The Dead Sea Scrolls After Forty Years: Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution, October 27, 1990

James A. Sanders, who was the first Fulbright Scholar in religion and who helped launch the subdiscipline of biblical study called canonical criticism, has served on the faculties of the Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, and the Claremont School of Theology. Sanders has authored or edited more than show more twenty books, including The Monotheizing Process (Cascade Books, 2014) and The Canon Debate (2002). show less

Hershel Shanks is the founder and editor-in-chief of Biblical Archaeology Review, Bible Review, and Archaeology Odyssey.

James C. VanderKam, Ph.D. (1976), Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literature, Harvard University, is John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame.