Frank Moore Cross
| Frank Moore Cross, Jr. | |
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| Born |
July 13, 1921 Ross, California, U.S. |
| Died | October 17, 2012 (aged 91) Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Hebrew Bible, Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, Dead Sea Scrolls |
| Title | Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages Emeritus at Harvard University |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
Maryville College McCormick Theological Seminary University of Lethbridge |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University (PhD) |
| Thesis year | 1950 |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions |
Johns Hopkins University Wellesley College McCormick Theological Seminary Harvard University |
| Notable works | The Ancient Library of Qumran |
Frank Moore Cross, Jr. (July 13, 1921 – October 16, 2012) was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages Emeritus at Harvard University, notable for his work in the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, his 1973 magnum opus Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, and his work in Northwest Semitic epigraphy. Many of his essays on the latter topic have since been collected in Leaves from an Epigrapher's Notebook.
Cross was the son of Frank Moore Cross, a long-time pastor of Ensley Highland Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. One of his uncles, the Rev. Laurance L. Cross, was Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1947 to 1955.
Cross graduated from Ensley High School in 1938. He received a BA from Maryville College in 1942 and a BD from McCormick Theological Seminary, where he was awarded the Nettie F. McCormick Fellowship in Old Testament Studies, in 1946. Cross went on to study under William F. Albright, the founding father of Biblical Archaeology, at Johns Hopkins University, where he received a PhD in 1950. He also received an MA at Harvard in 1958. Cross was awarded a DPhil from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1984 and a DSc from the University of Lethbridge in 1990.
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