Knox College will hold a seminar in October on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto until January 2010.
Knox’s seminar will discuss how the scrolls have affected modern translations of the Old Testament, what the scrolls say about the world in which Jesus and his followers lived, and how research on the scrolls has brought Jewish and Christian scholars together. McMaster University professor Dr. Eileen Schuller is the keynote speaker. She is a member of the Dead Sea Scrolls editorial board and associate editor of the New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, and Dead Sea Scrolls Encyclopedia.
The first scrolls were discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd in a cave near the Dead Sea. The 207 scrolls represent nearly all of the books in the Hebrew Bible. They do not contain copies of the New Testament; there are very few texts in Greek and none mention Jesus, John the Baptist, or the early Christian community.
The October 24 event will also feature talks by two Knox College faculty, and includes lunch, a tour of the exhibit and a closing reception. For tickets call 416-978-6228. —Knox College
