George W.E. Nickelsburg (1934-), scholar
George W.E. Nickelsburg is an American scholar, emeritus at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), USA, PhD at Harvard Divinity School, founding member of the Enoch Seminar, and the author of the two-volume Hermenia commentary on the First Book of Enoch.
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Edited volumes
His monographs include 1 Enoch 1 (Hermeneia, 2001); 1 Enoch 2 (with James C. VanderKam; Hermeneia, 2012); Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins (2003); 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation (with James C. VanderKam, 2012); Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah (2d ed.; 2005); and Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism and Early Christianity (expanded ed., 2006). He has also coedited several collections and Festschriften that have made lasting contributions, including Christians among Jews and Gentiles: Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (1986); Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters (1986); The Future of Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Helmut Koester (1991); and Early Judaism: Texts and Documents on Faith and Piety (with Michael Stone, 2d ed.; 2009). He is also the author of more than ninety articles and several hundred dictionary and encyclopedia entries.
Biography
George W. E. Nickelsburg was born in San Jose California in 1934 and now resides in Issaquah, Washington. He received his education at Valparaiso University, Concordia Seminary, Washington University, and Harvard University, where he did his doctoral work with Krister Stendahl, Helmut Koester, Frank Moore Cross, and John Strugnell. In 1963-64, he was Thayer Fellow at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and a field supervisor in archaeological digs at Tel Ta'annek, the Wadi-ed-Daliyeh, and Tel el-Ful. For three years· he served as pastor of a Lutheran parish in Akron, Ohio. Then for more than three decades he taught on the faculty of The University of Iowa, where he was director of its School of Religion for five years and developed public programming in religion and the arts. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 2000. The history and literature of Second Temple Judaism and the relationships between early Judaism and Christian origins have been the special focus of Nickelsburg's research. In the Society of Biblical Literature, he was chair of the Pseudepigrapha Group (1973-80), co-chair of the Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Group, and co-editor of the series Septuagint and Cognate Studies. He has served on the editorial boards of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Dead Sea Discoveries, the Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period: 450 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. (1999), the Dictionary of Religious Writings in Late Antiquity (2006), and Religion & Theology/ Religie & Theologie. Founding member in 2001 of the Enoch Seminar.