Qumran Scrolls Quotes & Sayings

Life may bring you to your knees; pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy! BE the solution! — Steve Maraboli

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws. — Ben Whishaw

I am interested in the literature and religion of ancient Israel. I focus on biblical law in its ancient Near Eastern context and on the way that biblical law was later reinterpreted in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple literature. I have also explored the relation of the Bible to later western intellectual history. In my latest book, A More Perfect Torah: At the Intersection of Philology and Hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll, I explore the relationship between biblical composition history and its reception history at Qumran and in rabbinic literature.

At the University of Minnesota, I have department affiliations with the Center for Jewish Studies and the Program in Religious Studies and am also an affiliated faculty member of the Law School. — Bernard M. Levinson

The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy. — Michael Chabon

He (her son) is just like his father, doesn't listen to a word I say! — Logan Crowe

They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings. — Brandon Sanderson

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality. — Dan B. Allender