Programme:
08.45 – 09.00 Registration and Welcome
09.00 – 10.00 Professor Eibert Tigchelaar (Leuven): The Cave 1 Hoyadot Scroll Materially and Spiritually
10.00 – 10.15 Break
10.15 – 11.15 Sarah Wisialowski: Leaders as Exemplars in the Community at Qumran
11.15 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.30 Elizabeth Stell: “Tell Me Your Dream so I May Understand” : Dream as Interpretation in the Genesis Apocryphon / Annie Calderbank: Divine Presence Over and Within: Temple Discourse in the Dead Sea Scrolls
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Rebekah Van Sant-Clark: Isaiah’s Poetics of Exile and Wilderness: The Afterlife of Isaiah 40:1-11 / Anna Krauss: How to Make Sense of a Gap? The omission of Psalms 104-111 in 4Q84
14.30 – 14.45 Break
14.45 – 15.45 Alexander McCarron: “Enoch, a Righteous Man”; Genesis 6:9 as Intertext in 4QEn (1 Enoch 1:2) / Daniel Schumann: The Eschatologization of the Gift of the Promised Land in 1 En. 1-5
15.45 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.00 Kenny Chi Kin Lei: Friends or Strangers? A Comparison between Pesher Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Matthew’s use of Hosea 11:1 / Yael Fisch: Midrash-Pesher in Qumran, Paul and the Tannaim
17.00 – 17.15 Break
17.15 – 18.15 Professor George Brooke (Manchester): Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship in Oxford: Past, Present and Future
18.15 – 18.30 Concluding remarks