Andrew B. Perrin, Ph.d

Biography

The Dead Sea Scrolls are what first brought me to Trinity years ago as a student and remain what excites me most about researching and teaching on faculty. My interests intersect at the transmission and early interpretation of biblical traditions in ancient Judaism, with a particular focus on Aramaic literature found among the Qumran library. I am currently writing a volume on a cross-section of these texts for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant project for the Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls series. This project extends out of my McMaster University dissertation turned monograph, "The Dynamics of Dream-Vision Revelation in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015), which was awarded the 2015 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise from the University of Heidelburg. I am a member and regular presenter at annual meetings of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and Society of Biblical Literature and past fellow of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.

Research Interest

Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Aramaic, apocalyptic literature, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Second Temple Judaism, history of the biblical texts.