Sunday (Preliminary Schedule)
1:00pm
Mandel Forum
Welcoming Remarks
Marc Brettler, Brandeis University
1:30-2:50
Room G12
Textual Development and Dating of Dead Sea Scroll Texts
Faculty Respondent: Yonder Gillihan, Boston College
The Damascus Document and the Dating of Biblical Texts
David Z. Moster, New York University, davidmoster@gmail.com
Writing the Other Letters: Paleography and the Greek Manuscripts from Qumran
Matthew Richey, University of Chicago, richeym@uchicago.edu
The Compositional History of Daniel 4 and the Authoritative Status of Daniel at Qumran
Christopher Anderson, Brandeis University, canders@brandeis.edu
Room G03
Personas in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Faculty Respondent: Michael Satlow, Brown University
Subterranean Fiery Punishment and the Giants in the Dead Sea Scrolls and 2 Peter and Jude: A Proposal of Origins
Clint Burnett, Boston College, burnetda@bc.edu
“His Dominion is in Darkness”: Zoroastrian Influences on the Development of Belial
Esther Brownsmith, Brandeis University, esther.brownsmith@gmail.com
The Woman of 4Q184
Alexis L. Felder, Boston University School of Theology, alfelder@bu.edu
3:10-4:30
Room G03
Dead Sea Scroll Methodologies and Approaches
Faculty Respondent: Jonathan Klawans, Boston University
Death of the Author, Resurrection of the Authoritative Voice: the Constructed Teacher of Righteousness and Jesus
Kimberly Bauser, Boston College, kimberly.bauser@bc.edu
Textual Development of the Qumran Pesharim
Bronson Brown-deVost, Brandeis University, bronson@brandeis.edu
A Postcolonial Reading of 1QpHab: A Resistance Literature
Benjamin Taufoua Laie, Claremont Lincoln University, benjamin.laie@cst.edu
Room G12
Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Religious and Cultural Developments
Faculty Respondent: Reuven Kimelman, Brandeis University
A Jewish Approach to Loans? Comparative Analysis of Documentary Papyri and Early Tannaitic Law
Nathan Schumer, Columbia University, nss2108@gmail.com
Preoccupied with Purity Law? Reading Mishnah Shabbat in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Sectarian Sabbath Rituals
Yonatan Miller, Harvard University, ymiller@fas.harvard.edu
The Evolution of Angels and the Problem of “Monotheism”
J. Andrew Sowers, Yale Divinity School, jsowers@harding.edu
5:00-6:00
Plenary Address Room G03
Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Lawrence H. Schiffman, Yeshiva University
6:00-6:30
Reception and Award
Mandel Forum