Milestone: James A. Sanders

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James Alvin Sanders, Professor Emeritus of Intertestamental and Biblical Literature at the Claremont School of Theology, passed away in his home on October 1, 2020. His son, Robin, and daughter-in-law, Dawn, were with him. He is also survived by grandsons, Robin, Jr., and Alex. His wife, Dora Geil Cargille Sanders, predeceased him in 2016. Jim was born on November 28, 1927, to Robert E. and Sue Black Sanders in Memphis, Tennessee. Staying in Tennessee, he began his studies at Vanderbilt University, earning the B.A. degree magna cum laude in 1948 and the B.D. degree with distinction in 1951. As […]

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Endnotes

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The work was published as a special issue in the Colgate Divinity School Bulletin 28 (1955).

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His publications include The Psalms Scroll of Qumrân Cave 11 (11QPsa) (DJD 4; Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), Torah and Canon (Fortress, 1972), Canon and Community (Fortress, 1984), From Sacred Story to Sacred Text (Fortress, 1987), The Rebirth of a Born-Again Christian (Cascade, 2017), and Scripture in Its Historical Contexts (2 vols.; FAT 118, 126; Mohr Siebeck, 2018, 2019).