Frederick J. Murphy (1949-2011), scholar

Frederick J. Murphy is an American scholar, at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA), USA.

Biography

PhD (1984) at Harvard University. Professor in the Dept. of Religious Studies from 1983.

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 (Nashville 1991)
• Pseudo-Philo: Rewriting the Bible (New York 1993)
• Early Judaism: The Exile to the Time of Jesus (Peabody Mass. 2002)