Frederick J. Murphy (1949-2011), scholar

Frederick J. Murphy (1949-2011) was an American scholar,

Biography

Frederick J. Murphy earned his PhD (1984) at Harvard University. He was Professor in the Dept. of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA), USA from 1983 to his death on Sept 13, 2011.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Structure and Meaning of Second Baruch (1985 Murphy), book

• [[The Religious World of Jesus: An Introduction to Second

Temple Palestinian Judaism (1991 Murphy), book]]

• • Early Judaism: The Exile to the Time of Jesus (2002 Murphy), book

• Pseudo-Philo: Rewriting the Bible (1993 Murphy), book