2022 Date Name Affiliation 26–30 June Joseph Scales Independent scholar/University of Birmingham 2020 Date Name Affiliation 12–14 March Eibert Tigchelaar KU Leuven 7–15 March Stephen A Reed University of Jamestown 20–24 February Hilda Deborah NTNU 2019 Date Name Affiliation 1 August – 30 November Nina Burleigh Newsweek ninaburleigh.com 1 August – 30 September Anastasia Vatousiadi… Read More International Guests
Spring 2022 9 May, 4 pm Don Verdean Hired by an ambitious small-town pastor to find sacred relics in the Holy Land, a self-proclaimed Biblical archaeologist comes up short and his attempt to cover up his failure fuels a comic conspiracy from the filmmaking team behind Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre. DON VERDEAN stars Sam… Read More Movie Club
[First version: 20 December 2016] We have constructed a tentative timeline of acquisitions using Knightlab Timeline JS. Comments and corrections are appreciated. Årstein Justnes & Ludvik A. Kjeldsberg
The Lying Pen of Scribes arranges brown-bag seminars at the University of Agder, Campus Kristiansand, which is a good opportunity to engage in scholarly discussion. Dates, room number, and program are listed in the table below. Autumn 2019 If nothing else is indicated, the seminars take place between 12:00 am and 12:45 pm. Date… Read More Brown-Bag Seminars
By Ludvik A. Kjeldsberg [First published: 27 May 2018] Between 2002 and 2018, there have been more than 40 exhibitions of post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like fragments, mostly in the United States, but also in Singapore, Germany, the Vatican, and in South America. The table below is an attempt to list all the exhibits that have… Read More Exhibitions Featuring Post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments
By Ludvik A. Kjeldsberg and Årstein Justnes [First published: 2 Sep 2019] [N]ever have I imagined that an item of my collection would be published on the front page of the New York Times, would have more than a million search results in the internet, would be the subject of many articles and books, would… Read More Exhibitions Featuring the Gabriel Stone: A Chronological List
University of Agder, Monday 22 October 2018, room A7-006. Programme 10.15–11.30: New Evidence for the Date and Provenance of P.Ryl. 3.457 (P52) Brent Nongbri, Honorary Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney 11.30–11.45: Coffee and tea 11.45–12.30: Historical Contexts of Forgeries: The Philippine-American Case Christa Wirth, University of Agder 12.30–13.30: Lunch 13.30–14.15: Not even close. The… Read More God’s Library, Gabriel’s Stone, and Forgers’ Bookshelves: On Dating, Faking, and Trafficking
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