Florentino García Martínez (born 1942, in Mochales [ 1] Madrid [ 2] Catholic priest , now married and for many years professor of religion and theology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands . He is a leading expert on messianic ideas in the Dead Sea scrolls .
He is responsible for the standard translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls along with Eibert Tigchelaar : The Dead Sea Scrolls: Study Edition , 2 Volumes, (Leiden/Grand Rapids: Brill/Eerdmans, 1997 & 1998).
García Martínez has put forward an analysis of the material regarding the Wicked Priest found columns 8 to 12 of the Habakkuk Commentary known as the Groningen hypothesis .
García Martínez became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.[ 3]
Publications
Among García Martínez's more recent publications are:
Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament. (García Martínez, F., Ed.). (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2009).Defining Identities. We, You, and the Other in the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Garcia Martinez, F., Ed.). (Leiden: Brill, 2008).Wisdom and apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the biblical tradition. (Garcia Martinez, F., Ed.). (Leuven: Peeters, 2003).
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