Józef Milik

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Józef Tadeusz Milik (Seroczyn,

Józef Milik deciphered hundreds of the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls as a member of the publication team. He started translating and publishing them in the early 1950s while a student at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.^[2]

Then he joined Roland de Vaux’s team and helped to discover Cave 3, excavated and unearthed hundreds of fragments from Cave 4, and took part in the discovery and excavations of Caves 5 and 6. He later became one of the most essential participants of the translation and publication team.

Milestones

• 1944 Entered
  Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Syriac, and Old Church Slavonic
• 1946 Ordained as a
  Catholic priest in Warsaw
• Late-1940s Attended
  Ugaritic, Akkadian, Sumerian, Egyptian, and Hittite
• 1950 Gained a licentiate summa cum laude
• 1951 Began working in Jerusalem to decipher DSS; devised a system of designating the fragments
• 1955 Co-edited first major DSS publication for Cave 1 texts: "Discoveries in the Judaean Desert"
• 1956 Heralded by Time magazine as "the fastest man with a fragment"
• 1959 Published Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea describing the Dead Sea Scrolls discovery (revision and translation of the 1957 book "Dix ans de découvertes dans le Désert de Juda")
• 1969 Leaves the priesthood and marries Polish art historian Jolanta Zaluska in Rome. Moves to Paris
• 1976 Published The Books of Enoch

After moving to Paris, Milik worked as a researcher for the

Bibliography

• Milik (1957). Dix ans de découverte dans le désert de Juda | Discoveries in the Judean Desert
• Milik (1972). Milki-sedeq et Milki-resa dans les anciens écrits juifs et chrétiens.
• Milik (1976). The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments Qumran Cave 4 with the collaboration of Black M.^[3]
• Milik (1978). Écrits préesséniens de Qumran : d’Hénoch à Amram.
• Martinez/Tigchelaar (1999). The Dead Sea Scrolls Edition [Hénoc au pays des aromates pp. 413, 425, 430]; Caves 1 to 11 & more, with Aramaic frag. and English translation.
• Puech Emile (2000). “Milik, Jozef T.” in Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls edited by Lawrence Schiffman and James VanderKam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, I:552–554.
• Robert Feather and Zdzislaw J. Kapera (2011). Jozef Milik, Doyen of The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Enigma Press, Krakow - Mogilany.

References

External links

• The Independent's obituary
• Shanks, Hershel (2006). "Milestones: Jozef Milik (1922–2006)". Biblical Archaeology Review. 32:3 (May/June): 18.
• The Prodigious Priest: Jozef T. Milik