Amber (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ambermae) wrote,@ 2008-08-27 21:06:00 |
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Awaking my brain
Tonight I had the privilege of attending a lecture at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences thanks to a kind and generous (and lucky, she won the tickets) former co-worker. The museum is running a many month long exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which is huge for this area. I haven't yet been to the exhibit, but tonight's lecture was awesome.
The speaker was a very animated professor Lawrence Schiffman, from NYU. He was great! I couldn't possibly replicate here the many wonderful points he made, but I learned so much about the history of Judaism at the time of the scrolls -- a subject I've been more and more wanting to study.
There are many more lectures coming up as part of this exhibit, and I'm hoping to make it to a couple more (though I might have to pay for the next ones).
Tonight I had the privilege of attending a lecture at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences thanks to a kind and generous (and lucky, she won the tickets) former co-worker. The museum is running a many month long exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which is huge for this area. I haven't yet been to the exhibit, but tonight's lecture was awesome.
The speaker was a very animated professor Lawrence Schiffman, from NYU. He was great! I couldn't possibly replicate here the many wonderful points he made, but I learned so much about the history of Judaism at the time of the scrolls -- a subject I've been more and more wanting to study.
There are many more lectures coming up as part of this exhibit, and I'm hoping to make it to a couple more (though I might have to pay for the next ones).
