The Dead Sea Scrolls: Still Relevant Today?

The Fine Arts Society is proud to welcome Dr. Martin Abegg back to the lectern to give an update on his earlier lecture on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dr. Abegg, an international authority on this subject, will chart the journey from the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 with special emphasis on research in the last twenty years.

Dr. Abegg graduated from Bradley University, where his father served as President from 1961 to 1993. His research on the Dead Sea Scrolls began at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1986 and continued at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, where he received the PhD in 1993.

Dr. Abegg teaches and co-directs the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia.

When and where to hear this lecture: Thursday, March 8, 2012, at 10:00 A.M. at the Lakeview Museum, 1125 W. Lake Ave., Peoria, Illinois.

Other programs in the Fine Arts Society's 2011-2012 Lecture series: "Doubly Blessed: Women Artists In The Midwest, 1840-1890" with Dr. Susan Weininger, "Printing On Stone Surfaces in Late Renaissance Italy: Indestructible Art or Asthetic Innovation" with Judith Mann, "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble--Design for Shakespeare's Works" with Virgil Johnson, "Renaissance Art" with Dr. Sarah Glover, "Enchanted Isles of The Renaissance" with Jeffrey A. Nigro, "Niagara Falls, Icon of the Sublime" with Dr. Elizabeth McKinsey, and "French Nineteenth Century Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art Dr. Eric Denker.

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