| LC control no. | n 79045331 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cross, Frank Moore |
| Variant(s) | Ḳros, Franḳ Mur, 1921-2012 Cross, Frank Moore, Jr., 1921-2012 Cross, F. M. (Frank Moore), 1921-2012 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Cambridge (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1921-07-13 |
| Death date | 2012-10-16 |
| Place of birth | Ross (Calif.) |
| Place of death | Rochester (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Semitic philology Dead Sea scrolls |
| Affiliation | Harvard University |
| Profession or occupation | Old Testament scholars College teachers Semitists |
| Found in | Early Hebrew orthography, 1952: title page (Frank Moore Cross, Jr.) Frank Moore Cross volume, 1999: added t.p. (Franḳ Mur Ḳros [in Heb.]) Rule of the community and related documents, 1994: title page (F.M. Cross) page vii (Frank M. Cross, Jr., Harvard University (Emeritus), Cambridge, Massachusetts) LC database, October 19, 2012 (hdg.: Cross, Frank Moore; usage: Frank Moore Cross [predominant form]; Frank Moore Cross, Jr.) Wikipedia, viewed October 24, 2019 (Frank Moore Cross; Frank Moore Cross, Jr.; born July 13, 1921, in Ross, California; died October 17, 2012, in Rochester, New York; Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1950; Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages Emeritus at Harvard University; began teaching at Harvard in 1957 and taught there until 1992; he is notable for his work in the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, his 1973 magnum opus Canaanite myth and Hebrew epic, and his work in Northwest Semitic epigraphy) New York times website, viewed October 22, 2012 (in obituary published October 19, 2012: Frank Moore Cross; born Frank Moore Cross Jr., July 13, 1921, Ross, Calif. (dropped the Jr. after his father died); died Tuesday [October 16, 2012], Rochester, aged 91; influential Harvard biblical scholar who specialized in the ancient cultures and languages that helped shape the Hebrew Bible and who played a central role in interpreting the Dead Sea scrolls) |
| Associated language | eng heb |
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