The Canadian government has awarded Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Peter Flint a Canada Research Chair to support his academic work. Flint, of Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, is an authority on the Isaiah Scroll and co-director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He co-authored, with James VanderKam, The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls (HarperSanFrancisco, 2002), named by the Biblical Archaeology Society as the best book relating to the Hebrew Bible for 2001 and 2002. The award is part of the Canadian government’s attempt to strengthen Canadian research universities and stem the brain drain to the United […]
