short name
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"Gene") Ulrich (born November 5, 1938) is an American
Dead Sea scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls (also the Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at the Qumran Caves in what was then Mandatory Palestine, near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the nor ...
scholar and the John A. O'Brien
Professor
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emeritus
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Theology
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in the Department of Theology at the
University of Notre Dame
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. He is chief editor of the biblical texts of the Dead Sea scrolls and one of the three general editors of the Scrolls International Publication Project. Ulrich has worked under two editors in chief on the scrolls project, namely
John Strugnell
John Strugnell (May 25, 1930, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England – November 30, 2007, Boston, Massachusetts) became, at 23, the youngest member of the team of scholars led by Roland de Vaux, formed in 1954 to edit the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerus ...
and
Emanuel Tov
Emanuel Tov, ( he, עמנואל טוב; born September 15, 1941, Amsterdam, Netherlands as Menno Toff) is a Dutch Israeli, emeritus J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible Studies in the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has ...
.
Biography
Eugene Ulrich was born in
Louisville, Kentucky
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.
Education
Ulrich has the following degrees: Litt.B.,
Xavier University
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. From 1964 he holds his Ph.L. from Loyola University. In 1970 he earned his M.Div. at
Woodstock College
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. He then entered
Harvard University
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and obtained his M.A. in 1967 and in 1975 his Ph.D.
Academic work
Ulrich co-authored ''The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible'' with
Martin Abegg Martin G. Abegg Jr. (born 1950) is a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, researcher, and professor. Abegg is responsible for reconstructing the full text of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Dead Sea Scrolls concordance, a project that broke the lengthy publicati ...
and Peter Flint. He is also a member of the translation teams of the
New Revised Standard Version
The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1989 by the National Council of Churches.Bible
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, the
Modern English Version
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, and the
New American Bible
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. He is a specialist in the texts of the
Septuagint
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, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Scriptures.
As Chief Editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls he published five volumes of critical editions in
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert ''Discoveries in the Judaean Desert'' (DJD) is the official 40-volume publication that serves as the '' editio princeps'' for the Dead Sea Scrolls.Lim, Timothy H. (2005) ''The Dead Sea Scrolls. A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University ...
(Oxford) and was an Area Editor for Oxford's ''Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls''. Appointed to the
Grinfield Lecturer
Edward William Grinfield (1785–1864) was an English biblical scholar.
Life
He was the son of Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna, daughter of Joseph Foster Barham of Bedford, and brother of Thomas Grinfield. He was a schoolfellow of Thomas de ...
ship at the
University of Oxford
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, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
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(1998-2000), he was twice elected as President of the
International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies
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Research
The IOSCS has published a journal since ...
and was invited as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
. Recently, he was elected as President of the
Catholic Biblical Association
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and as a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
Awards
Ulrich received the Award Medal of the
University of Helsinki
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, a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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, and several grants from the
National Endowment for the Humanities
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.
*In 1981 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship.
*In 2001 he received the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences's award.
Publications
* ''Discoveries in the Judaean Desert'', Volume XII. Qumran Cave 4: VII: Genesis to Numbers Edited by Eugene Ulrich, Frank Moore Cross and James R. Davila, Published by the Oxford University Press
* ''The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible'', Eugene Ulrich, Martin Abegg and Peter Flint, Published by HarperCollins
* ''Modern English Version'': Amos, Edited by Eugene Ulrich, Stanley M. Horton and James F. Linzey, Published by Passio