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'''Seán Freyne''' (d.2013) was an Irish scholar.
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==Biography==
'''Seán Freyne''' (1935-2013) was an Irish scholar. A native of [[Tooreen, Ireland]] and former Catholic priest, Sean Freyne was Professor of Theology in the School of Religions and Theology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His academic interests included a study of Galilee in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the historical Jesus, the gospels, and aspects of early Jewish and early Christian history and development. He published several books. Freyne lectured widely in Australia and in the United States, at Loyola University New Orleans, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame, and Visiting Professor of Early Christian History and Literature at Harvard Divinity School (2007–2008). At one time president of the Society for the Study of the New Testament, Freyne was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, as well as a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library of Oriental Art, Dublin.
 
Sean Freyne was Professor of Theology in the School of Religions and Theology, Trinity College, Dublin. His academic interests included a study of Galilee in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the historical Jesus, the gospels, and aspects of early Jewish and early Christian history and development. He published several books, most recently Jesus a Jewish Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus Story. Dr. Freyne lectured widely in Australia and in the U.S., at Loyola University New Orleans, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame, and Visiting Professor of Early Christian History and Literature at Harvard Divinity School (2007–2008). He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, as well as a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library of Oriental Art, Dublin.


==Works on Second Temple Judaism==
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**[[Jesús, un galileo judío: Una nueva lectura de la historia de Jesús (2009 Freyne), book (Spanish ed.)]]
**[[Jesús, un galileo judío: Una nueva lectura de la historia de Jesús (2009 Freyne), book (Spanish ed.)]]


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Seán Freyne (1935-2013) was an Irish scholar. A native of Tooreen, Ireland and former Catholic priest, Sean Freyne was Professor of Theology in the School of Religions and Theology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. His academic interests included a study of Galilee in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the historical Jesus, the gospels, and aspects of early Jewish and early Christian history and development. He published several books. Freyne lectured widely in Australia and in the United States, at Loyola University New Orleans, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame, and Visiting Professor of Early Christian History and Literature at Harvard Divinity School (2007–2008). At one time president of the Society for the Study of the New Testament, Freyne was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, as well as a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library of Oriental Art, Dublin.

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