Meyers Leaves Annenberg Research Institute; Dead Sea Scrolls Project on Track

Eric M. Meyers has stepped down as director of the Annenberg Research Institute (ARI), a little more than a year after assuming the position. Meyers will return to Duke University, where he is director of Duke University’s Center for Judaic Studies. He is also president of the American Schools of Oriental Research and editor of its semi-scholarly quarterly, Biblical Archaeologist. Until a new director is chosen, the acting director is William M. Brinner, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of ARI’s board of trustees.

Each year ARI grants fellowships to 13 to 15 scholars from around the world, who come to the institute to do research for six months or a year on a particular subject. The subject on which the institute’s fellows will be working in 1992–1993 is the Dead Sea Scrolls. This program will continue, despite Meyers’ departure, and its seminars will be conducted by Lawrence H. Schiffman, professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University.