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Roy Kinneer Patteson, Jr.

During his doctoral studies Patteson had developed an interest in the first century book, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, Prior to 1964 the only extant Hebrew text of this book was known from the Cairo Geniza collection.

His research resulted in the establishment of a critical Hebrew text for portions of the first-century B.C. book, The Wisdom of Ben Sira.

is an American scholar whose knowledge of Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Hellenistic Greek enabled him to undertake an analysis of the text of the Ben Sira Scroll discovered at Masada in Palestine in 1964.


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