Frank Moore Cross

Frank Moore Cross Jr. ( born July 13, 1921 in Ross, California, † 17 October 2012 in Rochester, New York) was an American Old Testament scholar and Paläograf at Harvard University.

Cross studied at Maryville College (BA) and at McCormick Theological Seminary (BD ); at Johns Hopkins University, he received his doctorate ( Ph.D.). He was last seen Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages ​​Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School.

Awards

  • Honorary Member of the Israel Exploration Society and the British Society for Old Testament Study
  • Trustee (curator ) of the American Schools of Oriental Research ( 1973-1991 )
  • Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center of the Trustee (1979-1996) from 1997
  • Trustee of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation since 1992.

Writings

  • (together with David Noel Freedman ) Early Hebrew Orthography: A Study of the Epigraphic Evidence ( = American Oriental Series 36). New Haven, Conn.:. American Oriental Society in 1952.
  • The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies: The Haskell Lectures 1956-1957. Garden City: Doubleday 1961.
  • Leaves from at epigrapher 's Notebook: Collected Papers in Hebrew and West Semitic Palaeography and Epigraphy ( Harvard Semitic Studies = 51). Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003 ISBN 1-575-06911-3.
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