Eibert Johannes Calvinus Tigchelaar (born 1959, Sint Anthoniepolder) is a Dutch author considered to be a leading authority on the subject of the

Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts, ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE). They were discovered over a period of ten years, between ...

. Formerly, he held the position of research associate at the Qumran Institute of the

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and was appointed to a professorship at

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before becoming a research professor at

KU Leuven KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries. In addition to its mai ...

Published books

* * ''The Dead Sea Scrolls: Study Edition - Vol. 1'' (Brill Academic Publishers, 1997) * ''The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition - Vol. 2'' (Brill Academic Publishers, 1998) * ''The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition'' (William B. Eerdman's Publishing, 2000) * ''To Increase Learning for the Understanding Ones: Reading and Reconstructing the Fragmentary Early Jewish Sapiential Text 4Q (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)'' (Brill Academic Publishers, 2002)

Other publications

* ''Kennis van het Kwaad''. Zeven visies uit jodendom en . Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2004. * ''Sodom’s Sin. Genesis 18-19 and its Interpretations''. Themes in Biblical Narrative 7. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. * ''Fragmenten uit de woestijn''. De Dode-Zeerollen opnieuw bekeken. Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2003. * ''The Sacrifice of Isaac''. The Aqedah (Genesis 22) and Its Interpretations. Themes in Biblical Narrative 4. Leiden, Boston and Köln: Brill, 2002. * ''To Increase Learning for the Understanding Ones''. Reading and Reconstructing the Fragmentary Early Jewish Sapiential Text 4QInstruction . Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 44. Leiden, Boston and Köln: Brill, 2001. * ''Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXIII'': Qumran Cave 11 II, 11Q2-18, 11Q20-31 Incorporating Earlier Editions by J.P.M. van der Ploeg, O.P. with a Contribution by Edward Herbert. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

References

EJAS Scholar Details: Dr. Eibert Tigchelaar

External links

European Association for Jewish Studies: Qumran Institute and the Dead Sea scrolls
1959 births Living people Dutch biblical scholars Utrecht University alumni University of Groningen alumni Florida State University faculty Academic staff of the Old University of Leuven People from Binnenmaas {{Netherlands-academic-bio-stub