'Dead Sea Scrolls' theme for free online event
Starting July 13, videos in Portuguese will provide details on the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century.
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THE Dead Sea Scrolls Week – a series of four videos that will address various aspects of one of the most important documents in the history of religions – will be held on the 13th, 15th, 16th and 18th of this month, with free online transmissions in Portuguese. The promotion is from the Moriah International Center, an institution dedicated to cultural and academic tourism in Israel, in partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. To participate, you must register on the event's website.
The series will have the presence of one of the great experts in Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologist Oren Gutfeld, who in 2017 participated in the discovery of the 12th cave in the Qumran region with fragments of jars used by the same community that produced the documents – probably the so-called Essenes.
THE Dead Sea Scrolls Week it will also have the participation of anthropologist Adolfo Roitman, director of the Sanctuary of the Book of the Israel Museum, in Jerusalem - where the documents are currently found -, and one of the curators of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and sociologist Ariel Horovitz, director of the Moriah International Center.
In the first episode of the series, on the 13th, Roitman will talk about the history of the manuscripts, their discovery and the lives of the inhabitants of Qumran over 2000 years ago. On the 15th, an exclusive interview with Oren Gutfeld will be broadcast, in which he will give details about the discovery of Cave 12 of Qumran. On the 16th, there will be a tour by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Finally, on the 18th, Adolfo Roitman will give a lecture The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Revolution in Biblical Studies. All episodes will be released from 10 am.
The discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls it is considered the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century. They were accidentally found in 1947, in caves at Qumran, in the Dead Sea region of Israel. These are hundreds of texts preserved by a community that lived in that region between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century after Christ. The texts reproduce books from the Bible Hebrew, community rules, and apocryphal volumes.
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- Dead Sea Scrolls Week
- Date: July 13th, 15th, 16th and 18th
- Online event.
- Free registration on this page
