Joseph A. Fitzmyer

Joseph A. Fitzmyer (1920–2016) was an American scholar of biblical studies, AramaicAramaicA group of Northwest Semitic language varieties with a long history across the Near East.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, and the Dead Sea ScrollsDead Sea ScrollsJudaean Desert manuscripts, especially Qumran cave finds. Biblical copies and other works reveal textual diversity; a copy’s age is not the work’s initial date.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. He taught at the Catholic University of America from 1976. ^[1]

In a 2002 study, he compared the account of Isaac’s offering in Genesis with its retellings in JubileesBook of JubileesJewish retelling of Genesis and Exodus framed as angelic teaching to Moses, adding chronology, narratives and interpretation.Glossary · Click to read the explanation and the Qumran manuscript 4Q225, then traced some later interpretations. His study is a modern analysis of these texts, not another ancient witness to the story. ^[2]