[Antiquitas] Invitation to CSTT Lecture Series (Thursday, December 15 at 4:15pm): "The Qumran Texts and the History of the Biblical Text" - Dr. Pablo Torijano Morales

[Dixon, Helen M]

Dear colleagues -


You are cordially invited (with apologies for cross posting) to the last winter lecture in the Centre of Excellence in "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions" (CSTT) Lecture Series, to be held this coming Thursday, 15 December, from 4:15pm - 6pm in the 5th floor Faculty Room (Vuorikatu 3):


"The Qumran Texts and the History of the Biblical Text"
Dr. Pablo Torijano Morales
Associate Professor, Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

The year 2017 marks 70 years since the first discovery of scrolls in the Dead Sea. Next year will also mark 500 years from several other major events in the history of the text of the Bible: in 1517, the first Renaissance Polyglot Bible, the Complutensian Polygloth, was completed, and the first Rabbinical Bible, edited by Felix Pratensis, went to press. Yet in the same year, the Protestant reformation of Luther began, and in 1518 Melanchton launched the call for going back to the sources, to the biblical texts in their original languages.

Since then, the biblical texts have been the object of polemics between Jews and Christians, Catholics and Protestants, Hebraists and Hellenists. The research of the last 25 years on the biblical and non-biblical manuscripts of Qumran has radically changed our knowledge about the history of the biblical text in the centuries that preceded and followed the turn of the Common Era. Consequently, it is necessary to pose anew the old questions and problems which the Renaissance scholars fiercely debated: the reliability of the Hebrew text and its degree of textual fluidity or stability, the trustworthiness of the old versions (especially the Septuagint), and the range of the Canon.

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The purpose of the CSTT Lecture Series is to provide a forum for individual members and guests of the CSTT Centre of Excellence to communicate their research to one another, as well as to the larger community of scholars of the ancient world at the University of Helsinki. We welcome all who are interested to attend!


Helen M. Dixon

Postdoctoral Researcher

Center of Excellence in "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions"

Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/sacredtexts/about-cstt/

https://helsinki.academia.edu/HelenDixon
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