Marinus de Jonge (1925-2016) was a Dutch scholar, Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christian Literature at Leiden University from 1966 to 1990. He gave an important contribution not only to New Testament research, but also to the study of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. He focused in particular on the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, arguing in numerous publications that ...

Joseph A. Fitzmyer (1920-2016) passed away on Christmas Eve 2016. He was an American Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus and professor emeritus at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. A Biblical scholar and one of the editors of the Jerome Biblical Commentary (1990), he will also be remembered for his numerous contributions to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second ...

Dr. Flint was a world-renowned scholar on the Dead Sea Scrolls and a Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University.

Jacob Neusner passed away on October 8, 2016. A brilliant mind, he changed for ever our way of understanding ancient Judaism. ברוך דיין האמת

Jack T. Sanders (1935-2016) was an American scholar. Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon, USA.

James M. Robinson (1924-2016) was Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University. Founder and director of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. Widely known for his pioneering work on the Q Gospel and the Nag Hammadi codices.

Helmut Koester, professor of New Testament at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), USA, passed away on January 1, 2016.

A German scholar and feminist theologian. See http://www.4enoch.org  

Heikki Räisänen (1941-2015) was a Finnish scholar. Born in Helsinki, Räisänen received his doctorate in 1969 at the University of Helsinki. He was professor of New Testament studies at the University of Helsinki from 1974 until his retirement (2006). He was internally known for his studies on Paul and the New Testament. Räisänen published his memoirs in Finnish in 2014 ...

Marcus J. Borg (1942-2015) was an American scholar, Professor of Religion at Oregon State University., and a fellow of the Jesus Seminar.