Mitchell Dahood

Mitchell Dahood (Anaconda, Montana, 1922- Rome 8 March, 1982) was an American Jesuit Hebraist and Bible scholar. Dahood grew up in Concord, New Hampshire, and studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He moved to Rome in 1957 where he became professor of the Hebrew language, and of the Ancient Near East languages Ugaritic and Eblaite, at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Among his works was a three-volume translation of the Psalms with commentary,[1][2] originally published by Doubleday, and then re-published by Yale University Press in the Anchor Yale Bible Series.

References

  1. ↑ The Rev. Mitchell Dahood, 60, A Scholar of Semitic Studies
  2. ↑ http://members.bib-arch.org/publication.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=8&Issue=3&ArticleID=6


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