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Unwinding: Molly Zahn tackles the changing text of the Dead Sea Scrolls


Unwinding: Molly Zahn tackles the changing text of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Molly Zahn with a camera around her neck by a body of water with text reading 'Dead Sea Scrolls scholar'

Can religious texts be changed by the scribe copying them down? Associate Professor of Religious Studies Molly Zahn's new book Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism explores the evolution of religious texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls. 

I am Seeking: Nicole Hodges Persley


I am Seeking: Nicole Hodges Persley

Nicole Hodges Persley

Our new video series, I am Seeking, highlights what our faculty are seeking with their research. From finding new ways to treat addiction, to looking for signs of alien life in rocks on earth, or searching for new ways to diagnose cancer, our faculty are innovators and explorers seeking answers and solutions to a myriad of questions.

Unwinding with Hannah Britton: Anti-trafficking Researcher


Unwinding with Hannah Britton: Anti-trafficking Researcher

Hannah Britton, anti-trafficking researcher

 

 

What does human trafficking look like? Most of us have seen stories of captivity play out on big or small screen with familiar casts of villains and victims. Compelling drama, perhaps, but the reality is far more complicated, and closer to home, than we might like to imagine. Make no mistake, says KU researcher Hannah Britton: it’s happening in the Heartland, and often in plain sight.

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