For Immediate Release

Princeton Seminary Professor to Be Honored in Volume by Former Students

Princeton, NJ, December 6, 2005– James H. Charlesworth, the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Seminary, will be honored in a forthcoming book of essays, Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions (William B. Eerdmans, 2006). The contributors are all Charlesworth’s former students in the Seminary’s Master of Divinity or Doctor of Philosophy programs, and all worked on the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project. While these alumni/ae have gone on to academic positions around the country and the world, the Dead Sea Scrolls Project has continued to employ academically promising students from all the Seminary’s programs.

The author or editor of many books, Charlesworth is known for his work with the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, Jesus research, the Gospel of John, and the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old and New Testaments. As the founder and director of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project, he has worked on the computer-enhanced photographing and translating of the Qumran scrolls in order to make available for the first time both an accurate text and an English translation of these documents, especially those which are not contained in the Biblia Hebraica. Six volumes of a projected twelve in the series have been published to date, with a seventh volume of The Temple Scroll, the longest scroll found in the Judean desert, pending with Mohr (Siebeck) of Tübingen, Germany.

The contributors to Qumran Studies are Shane A. Berg, doctoral candidate in religious studies (New Testament) at Yale University and instructor in New Testament at Princeton Seminary; Carsten Claussen, Wissenschaftlicher Assistant in New Testament Theology at the Protestant Theological Faculty, University of Tübingen and the University of Munich; Michael A. Daise, assistant professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary; Michael Thomas Davis, current employee of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project and adjunct professor at New York Theological Seminary and Rider University; C.D. Elledge, assistant professor of religion at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota; Loren L. Johns, academic dean and associate professor of New Testament at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana; John B. Faulkenberry Miller, assistant professor of religion at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas; Lidija Novakovic, associate professor of biblical and theological studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota; Henry W. Morisada Rietz, associate professor of religious studies at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa;  Brent A. Strawn, assistant professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the Candler School of Theology and in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University; and Loren T. Stuckenbruck, the B.F. Westcott Professor in Biblical Studies at the University of Durham.  Michael Thomas Davis and Brent A. Strawn are the editors of the book.

For more information, contact Michael Davis at 609-497-7835 or at michael.davis@ptsem.edu.