Albert Pietersma

Albert Pietersma (September 28, 1935 – March 25, 2025) was a Dutch-Canadian philologist and academic who was professor emeritus of Septuagint and Hellenistic Greek in the Department of Near and Middle East Civilizations at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts and Science.

Life and career Background Pietersma was born on September 28, 1935, in Opende, Netherlands, of Frisian parents as the second child in a family which included four boys and two girls. Pietersma died on March 25, 2025, at the age of 89.

Education Pietersma studied Calvin College, and when he had not yet graduated, had a conversation with John W. Wevers, who visited the school, and encouraged him to pursue his academic interests. In 1962, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Philosophy from Calvin College. Sean M. McDonough, Natalio Fernández Marcos and others have accepted Pietersma's thesis. On the other hand, Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, Martin Hengel, Emanuel Tov and others do not accept Pietersma's theory.

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Books This is a critical edition of the Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres.

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