About:
Professor Aharon Shemesh of the Department of Talmud, Bar-Ilan University is an expert in Talmudic Literature and the Dead Sea Scroll. He is the author of Punishments and Sins: From Scripture to the Mishnah, Magens Press 2003; Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis, University of California Press 2009, and (with Cana Werman) Legalot Nistarot: Exegesis and Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Bialik Institute 2011.