Date: September 3, 2009
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Peters Educational Center
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Peters Educational Center
Phebe McClatchyConley Lecture
The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jodi Magness, Ph. D.
Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Magness, noted Religious Studies scholar and anthropologist, will survey the archaeological remains at Qumran and discuss their relationship to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Magness participated on 20 different excavations in Israel and Greece, including co-directing the 1995 excavations in the Roman siege works at Masada. From 1997-99 she co-directed excavations at Khirbet Yattir in Israel. From 2003-2007, Professor Magness co-directed excavations in the late Roman fort at Yotvata, Israel. Professor Magness’ book The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002) won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for Best Popular Book in Archaeology in 2001-2002 and was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Book for 2003” by Choice Magazine. Professor Magness’ book The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003) was awarded the 2006 Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the category of non-fiction on the archaeology of Israel.
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