Symposium on Scribal Cultures and Manuscripts

Program

14:15–16:00 Early Jewish and Christian Scribal Cultures and Manuscript Materiality:

Sidnie White Crawford, professor emerita of Classics and Religious Studies at the University Of Nebraska-Lincoln and honorary doctor at the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, “The Qumran scribal school and the materiality and dating of the Scrolls”

Tommy Wasserman, professor in New Testament studies at ALT School of Theology, “The Parting of the Manuscripts: Tracing Jewish Roots in Early Christian Scribal Traditions”

Public lectures followed by discussion. Open to biblical scholars and non-specialists alike

16:00–16:30 — Coffee Break

16:30–18:00 The Oxford Handbook of Textual Criticism of the Bible, Sidnie White Crawford & Tommy Wasserman (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2026:

Two 30-minute presentations on text-critical topics, followed by a discussion. Primarily for biblical scholars.