Every second Wednesday, The Lying Pen of Scribes arranges brown-bag seminars at the University of Agder, Campus Kristiansand. 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 Room Program August 14 A7 001 The Holy… Read More Brown-Bag Seminars
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
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
2019 Date Name Affiliation 1 August – 30 November Nina Burleigh Newsweek ninaburleigh.com 1 August – 30 September Anastasia Vatousiadi International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki 15–21 March Morag Kersel DePaul University 24 February – 2 March Michael Press Freelance writer & editor 6–9 January Rick Bonnie University of Helsinki 2018 Date Name Affiliation 21–28 October Brent… Read More International Guests
Spring 2019 January 16, 7 pm The Bible on Trial: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt “Set in a modern-day courtroom, The Bible on Trial: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt examines the evidence of history, archeology, and the testimony of early followers of Jesus in its quest to determine the reliability and accuracy of the Bible’s message. The… 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
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
