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Florentino García Martínez
Florentino García Martínez (born 1942, in Mochales or Madrid) is a former 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
and Debates: Proceedings of a Conference held at Brown University, 17–19 November 2002", Edited by Florentino García Martínez, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
- García-Martinez, Florentino, "The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English," (Translated from Spanish into English by Wilfred G. E. Watson) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994).
- García Martínez Florentino, Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Editors, "The Dead Sea Scrolls