On Tuesday, September 29, at 5:00 p.m., Professor Geza Vermes will deliver a public lecture, “The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Miraculous Discovery and True Significance,” in the Hill Memorial Library lecture hall.
Dr. Vermes is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. He has edited the Journal of Jewish Studies since 1971 and in 1991 was appointed director of the Oxford Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (1985) and of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (2001). He is the author of more than a dozen books on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism, Christianity, and the life and religion of Jesus.
Sponsored by the LSU Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies and the LSU Libraries, this lecture is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow.
