Michael E. Stone (1938-), scholar

Michael E. Stone

Michael E. Stone (b.1938) is an Israeli scholar, emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Born at Leeds, England in 1938, Michael Stone was raised in Sydney, Australia, receiving his BA in Semitics and Classics from the University of Melbourne in 1960. He earned his PhD in Near Eastern Languages (1965) at Harvard University. He joined the Faculty of the Hebrw UNiversity of Jerusalem in 1966. 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

Books

• Concordance and Texts of the Armenian Version of IV Ezra (1971 Stone), book

• The Testament of Abraham: The Greek Recensions (1972 Stone), book

• The Armenian Version of IV Ezra (1979 Stone), book

• Scriptures, Sects and Visions: A Profile of Judaism from Ezra to the Jewish Revolts (1980 Stone), book

• Faith and Piety in Early Judaism: Texts and Documents (1983 Nickelsburg/Stone), book

• Features of the Eschatology of IV Ezra (1989 Stone), book

• Fourth Ezra: A Commentary (1990 Stone), book

• A Textual Commentary on the Armenian version of IV Ezra (1990 Stone), book

• Selected Studies in Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha (1991 Stone), book

• A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve (1992 Stone), book

• Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Adam and Eve (1996 Stone), book

• A Concordance of the Armenian Apocryphal Adam Books (2001 Stone), book

• Adam's Contract with Satan: The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam (2002 Stone), book

• Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views (2011 Stone), book

• The Aramaic Levi Document (2004 Greenfield/Stone/Eshel), book

• Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Armenian Studies (2006 Stone), book

• Ancient Judaism: New Visions and Views (2011 Stone), book

• Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham (2012 Stone), book

Edited volumes

• Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period (1984 Stone), edited volume
• Emerging Judaism: Studies on the Fourth & Third Centuries BCE (1989 Stone/Satran), edited volume
• Biblical Figures Outside the Bible (1998 Stone/Bergren), edited volume
• Biblical Perspectives: Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998 Stone/Chazon), edited volume
• Pseudepigraphical Perspectives: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1999 Chazon/Stone), edited volume
• Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays (2000 Anderson/Stone/Tromp), edited volume

Essays

• The Enochic Pentateuch and the Date of the Similitudes (1977 Greenfield, Stone), essay

• The Book of Enoch and Judaism in the Third Century BCE (1978 Stone), essay.

• The Books of Enoch and the Traditions of Enoch (1979 Greenfield, Stone), essay

Biography

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