Philosophy Workshop: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the great outdoors

This workshop will introduce participants to a cutting-edge research project on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Rural Economy of Judea and beyond. Professor Charlotte Hempel will invite you to explore the Dead Sea Scrolls and see them in a new light.

Since the discovery of around a thousand Dead Sea Scrolls between 1947 and 1956, scholarship has focused on the scribal environment that produced the texts. But previously neglected evidence points ‎us to rural settings and ‎labour that have been overlooked.‎

Charlotte Hempel is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary and, with George Brooke, of T&T Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dead Sea Discoveries.

For any queries about this workshop, please email our Learning Officer, Ellie Hill.

*Tickets for this talk include free admission to Winterbourne House and Garden. There is a limited number of tickets available, and they must be pre-booked.

This talk is funded by The Royal Institute of Philosophy.