The Theophilus Center

for the Study of Ancient Judaism & Christianity

Events

Past Events

Fall Lecture 2025: Scrolls and Sectarianism at Qumran

Date: October 25, 2025

Location: Austin, Texas

Andrew H. Waller gives an overview of the Qumran community and discusses how Qumran and the documents discovered there provide important data points that help us to understand early Judaism and the New Testament.

Summer Lecture 2025: Ben-Hur, Josephus, and the Walking Dead

Date: August 2, 2025

Location: Austin, Texas

Andrew H. Waller examines the presentation of leprosy in Lew Wallace's classic novel Ben-Hur, highlighting Wallace's misunderstandings of leprosy in both biblical law and early Judaism and the subsequent influence of Ben-Hur on popular conceptions of Hansen's Disease.

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