“What Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Teach us About the Bible?”
+ JUNE 28, 6:30 P.M., HUGHES LIBRARY COMMUNITY ROOM

Sidnie White Crawford—author of Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2019) which was the winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s “Best Popular Book on Archaeology” in 2021—will offer a presentation on what the Dead Sea Scrolls teach us about the Bible on June 28, at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome!

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Sidnie White Crawford is Willa Cather Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism emerita at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Visiting Scholar (Dept. of Bible) at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Her latest book is The Text of the Pentateuch: Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls (De Gruyter 2022). Her book Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2019) was the winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s “Best Popular Book on Archaeology” (2021) and the Frank Moore Cross Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research (2019). Crawford served as a general editor (Hebrew Bible, Deuterocanon) for the 30-year review of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible undertaken by the National Council of Churches (released in 2022). She is currently Chair of the Old Testament Editorial Board for Hermeneia: A Commentary Series (Fortress Press), and Board Chair Emerita of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Sidnie now lives in Stroudsburg, PA with her husband Dan and her cat Mollie.