Frank M. Cross
Frank Moore Cross Jr. (born July 13, 1921 in Ross , California , † October 17, 2012 in Rochester , New York ) was an American Old Testament scholar and Semitist .
Cross studied at Maryville College (BA, 1942) and McCormick Theological Seminary (BD, 1946); In 1950 he received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University . From 1957 taught at the Harvard Divinity School of Harvard University , most recently until his retirement in 1992 as Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages .
Awards
- 1961 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1971 member of the American Philosophical Society
- 1980 Percia Schimmel Prize for Archeology from the Israel Museum
- 1980 William Foxwell Albright Award
- 1991 Medal of Honor from the Complutense University of Madrid
- 1998 Gratz College Centennial Award
- 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)
- Trustee of the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center (1979–1996) from 1997
- Trustee of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation since 1992.
Fonts (selection)
- with David Noel Freedman: Early Hebrew Orthography. A Study of the Epigraphic Evidence (= American Oriental Series 36). New Haven, Conn .: American Oriental Society 1952.
- The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies, The Haskell Lectures 1956–1957. Garden City: Doubleday 1961.
- Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel. Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press 1973. ISBN 0-674-09175-2
- Leaves from an 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
literature
- Peter Machinist: Frank Moore Cross (1921–2012) , in: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 369, 2013, pp. 1–4.
Web links
- Harvard Divinity School Obituary
- Time Magazine Sept. 29, 1958: Frank M. Cross and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- What's New with the Dead Sea Scrolls?
- Literature by and about Frank M. Cross in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cross, Frank M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cross Jr., Frank Moore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Old Testament scholar and paleographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ross , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 2012 |
| Place of death | Rochester , New York |