| Event Information | |
| Title: | Lecture: "Unexpected and Unusual Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls" |
| Date: | Monday 3/18/2013 |
| Time: | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
| Where: |
Room C207  (map)
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| Summary: | Dr. John Kampen, the professor in the Dunn Chair of Biblical Interpretation at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, will present the Perspectives in Religion and Culture Lecture -- "Unexpected and Unusual Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls." |
| Details: |
Kampen is an internationally renowned scholar who has examined, interpreted, and published on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He wrote "Wisdom Literature" (2011), a volume in the Eerdmans Commentary Series on the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as numerous other books and articles on such topics as the Gospel of Matthew, the books of the Maccabees, Apocalypticism, and the Qumran community. He has been twice named a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow to the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.
The lecture is sponsored by the ECU Religious Faculty with the support of the David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professorship in Humanities. |
| Contact: | Calvin Mercer, Religious Studies Program, mercerc@ecu.edu |
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