Peter William Flint was an American biblical scholar who was involved in research of the

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for over 20 years.

Education

In 1972 Flint completed his first B.A. from

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, Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1973 he obtained his Teacher's Higher Diploma, from Johannesburg College of Education in South Africa. From the

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in Pretoria he earned a B.A. (Honors) in Classical Hebrew in 1979 and a M.A.(Dissertation: Terminology for 'Sin' in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures) in 1983. Seven years later, in 1990 he completed his second M.A at the

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in Indiana, followed by a Ph.D. in Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism in 1993.

Career

He was one of the 70 official members of the Dead Sea Scrolls editors worldwide. As the controversy of publishing of the Dead Sea Scrolls escalated, in 1987 he moved from South Africa to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, where he took a doctoral fellowship and began to study under Eugene Ulrich, the chief editor of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls and one of the central figures of the controversy. In 1997, Flint finished publishing the

Great Psalms Scroll The Great Psalms Scroll, also referred to as 11Q5, is the most substantial and well preserved manuscript of Book of Psalms, Psalms of the thirty-seven discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Qumran Caves, Qumran caves. It is one of six Psalms ...

: the second largest portion of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls. This publication is full of discoveries providing insights for Bible translations, Bible study and biblical scholarship. Flint was an editor of the largest intact scroll: The Great Isaiah Scroll. He served at

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as a professor of Religious Studies, the

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in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies, and a director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. Peter Flint edited several texts for the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Series, including work on the Great Isaiah Scroll from Cave 1. His book ''The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls,'' received an award from the Biblical Archaeology Society. He died on November 3, 2016.

Selection of published works

* ''The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls and the Book of Psalms'' (E.J.Brill, 1997). * Editor of ''The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment'' (E.J. Brill, 1998–99). * Co-author of ''The'' ''Dead Sea Scrolls Bible'' (Harper San Francisco, 2002). * ''The Dead Sea Scrolls'' (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013). * ''The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance For Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus and Christianity.'' (HarperCollins Publishers, 2002). *This book received an award from the Biblical Archaeology Society.

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External links

Full list of his works
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
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