A great friend of the Biblical Archaeological Society (BAS), Dead Sea Scroll scholar Peter Flint passed away on November 3, 2016, at the age of 65. Peter was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on January 21, 1951, to Alwin and Edelweiss Flint. After graduate studies at the University of South Africa, Peter relocated to the United States to pursue doctoral studies in Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was titled The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls and the Book of Psalms (1993) and was directed by Eugene Ulrich. Professor Ulrich himself said […]
