Presented by San Diego School of Christian Studies

Cost is $10/session - Free for full-time students with ID

Location for this lecture: The Trotter Chapel (see Campus map)

Register online by 5/14

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents and preserve evidence of great diversity in late Second Temple Judaism. The scrolls are considered to be one of the most important archaeological finds in modern times. Dr. Kohn, who is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the Dead Sea Scrolls, will bring us up to date on the latest research of the scrolls.

Speaker: Risa Levitt Kohn, Ph. D., San Diego State University.

 Dr. Risa Levitt Kohn is Professor of The Hebrew  Bible and Judaism at San Diego State University, and was awarded the first Doctorate from UC, San Diego in Ancient History and Hebrew Bible. She is past president of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Pacific Coast Region, she serves as Chair of its Committee for the Status of Women  in the Profession. Her work includes A New Heart and a New Soul: Ezekiel, The Exile and the Torah and she co-authored A Portable God, the Origin of Judaism and Christianity. She lectures extensively on subjects including the world of the Hebrew Bible, Jewish and Christian Origins, and Judaism.