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Public Presentation by Dr. Andrew Skinner

Posted: Apr. 02, 2007

  IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO – April 2, 2007 – The Museum of Idaho will be presenting Dr. Andrew C. Skinner, who will be giving a presentation on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the English Bible at Trinity Methodist Church (next door to the Museum of Idaho) on Wednesday, April 4th, at 7.00 pm.

Dr. Skinner was born and raised in Colorado.  He attended the University of Colorado where he earned his B.A. degree in history. He then earned an M.A. degree from the Iliff School of Theology in Jewish Studies and a Th.M. degree from Harvard in Biblical Hebrew.  He did graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.  His Ph.D. was awarded from the University of Denver in Near Eastern and European History, specializing in Judaism.

Dr. Skinner taught four years at Ricks College, and has filled three assignments at the BYU Jerusalem Center where he served as a faculty member and taught Near Eastern Studies.  Since September 2000 he has served as the Dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.  Prior to his current appointment, he served as chair of the department of Ancient Scripture at BYU.  He is the author or co-author of over 100 publications including Jerusalem: The Eternal City; New Testament Apostles Testify of Christ; Discoveries in the Judean Desert: The Unidentified Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 (which is an analysis of all the unidentified Hebrew and Aramaic Dead Sea Scroll texts); Scriptural Parables for the Latter Days, and Gethsemane.

 

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