Kesher Israel invites you to a lecture with George Washington University Professor Christopher Rollston:  "What are the Earliest Hebrew Inscriptions from the First Temple Period?" His lecture will be followed by a dessert reception. 

Professor Rollston is Department Chair, Professor of Biblical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the George Washington University. He is active in the American Society of Overseas Research and the Society of Biblical Literature (and has chaired and co-chaired many epigraphic sessions for the annual meetings of both).  He served for several years on the Governing Board of the American Society of Overseas Research, and has also served on the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of American Society of Overseas Research.  He is currently on the Society of Biblical Literatures’ executive board, and he is also currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature.  He is the co-editor (with Professor Eric Cline of George Washington University) of the Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research.  For almost two decades, he has been the editor of the journal MAARAV.  He has also functioned as a reviewer for a number of additional journals and presses.  In addition, for several years he served on a regular basis on Reaffirmation Committees (on-site and off-site) for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and also for the Association of Theological Schools.  Several years ago, Professor Rollston was a witness for the prosecution in the Israeli “Epigraphic Forgery Trial.”  More recently, he has served as an epigraphic consultant for National Geographic.

He has also lectured and delivered invited papers in a number of venues, including Princeton University, Yale University, Duke University, Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Brown University, Al-Quds University (Jerusalem), Emory University, Tel Aviv University, Vanderbilt University, Baylor University, the University of Wisconsin (Madison), the University of Michigan, DePaul University, and Amherst College.He enjoys foreign travel, African and Indian art, carving, and metallurgy, and the restoration of antique furniture, especially quarter-sawn white oak and mahogany.

Class made possible through the Dr. H. Harold Gelfand Memorial Institute of Adult Education.