John C. Trever
John C. Trever | |
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Born | November 26, 1916 |
Died | April 29, 2006 Yale Graduate School (PhD) | (aged 89)
Academic work | |
Discipline | Old Testament studies |
Notable works | The Untold Story of Qumran (1965) |
John C. Trever (November 26, 1916 – April 29, 2006) was a
Education
Trever received a degree (B.D.) from
Career
He became the first American scholar to see fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Spring of 1948. At the time Trever was filling in for William F. Albright, the director at the American Schools of Oriental Research. He was contacted by a representative of
Trever is the author of "The Untold Story of Qumran" (1965) and "The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Personal Account" (2003). He taught at several colleges: Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio, Morris Harvey College in West Virginia (the University of Charleston), and Claremont School of Theology in California.
The original negatives are in the collection of the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center of the Claremont School of Theology in California.[2]
Selected works
Book
- Trever, John C.; OCLC 461196575.
- The Problem of Dating the Dead Sea Scrolls. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 1954. OCLC 38486455.
- The Untold Story of Qumran. Westwood, NJ: Fleming H. Revell. 1965. OCLC 664188.
- On the Meaning of Biblical Prophecy. Position paper / Northeast Ohio Committee on Middle East Understanding. Vol. 2. Cleveland, OH: Northeast Ohio Committee on Middle East Understanding. 1971. OCLC 4356532.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls: a personal account. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 1977. OCLC 799435349.
- The Bible and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Claremont, CA: School of Theology at Claremont. 1983. OCLC 13240492.
Further reading
- Abegg, Martin. "John C. Trever." Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October, 2006.
- Shanks, Hershel. Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York: Vintage Books, 1998).
- Trever, John C., The Untold Story of Qumran (Westwood: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1965).
References
- ^ a b "Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar John Trever Dies". Albuquerque Journal. Associated Press. May 2, 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ VanderKam, James, and Flint, Peter, The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls (HarperSanfrancisco, 2002), p.70.