Lecture: At the Crossroads: Second Temple Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Congregation Agudath Israel, the First Presbyterian Church of Caldwell, Notre Dame Catholic Church and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Essex Fells are proud to co-host two pre-eminent Dead Sea Scroll Scholars for a series of lectures in February 2013.  Professor Lawrence Schiffman, the Vice Provost of Yeshiva University in New York City, and Professor James VanderKam, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend , Indiana, two of the world’s foremost authorities on Second Temple Judaism, Intertestamental Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls, will be delivering a series of lectures on these subjects and on the implications for Jews and Christians of Jesus having been a Jew.