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Daniel J. Harrington (1940-2014) was an American scholar. Entered the Jesuits in 1958 and was ordained in 1971. PhD (Harvard University). Professor of New Testament at Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Cambridge, MA). Editor of New Testament Abstracts, from 1972 to his death. See http://www.4enoch.org/wiki4/index.php?title=~_Daniel_J._Harrington_(1940-2014),_American_scholar

Additional papers from the 6th Enoch Seminar (2011). — “In this volume Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski collect together essays from leading international scholars on the books of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch. The literature of the Second Temple Period has become increasingly studied in recent years as scholars have begun to recognize the importance of these texts for ...

Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz (1924-2013) was a French scholar and a specialist in Qumran Studies.

Géza Vermès (1924-2013) was an Hungarian-born Jewish-British scholar, at the University of Oxford, England, UK. Géza Vermès was born in Mako, Hungary into a Jewish family that converted to Catholicism when he was a child. Both his parents were victims of the Holocaust. Vermes joined the Catholic priesthood after WW2, and remained a Catholic priest until 1957. He received his ...

Papers from the 6th Enoch Seminar (Milan 2011). — “The two Jewish works that are the subject of this volume, 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch, were written around the turn of the first century CE in the aftermath of the Roman destruction of the Second Temple. Both texts are apocalypses, and both occupy an important place in early Jewish literature ...

Frank Moore Cross (1921-2012) was an American scholar. PhD at Johns Hopkins University. Professor at Harvard, 1957-1992.

Papers from the 5th Enoch Seminar (Naples 2009).

Carlo Maria Martini (1927-2011) was an Italian scholar. Born in Turin, Italy. Ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1952. PhD in Fundamental Theology (1958) from the Pontifical Gregorian University. PhD in Biblical Studies from the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Professor (from 1962) and then rector (from 1969) of the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University (1978-1980). Archbishop of ...

Frederick J. Murphy (1949-2011) was an American scholar, Earned his PhD (1984) at Harvard University. He was Professor in the Dept. of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA), USA from 1983 to his death on Sept 13, 2011.

Alan F. Segal (1945-2011) was a Jewish-American scholar, at Columbia University (New York NY), USA. Alan F. Segal was born in Worcester, MA on August 2, 1945. He earned degrees from Amherst College (B.A., 1967), Brandeis University (M.A., 1969), Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Bachelor of Hebrew Letters, 1971), and Yale University (M.A., 1971; M.Phil., 1973; and Ph.D., 1975). ...