John Strugnell
Male, Deceased Person
1930 – 2007
Who was John Strugnell?
John Strugnell was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, UK. At the age of 23 he became the youngest member of the team of scholars led by Roland de Vaux, formed in 1954 to edit the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. He was studying Oriental languages at Jesus College, Oxford when Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, a lecturer in Semitic philology, nominated him to join the Scrolls editorial team. Although Strugnell had no previous experience in palaeography he learned very quickly to read the scrolls. He would be involved in the Dead Sea Scrolls project for more than forty years. John Strugnell died in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 30, 2007.
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- Born
- May 25, 1930
Barnet - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Jesus College, Oxford
- Employment
- Duke University
- Harvard University
- Died
- Nov 30, 2007
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on July 23, 2013
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