Speakers:
W. F. ALBRIGHT
DAVID FREEDMAN
Editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature
F. M. CROSS of Harvard Divinity School
JOHN STRUCNELI.
Subjects: Jewish Religious Life at the time of Christ: Origin of Gnosticism; Influences on the New Testament
W. F. Albright , Emeritus Professor of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins University, who is widely regarded as the doyen of Semitic studies in America, was recently in this country with two of his younger American colleagues. In this programme they talk to John Strugnell , who 11 preparing fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls for publication. Apart from the subjects stated; they consider the sometimes questioned soundness of paleography as a too] for dating these manuscripts.