Профессор ветхозаветной критики и экзегезы Йельской богословской школы.

Родился в 1946 г. Получил бакалаврскую и магистерскую степени в University College Dublin. Докторскую диссертацию (PhD) защитил в Гарвардском университете.

Преподавал в University of Notre Dame (1985–91 гг.), а также параллельно в Гарвардском и Чикагском университетах (1991-2000 гг.).

В 2002 г. являлся президентом Society of Biblical Literature.

Работал главным редактором научных журналов "Dead Sea Discoveries", "Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism" и "Journal of Biblical Literature".

С 2000 г. преподает в Йельской богословской школе.

Известен благодаря исследованию еврейской Библии, апокрифов периода Второго храма и свитков Мертвого моря.

Автор более 300 научных работ.

Монографии

1. The Sibylline Oracles of Egyptian Judaism (Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 13; Missoula: Scholars Press, 1974)
2. The Apocalyptic Vision of the Book of Daniel (Harvard Semitic Monographs 16; Missoula: Scholars Press, 1977)
3. Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (New York: Crossroad, 1983) Revised edition: Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1999
4. The Apocalyptic Imagination (New York: Crossroad, 1984) Revised edition: Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.
5. Daniel, with an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature (Forms of Old Testament Literature 20; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984)
6. Daniel (Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993)
7. The Scepter and the Star. The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature (New York: Doubleday, 1995). Revised ed., Eerdmans, 2010.
8. Qumran Cave 4. XVII. Parabiblical Texts, Part 3 (DJD XXII; Oxford: Clarendon, 1996). Co-authored with G. Brooke and others.
9. Families in Ancient Israel (co-authored with L. G. Perdue, J. Blenkinsopp, and C. Meyers; Louisville: Westminster, 1997)
10. Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (London: Routledge, 1997; Italian translation, Milan: Massimo, 1999)
11. Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 1997). Paperback edition, 2001
12. Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age (Old Testament Library; Louisville: Westminster, 1997)
13. The Hebrew Bible. An Introduction. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004
14. Does the Bible Justify Violence? (Facets; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004).
15. Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture (JSP Sup 100; Leiden: Brill, 2005).
16. Encounters with Biblical Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005)
17. The Bible after Babel. Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005).
18. A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007).
19. King and Messiah as Son of God, co-authored with Adela Yarbro Collins, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).
20. Beyond the Qumran Community. The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).

Под редакцией

1. Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre (Semeia 14; Missoula: Scholars Press, 1979). Re-print, 1998.
2. Ideal Figures in Ancient Judaism (Septuagint and Cognate Studies 12; Chico: Scholars Press, 1980; co-editor with George W. Nickelsburg).
3. Apocalyptic Symbols and Social Reality (Biblical Research 26; Chicago: Chicago Society of Biblical Research, 1981)
4. The Biblical Heritage (ed. with John Dominic Crossan; Wilmington: Glazier, 1986)
5. Hebrew Bible or Old Testament (ed. with Roger Brooks; Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1990)
6. Of Scribes and Scrolls. Studies on the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Judaism and Christian Origins (ed. with Harold W. Attridge and Thomas H. Tobin; Lanham Md.: University Press of America, 1990).
7. Mysteries and Revelations. Apocalyptic Studies since the Uppsala Colloquium(ed. with J. H. Charlesworth; JSPSup 9; Sheffield: JSOT, 1991).
8. Studies in Creation (ed. with R. J. Clifford; CBQMS 24; Washington, D.C., 1993)
9. Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site. Present Realities and Future Prospects (ed. with M. O. Wise, N. Golb and D. Pardee (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 22; New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1994).
10. Death, Ecstasy and Otherworldly Journeys (ed. with Michael Fishbane; Albany: SUNY Press, 1995).
11. The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism (New York: Continuum, 1998). 3 vols. edited with Bernard McGinn and Stephen J. Stein. Winner of Choice Outstanding Book Award, 1999.
12. Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. with Robert Kugler; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000)
13. Hellenism in the Land of Israel (ed. with Gregory Sterling; Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001).
14. The Book of Daniel. Composition and Reception (2 vols. ed with Peter W. Flint; Leiden: Brill, 2001).
15. The History of Apocalypticism (with B. McGinn and S. Stein; New York: Continuum, 2003). Condensation of no. 7.
16. Sapiential Perspectives: Wisdom Literature in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (with Gregory E. Sterling and Ruth A. Clements; STDJ 51; Leiden Brill, 2004).
17. Apocalypse and Violence (with Abbas Amanat; New Haven: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 2004).
18. Religions of the Ancient World. A Guide (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 2004). Editorial board member with responsibility for ancient Israel and Judaism. (General Editor: Sarah Iles Johnston).
19. Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls (with Craig A. Evans; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006).
20. The Catholic Study Bible (with Don Senior; Liturgical Press, 2004).
21. The Early Enoch Literature (with Gabriele Boccaccini; JSJSup 121; Leiden: Brill, 2007)
22. Identidades Fluídas no Judaísmo Antigo e no Cristianismo Primitivo, (with Paulo Nogueira and Pedro Paulo Funari (Sao Paulo: AnnaBlume, 2010).
23. The Dictionary of Early Judaism (Co-edited with Daniel C. Harlow. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).
24. The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Co-edited with Timpthy Lim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).