Donald W. Parry is an American academic who is a professor of Hebrew Bible in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at

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. He holds the Abraham O. Smoot

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. He is the author and editor of works related to the

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and the

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, and the

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. He has authored or edited more than forty books, and has written and published more than eighty articles, and has authored or edited more than fifteen volumes on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is a member of several other organizations, including the

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(

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), Society for Biblical Literature (

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), and the

(

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). Parry is the Co-founding Director (along with Jennifer A. Mackley,

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) of the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation, and currently acts as an advisor of the foundation.

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