Season 2: Episode 12 | Sister Eileen Schuller | The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible

In this episode, Sister Eileen Schuller is interviewed by CBS ambassador Andrew Stirling. 

A Catholic nun, one of the translators of the Dead Sea Scrolls, featured on the front page of the New York Times, learned Hebrew & Aramaic in her twenties and yet is one of the most humble and earnest teachers ever. She is nothing short of inspiring.

Dr. Eileen Schuller is a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Sister Schuller is an official editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls and has been one of Canada’s most respected Scripture scholars for the last half century since completing her doctoral studies at Harvard University. 

Much of Dr. Schuller’s scholarly career has centred around the Dead Sea Scrolls—working to ensure their careful study, analysis and publication, and helping people to understand both their content and their importance in the larger field of modern Biblical study. She is one of the team of editors who helped to complete the publication of the Scrolls in the 1990s, and she regularly writes and lectures on them around the world, both for her academic colleagues and for non-specialist audiences. Much of her work has focused on non-canonical Psalms, on the Hodayot (hymns of praise) from the Scrolls, and on women in the Bible.

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Learn more about Sister Eileen Schuller:

McMaster University: socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/people/schuller-eileen#biography