BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16429-97d79b0cae3f0e76bbb520a4b5b6d51e@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260515T213631Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T190000 SUMMARY:“Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of Professional Scribes” DESCRIPTION:\nIn his recent book\, Who Really Wrote the Bible\, Schniede wind traces the history of ancient scribal communities. In this talk\, h e brings this story up to the end of the Second Temple period and the De ad Sea Scrolls\, where scribes become professionals who write\, copy\, a nd produce biblical literature and scrolls for early synagogues.\n\nWill iam Schniedewind is professor of Biblical studies at UCLA\, and the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. He received his doctoral degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University\, has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew Univers ity and a Research Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Re search in Jerusalem\, and is the Associate Director of the excavations a t Tell Shaddud. He served for many years as the Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He is the author of nume rous articles and seven books including How the Bible Became a Book (Cam bridge University Press\, 2004)\, A Social History of Hebrew (Yale Unive rsity Press\, 2013)\, The Finger of the Scribe (Oxford University Press\ , 2019)\, and Who Really Wrote the Bible: the Story of the Scribes (Prin ceton University Press\, 2024).\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.p su.edu/event/who-really-wrote-the-bible-the-story-of-professional-scribe s/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In his recent b ook, Who Really Wrote the Bible, Schniedewind traces the histor y of ancient scribal communities. In this talk, he brings this story up to the end of the Second Temple period and the Dead Sea Scrolls, where s cribes become professionals who write, copy, and produce biblical litera ture and scrolls for early synagogues.

William Schniedewind is pro fessor of Biblical studies at UCLA, and the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Directo r of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. He received his doctora l degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, ha s been a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University and a Research Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, and is the Associate Director of the excavations at Tell Shaddud. He served for many years as the Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He is the author of numerous articles and seven bo oks including How the Bible Became a Book (Cambridge University Press, 2004), A Social History of Hebrew (Yale University Pres s, 2013), The Finger of the Scribe (Oxford University Press, 20 19), and Who Really Wrote the Bible: the Story of the Scribes ( Princeton University Press, 2024).

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/who-really-wrote-the- bible-the-story-of-professional-scribes/

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