Yigael Yadin (1917-1984) was an Israeli scholar. Yadin led the excavations at Masada. Published the editio princeps of the Temple Scroll.

Alejandro Díez Macho (1916-1984) was a Spanish scholar. Díez Macho was born in Villafría de la Peña (Palencia, Spain) in May 1916. He joined the the Roman Catholic Church in 1932 and began to study theology in the Gregorian University of Rome in 1935, though he was forced to interrupt his studies due to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). In ...

Annie Jaubert (1912-1980) was a French scholar and a specialist in Qumran Studies.

Samuel Sandmel (1911-1979) was a Jewish-American scholar. Born in Dayton, OH on September 11, 1911. After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1932, received his rabbinical training at Hebrew Union College and was ordained in 1937. Studied New Testament at Duke University and then Yale, where in 1949 he completed his PhD and began his teaching career. From 1949-1952 ...

Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) was a Jewish-Italian scholar. A specialist in Hellenistic Judaism and Professor at the University of Turin, moved to England in 1938, following the introduction of the Racial Laws in Italy, to teach at Oxford University and University College, London.

Roland de Vaux (1903-1970) was a French Domenican priest and scholar. From 1934 until his death lived in Jerusalem at the Ecole Biblique. Led the excavation of Qumran (1951-56) and the study of the manuscripts, becoming one of the major supporters of the Essene Hypothesis.

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a German Alsatian scholar, theologian, musician, philosopher and physician. Born January 14, 1875 in Kayserberg, Alsace-Lorraine, then a German province. A world-class organist who specialized in the music of Bach, Schweitzer gave concerts throughout Europe. Studied philosophy and theology at Tübingen, receiving his doctorate in 1899. His dissertation at the Protestant theological faculty at Strasburg, Geschichte ...

Charles Guignebert (1867-1939) was a French scholar, a pupil of Joseph-Ernest Renan, and from 1919 a professor of History of Christianity at Sorbonne University. Guignebert followed a strictly rationalist approach to ancient sources, without any concession to the theses of the religious apologetics.

Wilhelm Bousset (1865-1920) was a German scholar.

Claude Goldsmid Montefiore (1858-1938) was a Jewish-British scholar and rabbi, leader of English Liberal Judaism, in 1890 founder and editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Unusual for the time and energy he devoted to the study of Christianity, and for his sympathetic attitude towards Jesus and Paul. Forerunner of the Jewish-Christian dialogue.