Martin Abegg

Martin Gerald Abegg Jr. (born March 6, 1950) is a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, researcher, and professor. Abegg is responsible for reconstructing the full text of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Dead Sea Scrolls concordance, a project that broke the lengthy publication monopoly held on the scrolls. He went on to co-direct the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University from 1995 to 2015. He has been honoured with a collection of essays written by his peers and students. Early life and education

Martin Abegg is the son of Barbara and Martin Gerald "Jerry" Abegg Sr. He was born in Peoria, Illinois.

Abegg graduated from Bradley University in 1972 with a bachelor of science in Geology. Abegg decided to publish this material while he was completing his dissertation. Though this made Dead Sea Scrolls studies more convenient, Abegg was met with fury. Many influential scholars had been kept away from the materials while the editorial team worked on their first edition of scroll translation. Essentially, Abegg's work accelerated Dead Sea Scrolls research.

Personal life Apart from his career, Abegg's interests include hiking, playing the guitar, and good books and music. He met his wife Susan while hiking in Washington's Olympic Mountains in 1974, they married in 1975, and a decade of farm life and summers mountaineering before deciding to start a family; they had two daughters Steph and Jenny. Abegg currently resides in Chilliwack, British Columbia with his wife, Susan, and two cats Gram and Emmylou.

Publications Co-author of The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (Harper San Francisco, 1996) Co-author of The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Harper San Francisco, 1999) Co-author of Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance I: The Non-Biblical Texts from Qumran (Leiden Brill, 2003) Co-author of The Isaiah Scrolls (Clarendon Press Oxford, 2010)