem'sholybasin-theWesternWallTunnelsandtheCityofDavid,fornineyears,andpublishingnumerousscholarlyarticlesonthesubjectofancientJerusalem.

AfterearningaPh.D.atHarvard(1976),JamesVanderKamtaughtatNorthCarolinaStateUniversity(1976-91)andtheUniversityofNotreDame(1991-2016)beforeretiring.HehaspublishedintheareasoftheDeadSeaScrollsandEarlyJewishLiterature,including1Enoch2andJubileesintheHermeneiaseries.CeciliaWassénisAssociateProfessorofNewTestamentatUppsalaUniversityinSweden.Herresearchfocusesonwomen,puritypraxis,andmealsintheDeadSeaScrolls.SheisalsoanexpertonthehistoricalJesus.Hernewbook,JesustheApocalypticProphet,withTobiasHägerland,willbepublishedbyT&TClark/BloomsburyPublishingnextyear.CanaWermanisanassociateprofessorintheDepartmentofJewishHistoryatBen-GurionUniversityoftheNegev.SheearnedherthreedegreesfromtheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem(1984;1987;1996).ProfessorWerman’sresearchcoversSecondTempleliteratureandthought,Tannaiticliterature,andearlyChristianity.ShehaswrittenanumberofbooksinHebrewincluding:ApocalypticLiteratureoftheSecondTemple(2003),RevealingtheHidden:InterpretationandHalachaintheDeadSeaScrolls(2011,withAharonShemesh),andTheBookofJubilees:IntroductionTranslationandCommentary(YadBen-ZviPress,2015).Shehasalsopublishednumerousarticlesinleadingjournals.MollyZahnisAssociateProfessorofReligiousStudiesattheUniversityofKansas.HerresearchinterestscenteronexploringthevarietyofwaysearlyJewishliteraturewascomposed,transmitted,interpreted,andauthorized.Hernewbook,GenresofRewritinginSecondTempleJudaism,willappearthissummer.