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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