Alison Schofield, PhD

Work on the scrolls is passing into the hands of a new generation of scholars, while various key projects continue to draw NEH support. In 2019, a $300,000 grant was awarded to Alison Schofield, associate professor of religious and Judaic studies at the University of Denver, for a project that will produce a new scholarly edition and English translations of the first scrolls found in Cave 1, which thus far have been published only in French. This endeavor will use scroll fragments unavailable for the previous edition and employ state-of-the-art photographic technology. It will provide new introductions and commentary to further enhance our understanding of the Bible as well as the origins of Christianity and its relationship to Judaism.

Alison Schofield, professor at University of Denver for 13 years, is a scrolls expert, traveling often to the Holy Land for excavations and study, and lecturing on thems this item about? What makes it interesting? Write a catchy description to grab your audience's attention...

A record of laws, customs, and beliefs in the ancient middle east are in Denver. The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit opens this Friday at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Dr. Alison Schofield is a scholar and specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, here to speak about this ancient community behind these texts.

A DU professor is one of three editors working on a new translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls - manuscripts dating back over 2,000 years, which include laws, poetry and some of the earliest biblical documents.

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One American archaeologist is trying to crack the Dead Sea Scroll code. 

Alison Schofield, a professor of religious and Judaic studies from the University of Denver, is working on a new translation of the ancient scroll. She hopes to get a rare look at Judaism and Christianity from the time of Jesus.

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The 15-volume series, known as Dead Sea Scrolls Editions, will feature improved reconstructions of previously published texts and some texts that have not been published before. It will be published by the Dutch firm Brill Publishers.  Falk, who is Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies at Penn State, is a recognized expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, specializing in the analysis of papyrus fragments and prayer texts. His co-editors on the project will be Martin Abegg Jr., recently retired from Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, and Alison Schofield of the University of Denver.

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Decades ago, archaeologists found rolls of dusty manuscripts dating to the 1st century AD hidden in caves in Israel. But one of these manuscripts wasn't written on leather or papyrus - it was inscribed on a copper scroll! Scholars believe the copper scroll is an inventory list of treasures from Jerusalem's Second Temple, and holds clues to their whereabouts. But where is the treasure today? In his search, Josh rappels into caves outside Qumran, creates his own copper scroll, and uses ground-penetrating radar inside a newly excavated tunnel hundreds of yards underground in search of the lost treasures of the Copper Scroll.