This exhibition closed January 6, 2008.

Curator Biography

Risa Levitt Kohn, Ph.D., is the curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition. She is also the Director of the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University (SDSU) and an Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaism in SDSU’s Religious Studies department. She was the first to earn a doctorate in ancient history and Hebrew Bible from the University of California, San Diego. She is the past president of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Pacific Coast Region, and serves as the Chair of the SBL's Committee for the Status of Women in the Profession. Levitt Kohn's publications include A New Heart and a New Soul: Ezekiel, the Exile and the Torah (Sheffield Academic Press). She has lectured extensively on subjects including the world of the Hebrew Bible, Jewish and Christian Origins and Judaism. She has also served as Scholar-in-Residence for the Biblical Archaeology Society Travel/Study Program and was recently honored with a national Regional Scholar Award from the Society of Biblical Literature. She is currently working with Dr. Rebecca Moore on The True Vine: How the First Jews and Christians Read the Bible, to be published later this year by Roman and Littlefield.