James Vander came

James Claire VanderKam (born February 15, 1946 ) is an American theologian; he holds the John A. O'Brien Professorship in Theology at the University of Notre Dame , Indiana . His main field of work is the Dead Sea Scrolls .

After graduating from college (1968) and graduating from theology seminar (1971), both in Grand Rapids , Michigan , he graduated from Harvard University in 1976 . In the same year he became an assistant professor of religion at North Carolina State University , then an associate professor in 1981 and a full professor in 1986. In 1996 he followed a call to the University of Notre Dame as Professor of Hebrew Scriptures. In 1998 he took over the John A. O'Brien Chair at the same university.

VanderKam is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Dead Sea Scrolls and has edited twelve volumes of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert . He is one of the two editors ( editor-in-chief ) of the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls published in 2000 . He is also a member of the editorial board of Dead Sea Discoveries .

James C. VanderKam is married with three children.

Works (selection)

• The Book of Jubilees. Leuven: Peeters 1989.
• The Dead Sea Scrolls Today. 1994, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans ² 2010. ISBN 978-0-8028-6435-2
• Introduction to Qumran Research: History and Significance of the Dead Sea Scriptures. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1998. ISBN 3-525-03292-7
• From Revelation to Canon: Studies in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 62). Leiden: Brill 2000. ISBN 90-04-11557-9
• An Introduction to Early Judaism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2001. ISBN 0-8028-4641-6
• From Joshua to Caiaphas: High Priests after the Exile. Minneapolis: Fortress Press et al. a. 2004. ISBN 978-90-232-4074-7