AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

Adolfo Roitman, a native of Argentina, holds a Licenciado from the University of Buenos Aires, an M.A. in Comparative Religion, and a Ph.D. in Ancient Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also an ordained conservative rabbi. He is a lecturer at several universities in Israel and has been a Henry Luce Visiting Professor at the University of Hartford, as well as a visiting scholar at Virginia Tech, New York University, Tufts University, Texas Christian University, and many other institutions throughout the U.S. and Latin America. He is the author of four books including, The Bible in the Shrine of the Book: From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Aleppo Codex as well as numerous articles. His fields of research include, in addition to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Jewish Literature, Religion and Thought; Early Biblical Interpretation; and Comparative Religion.