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THE JUDAIC STUDIES DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS SERIES in cooperation with The Center for Humanities and Digital Research and Central Florida Hillel announce a public lecture with:
 Robert Eisenman
professor of Middle East Religions and Archaeology
Director of the Institute for the Study of Judeo-Christian Origins
California State University, Long Beach
The True Story of Freeing the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Insider's Account
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at noon
Classroom 1 Building, room 105
Robert Eisenman is professor of Middle East Religions and Archaeology and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Judeo-Christian Origins at California State University, Long Beach. He has a Ph. D. from Columbia University in Middle East Languages and Cultures and Islamic Law. Eisenman is a Visiting Senior Member of Linacre College at Oxford University, a member of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. He has written many books, such as James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998), The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians (1996), Islamic Law in Palestine and Israel: A History of the Survival of Tanzimat and Shari'ah (1978), and is co-editor of The Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1989) and The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (1992). In 1991-92, he was the Consultant to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, when it decided to open its historical documents and allow free access for all scholars to the previously unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls.
THE LECTURE IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND IS FREE OF CHARGE
Parking passes should be obtained in the yellow parking pay machines available in the parking lots and garages.
More Information
For further information, contact:
The Office of Judaic Studies
(407) 823-5039 or 823-5129
Colbourn Hall 201E
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-1992
Funded by grants from Friends of Judaic Studies and The Center for Humanities and Digital Research
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