Professor Analyzes Scrolls

A crowd of 60 members of the Jewish community of Manchester, England, heard a lecture on the Dead Sea scrolls, from one of the world’s leading scholars on the topic, New York University professor Lawrence H. Schiffman.

Schiffman, who serves as chair of NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and a member of the university’s Centers for Ancient and Near Eastern Studies, gave a pre-Shavuot address at the Beis Menachem Community Centre – a Chabad-Lubavitch educational institution in Manchester – for the L’Chaim Jewish Learning Institute, an adult-education program directed by Rabbi Levi Cohen.

In his lecture, Schiffman focused on what is known as the Temple Scroll, one of the collection’s complete scrolls which contains, among other things, instructions on the building of the Temple and the order of its sacrifices.