Michael Owen Wise

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Michael Owen Wise (born February 17, 1954 ) is an American ancient orientalist and biblical scholar.

He studied at the University of Minnesota ( BA ), the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois ( M.Div. ) And the University of Chicago , where he completed his dissertation in 1988 with The Temple Scroll. Its Composition, Date, Purpose and Provenance . He was then Assistant Professor at the Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, before becoming Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Languages ​​at the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies at Northwestern College in Saint Paul (Minnesota) was.

His main research area is the Dead Sea Scrolls .

Publications

  • A Critical Study of the Temple Scroll from Qumran Cave 11 , Chicago 1990, ISBN 0-918986-63-X
  • with Robert Eisenman : The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered , 1992
    • with Robert Eisenman: Jesus and the early Christians. The Qumran roles decrypted , Munich, Bertelsmann 1993, ISBN 3-570-02214-5
  • Thunder in Gemini and other Essays on the History, Language and Literature of Second Temple Palestine , Sheffield 1994, ISBN 1-85075-460-8
  • with Martin Abegg , Edward Cook: The Dead Sea Scrolls. A New Translation , San Francisco 1996
    • with Martin Abegg, Edward Cook: The Scrolls of Qumran. Translation and commentary; with previously unpublished texts , edited by Alfred Läpple , Augsburg, Pattloch 1997, ISBN 3-629-00817-8

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SURNAME Wise, Michael Owen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American orientalist and biblical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1954