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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Dead Sea Scrolls scholar (Book of Jubilees) -- James Vanderkam, at Notre Dame, IN since 1991

https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2022

Class IV - section 1 Philosophy & Religious studies

 

James Vanderkam, professor emeritus of Old Testament in Univ. of Notre Dame 

College of Arts & Letters (Theol. Dept.), will receive American

Academy of Arts and Sciences Scholars membership ( http://amacad.org/ ) 

along with 261 new inductees for 

work of substantial and excellent quality -- he was a co-editor of DJD (Discoveries

in the Judean Desert): the scrolls and manuscript fragments found around Qumran

(Israel near the Dead Sea).

Vanderkam published in 2018 a commentary on the ancient

Book of Jubilees (Fortress Press), revered by the Qumranites (some think Essene community).

https://www.nd.edu/stories/2022-aaas/


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