Ranieri Colloquium Examines ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60’

NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies held its 2008 Ranieri Colloquium in early March in the Silver Center’s Hemmerdinger Hall. The conference focused on “The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60,” and was co-sponsored by the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. It considered the Dead Sea Scrolls from a range of scholarly perspectives, and all the speakers were either on the NYU faculty or graduates of NYU.

Pictured, from left are Lawrence H. Schiffman, chair of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Sal Ranieri; Mary Ranieri; Matthew S. Santirocco, dean of the College of Arts and
Science and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies; Andrew Gross (University of Pittsburgh); Alex Jassen (University of Minnesota); Gary Rendsburg, (Rutgers University); Alexei Sivertsev (DePaul University); Shani Tzoref (Hebrew University); Jeffrey L. Rubenstein (NYU); Baruch Levine (NYU); Erik Larson (Florida International University); and Mark S. Smith (NYU).