Adolfo Roitman (1957-), scholar

Adolfo Daniel Roitman is an Israeli scholar, at the Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.

E-mail contact: shrine@imj.org.il

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1957. PhD in Ancient Jewish Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Curator and director of the Shrine of the Book since 1994. Professor in Compared Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in Ancient Jewish Thought at the Schchter Institute of Jewish Studies.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Yom be-Kumran: ha-hayim be-kat Midbar Yehudah (1997 Roitman), book
  • Sectarios de Qumrán: Vida cotidiana de los esenios (2000 Roitman), book (Spanish ed.)

• Sod ha-Hekhal: be-`ikvot Megilat ha-Mikdash (2003 Roitman, Laderman), book
  • Envisioning the Temple: Scrolls, Stones, and Symbols (2003 Roitman, Laderman), book (English ed.)

• The Bible in the Shrine of the Book: From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Aleppo Codex (2006 Roitman), book

Edited volumes

• The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture (2011 Roitman, Schiffman), edited volume