Public Presentation by Dr. Andrew Skinner

 
IDAHO
FALLS,
IDAHO – April 2, 2007 – The
Museum of Idaho will be presenting Dr. Andrew C. Skinner, who will be giving a
presentation on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the English Bible at
Trinity
Methodist
Church (next door to the

Museum of
Idaho) on Wednesday, April 4th, at 7.00
pm.

Dr. Skinner was born and
raised in

Colorado.  He attended the

University of
Colorado
where he earned his B.A. degree in history. He then earned an M.A. degree from the Iliff School of Theology in
Jewish Studies and a Th.M. degree from Harvard in Biblical Hebrew.  He did graduate work at
Hebrew
University in

Jerusalem,
Israel.  His Ph.D. was awarded from the

University of
Denver in Near Eastern and European
History, specializing in Judaism.

Dr. Skinner taught four years
at
Ricks
College,
and has filled three assignments at the

BYU
Jerusalem
Center where he served as
a faculty member and taught Near Eastern Studies.  Since September 2000 he has served as the
Dean of Religious Education at
Brigham
Young
University
in

Provo,
Utah.  Prior to his current appointment, he served
as chair of the department of Ancient Scripture at BYU.  He is the author or co-author of over 100
publications including Jerusalem: The Eternal City; New Testament Apostles
Testify of Christ; Discoveries in the Judean Desert: The Unidentified Fragments
from Qumran Cave 4 (which is an analysis of all the unidentified Hebrew and
Aramaic Dead Sea Scroll texts); Scriptural Parables for the Latter Days, and
Gethsemane.