Please Join us for the annual Benefactors' Lecture. Guest speaker Jodi Magness will speak on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the subject of Magness’s award-winning book.

In 1946-1947, the first Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by accident near the site of Qumran. Eventually the remains of approximately 1000 scrolls were found in 11 caves surrounding Qumran.  In this slide-illustrated lecture, Prof Magness will examine the meaning and significance of the scrolls, which were deposited in the caves by members of a Jewish sect who lived at Qumran.

Jodi Magness (www.JodiMagness.org) is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Since 2002, she has been the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  

Free and open to the Public.