The University of Agder, in Norway, launches a great research project entitled “‘Biblical’ Texts Older than the Bible.” Three foreign scholars have been invited to take part in the inaugural session: Esther Eshel, Eibert Tigchelaar, and your servant.

I will thus be in Kristiansand on August 13–24 to work on unpublished Dead Sea scrolls, among other things. I will also give a lecture on Enochic literature in Second Temple Judaea, on August 22 at 3:45 PM.

More information on the project’s website.

SEE ALSO

The Lying Pen of Scribes: Research on Dead Sea Scrolls Forgeries in Norway The Scribe in the Biblical World, 17-19 June 2019 in Strasbourg Digital Palaeography and the Dead Sea Scrolls, in Groningen Inscribing the Sacred: Reading, Writing, and the Origins of the Bible as Book, in Denver Assessing Dead Sea Scrolls Authencity, in Berlin on August 8, 2017 Qumran After 70 Years, at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Paris Interview for Le Monde de la Bible on the Maresha ostraca The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Samaritan Pentateuch