Mitchell Dahood
Mitchell Dahood | |
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| Born | 1922 |
| Died | March 8, 1982 (aged 59–60) |
| Employer | Pontifical Biblical Institute |
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| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
Mitchell Dahood (1922 – 8 March 1982) was an American Jesuit Hebraist and Bible scholar. Dahood grew up in Concord, New Hampshire, and studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He moved to Rome in 1957 where he became professor of the Hebrew language, and of the Ancient Near East languages Ugaritic and Eblaite, at the Pontifical Biblical Institute.[1]
Among his works was a three-volume translation of the Psalms with commentary,[1][2] originally published by Doubleday, and then re-published by Yale University Press in the Anchor Yale Bible Series. Dahood was known within the field of biblical studies for using information from Ugarit and the Ugaritic language (discovered first in 1929) as the basis for proposed new interpretations of passages in the Psalms, with sometimes controversial results.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The Rev. Mitchell Dahood, 60, A Scholar of Semitic Studies". New York Times. 11 March 1982. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ Shanks, Hershel (1982). "Mitchell Dahood-In Memoriam". Biblical Archaeology Review. 8 (3) 6. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ Freedman, David Noel (1982). "Mitchell Dahood 1922-1982, in Memoriam". The Biblical Archaeologist. 45 (3): 185–187. doi:10.1086/BIBLARCH3209813. JSTOR 3209813. S2CID 189439008.
- ^ Moore, Michael S. (1981). "A Short Note on Mitchell Dahood's Exegetical Methodology". Hebrew Studies. 22: 35–38. JSTOR 27908697.
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