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
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Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz (1924-2013)
Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz (1924-2013) was a French scholar and a specialist in Qumran Studies.
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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 ...
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Frank Moore Cross (1921-2012) was an American scholar. PhD at Johns Hopkins University. Professor at Harvard, 1957-1992.
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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 ...
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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.
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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). ...
Read More »Hanan Eshel (1958-2010)
Hanan Eshel (1958-2010) was an Israeli scholar. Received his PhD (1994) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. One of leading international specialists in the Dead Sea Scrolls, was professor in the Dept. of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Visiting professor at the Universities of Harvard, Michigan, and Oxford. Co-Founder and Co-Director of the ...
Read More »Pierre Grelot (1917-2009)
Pierre Grelot (1917-2009) was a French scholar. Catholic priest. Professor of New Testament and Aramaic at the Catholic Institute of Paris. Member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
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Martin Hengel (1926-2009) was a German scholar. Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism at the University of Tübingen, Germany, was one of the great scholars of ancient Judaism in the twentieth century. He was born in 1926 in Reutlingen, and studied in Tübingen and Heidelberg. His Doktorvater in Tübingen was Otto Michel. He finished his dissertation on the Zealots ...
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