Joseph A. Fitzmyer (1920-2016), American scholar

Joseph A. Fitzmyer is an American scholar, emeritus at Catholic University of America (Washington, DC). USA.

Biography

Born in 1920. PhD at John Hopkins University. Professor of New Testament at the School of Theology and Religious Studies.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Genesis Apocryphon of Qumran Cave I (1971 Fitzmyer), book
• Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament (1971 Fitzmyer), book
• The Dead Sea Scrolls: Major Publications and Tools for Study (1975 Fitzmyer), book
• A Manual of Palestinian Aramaic Texts (1978 Fitzmyer/Harrington), book
• Responses on 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls (1992 Fitzmyer), book
  • Qumran: le domande e le risposte essenziali sui manoscritti del Mar Morto (1994 Fitzmyer), book (Italian ed.)
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins (2000 Fitzmyer), book
• The One Who Is to Come (2007 Fitzmyer), book

Edited volumes

• The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (1990 Brown/Fitzmyer/Murphy), edited volume