Nationality American | Name Roland Murphy | |
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Died July 20, 2002, Washington, D.C., United States Education Catholic University of America Books The Tree of Life: An Explorati, The Song of Songs: A Comment, Wisdom Literature: Job - Prov, The Gift of the Psalms, Responses To 101 Question | ||
Roland Edmund Murphy (July 19, 1917 - July 20, 2002) was an American Catholic priest of the Carmelite order, a biblical scholar and a specialist in the study of the Old Testament. He was the George Washington Ivey Professor of Biblical Studies at Duke University.
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Murphy was ordained a priest in the Carmelite order on 23 May 1942 in Chicago. He received M.A. Degrees in Philosophy and in Semitic languages, and an S.T.D. in Scripture, all from the Catholic University of America. Murphy also held a graduate degree from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. A "noted Scripture scholar", he taught at the Catholic University of America for over twenty-five years; he then took an appointment at Duke University's Divinity School, the "first Catholic faculty member at Methodist Duke Divinity School", where he remained until his death. He was a collaborator on the New American Bible (NAB), a Catholic Bible translation first published in 1970, and a co-editor of both the Jerome Biblical Commentary and the (New) Jerome Biblical Commentary. Murphy also served as president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (1968-1969) and of the Society of Biblical Literature (1984).