Dead Sea Scrolls scholar to speak at CLU

A leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls will give a free lecture at 4 p.m. Tues., Nov. 6 at Samuelson Chapel on the campus of California Lutheran University, 60 W. Olsen Road in Thousand Oaks.

James VanderKam will speak about the Dead Sea Scrolls and early Christianity. He will address the similarities and differences between the contents of the scrolls and the New Testament and other early Christian writings.

VanderKam is a professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He was a consulting editor for many of the volumes in "Discoveries in the Judean Desert," the official publication series of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The religious scholar is the chief editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature and has written or edited more than 25 books and 200 articles.

The religion department is sponsoring the event. For more information, call Samuel Thomas at (805) 493-3693 or e-mail sthomas@callutheran.edu.