This evening session, organized by the Orion Center, was the opening plenary session of the Seventeenth
World Congress, held at the Hebrew University.
The session was chaired by Esther Chazon;
lectures by Devorah Dimant (Haifa University), Hindy Najman (Oxford University), Michael Segal (Hebrew
University), and Emanuel Tov (Hebrew University) give a multifaceted picture of advances in biblical
and Second Temple studies made possible by scrolls research.
A video recording of the session may be accessed at: https://youtu.be/NM6s1eM1fkU.