26 Facts About Joseph Fitzmyer

Joseph Fitzmyer was a member of the Society of Jesus.

Joseph Fitzmyer contributed to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and early Jewish literature.

Joseph Fitzmyer was born on November 4,1920, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Fitzmyer was admitted on July 30,1938 to the novitiate of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus in Wernersville, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Fitzmyer then studied theology in the Facultes Saint-Albert in Belgium.

Joseph Fitzmyer was ordained into the priesthood on August 15,1951.

Joseph Fitzmyer was granted a Licentiate of Sacred Theology by the Catholic University of Leuven in Leuven, Belgium, in 1952 and a Doctor of Semitics degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1956.

Joseph Fitzmyer completed his education with a Licentiate of Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 1957.

Joseph Fitzmyer then received a fellowship at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.

Joseph Fitzmyer worked on preparing a concordance to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

From 1958 to 1969, Joseph Fitzmyer taught New Testament and biblical languages at Woodstock College in Woodstock, Maryland.

Joseph Fitzmyer moved to Chicago in 1969 to teach Aramaic and Hebrew at the University of Chicago.

In 1971, Joseph Fitzmyer joined the faculty of Fordham University to teach New Testament and biblical languages.

Joseph Fitzmyer then went to the Weston School of Theology at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Joseph Fitzmyer served as the speaker's lecturer at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom from 1974 to 1975.

In 1976, Joseph Fitzmyer was appointed as a professor of New Testament in the Department of Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC Joseph Fitzmyer joined the Jesuit community at Georgetown University in Washington.

Joseph Fitzmyer served as editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The Journal of Biblical Literature and New Testament Studies.

Joseph Fitzmyer was president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America, of the Society of Biblical Literature, and of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

Joseph Fitzmyer was the 1984 recipient of the Burkitt Medal of the British Academy and was a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission from 1984 to 1995.

In 1986, Joseph Fitzmyer retired from Catholic University, but did not go into full retirement until 2011.

Joseph Fitzmyer died in Merion, Pennsylvania, on December 24,2016.

Joseph Fitzmyer was not a giant of Catholic biblical scholarship, not a giant of 20th-century biblical scholarship, just a giant of biblical scholarship.

Joseph Fitzmyer's funeral was held on 5 January 2017 at St Matthias Church in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania and he was buried in the cemetery of the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Fitzmyer's publications covered Scripture, theology, Christology, catechesis, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Joseph Fitzmyer was a co-editor of the Jerome Biblical Commentary and the New Jerome Biblical Commentary.

Joseph Fitzmyer summarizes his 50 years of research in the field.