Eugene "Gene" Charles Ulrich (born November 5, 1938) is an American
Dead Sea scrolls
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scholar and the
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Hebrew Scripture
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;["Tanach"](_blank)
. ''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.
Biography
Early life and education
Eugene Ulrich was born in Louisville, Kentucky
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. He has the following degrees: Litt.B., Xavier University
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. From 1964 he holds his Ph.L. from Loyola University Chicago
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. 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.
Career
Ulrich co-authored ''The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible'' with Martin Abegg and Peter Flint. He is also a member of the translation teams of the New Revised Standard Version
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of the 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.Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
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(Oxford) and was an Area Editor for Oxford's ''Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls''. Ulrich has worked under two editors in chief on the scrolls project, namely John Strugnell and Emanuel Tov
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Appointed to the Grinfield Lecturership at the University of Oxford
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(1998–2000), he was twice elected as President of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies and was invited as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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. 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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.Professor
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''emeritus
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