Michael E. Stone (1938-), scholar

Michael E. Stone (b.1938) is an Israeli scholar. Professor of Armenian and Religious Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Biography

Born in England in 1938. PhD (1965) at Harvard University. Professor of Armenian Studies and Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (1980-2007). Founder of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Member of the Enoch Seminar.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Testament of Abraham: The Greek Recensions (New York 1972)
• The Armenian Version of IV Ezra (Missoula Mont. 1979)
• Scripture, Sects and Visions: A Profile of Judaism from Ezra to the Jewish Revolts (1980 Stone), book
• (with David Satran). Emerging Judaism: Studies on the Fourth & Third Centuries BCE (Minneapolis 1989)
• (with Frank M. Cross). Fourth Ezra: A Commentary (Minneapolis 1990)
• Selected Studies in Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha with Special Reference to the Armenian Tradition (Leiden 1991)
• A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve (Atlanta 1992)
• A Concordance of the Armenian Apocryphal Adam Books (Leuven 2001)
• Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Armenian Studies: Collected Papers (Leuven 2006)

Edited volumes

• Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period (1984 Stone), edited volume
• Biblical Figures Outside the Bible (1998 Stone/Bergren), edited volume