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Line 1: {{Short description\|Polish priest and Biblical scholar (1922–2006)}} {{more footnotes\|date=January 2013}}▼ [[File:DSS Harding-de Vaux-Milik (cropped - Józef Milik).jpg\|thumb\|DSS Harding-de Vaux-Milik (cropped - Józef Milik).jpg]] '''Józef Tadeusz Milik''' (Seroczyn, [[Poland]], March 24, 1922 – [[Paris]], January 6, 2006) was a Polish [[biblical scholar]] and a Catholic priest, well-known researcher of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] (DSS) through the deserts of Judea/Jordana, and translator and editor of Enoch book in Aramaic (fragments).<ref>Martinez/Tigchelaar (1999). [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xcvitgyGmgU0sxOVV3SXVBZTQ/view?usp=sharing The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition]</ref>▼ ▲{{more footnotes needed\|date=January 2013}} ▲'''Józef Tadeusz Milik''' (Seroczyn, [[Poland]], 24 March ~~24,~~ 1922 – [[Paris]], 6 January 6, 2006) was a Polish [[biblical scholar]] and a Catholic priest, ~~well-known~~ researcher of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] (DSS) through the deserts of Judea/~~Jordana~~Jordan, and translator and editor of ~~Enoch~~the ~~book~~[[Book of Enoch]] in Aramaic (fragments).<ref>Martinez/Tigchelaar (1999). [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xcvitgyGmgU0sxOVV3SXVBZTQ/view?usp=sharing The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition]</ref> He was fluent in [[Russian language\|Russian]], [[Italian language\|Italian]], [[French language\|French]], [[German language\|German]], and [[English language\|English]] besides his native [[Polish language\|Polish]], plus many ancient and dead languages including Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Syriac, old ''church'' Slavonic, Arabic, Georgian, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Sumerian, Egyptian, and Hittite.▼ ▲He was fluent in [[Russian language\|Russian]], [[Italian language\|Italian]], [[French language\|French]], [[German language\|German]], and [[English language\|English]] besides his native [[Polish language\|Polish]], plus many ancient and dead languages including [[Hebrew]], [[Ancient Greek\|Greek]], [[Latin]], [[Aramaic language\|Aramaic]], [[Syriac language\|Syriac]], ~~old~~[[Old ~~''church''~~Church Slavonic]], [[Arabic language\|Arabic]], [[Georgian language\|Georgian]], [[Ugaritic language\|Ugaritic]], [[Akkadian language\|Akkadian]], [[Sumerian language\|Sumerian]], [[Egyptian language\|Egyptian]], and [[Hittite language\|Hittite]]. ==Biography== He was born into a peasant family in a small village in central [[Poland]]. His father, despite being a farmer, was interested in science, educated himself and gathered a rich library. He influenced his son, who finished the gymnasium in [[Siedlce]] and later entered the theological college in [[Płock]] in 1939. When the college was closed by Germans after they invaded Poland, he moved to Warsaw. After the [[World War II]], he studied at [[Catholic University of Lublin]] and in 1946 was ordained a priest. Józef Milik deciphered hundreds of the texts of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] as a member of the publication team. He started translating and publishing them in the early 1950s while a student at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls/cast-of-characters/ \| title=Cast of Characters\| date=2012-04-16}}</ref> Then he joined [[Roland de Vaux]]’s team and helped to discover Cave 3, excavated and unearthed hundreds of fragments from Cave 4, and took part in the discovery and excavations of Caves 5 and 6. He ~~would~~ later ~~become~~became one of the most essential participants of the translation and publication team. ==Milestones== Line 30 ⟶ 33: * Milik (1976). [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xcvitgyGmgOTdEZ2RzMGthcE0/view?usp=sharing The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments Qumran Cave 4] with the collaboration of Black M.<ref>The Enoch Scroll from Qumran Library Cave 4 has provided parts in Aramaic among the Dead Sea Scrolls discovery between 1947 and 1956. Table of Contents: Aramaic Book of Enoch; Astronomical Book; Book of Watchers; Book of Dreams; Book of Giants; Enochic Writings.</ref> * Milik (1978). ''Écrits préesséniens de Qumran : d’Hénoch à Amram''. * Martinez/Tigchelaar (1999). The Dead Sea Scrolls Edition [''Hénoc au pays des aromates'' pp. 413, 425, 430]; Caves 1 to 11 & more, with Aramaic frag. and English translation. * Puech Emile (2000). “Milik, Jozef T.” in ''~~Enclyclopedia~~Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls'' edited by Lawrence Schiffman and James VanderKam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, I:~~552-554~~552–554. Robert Feather and Zdzislaw J. Kapera (2011). ''Jozef Milik, Doyen of The Dead Sea Scrolls'', The Enigma Press, Krakow - Mogilany. ==References== {{reflist}}▼ [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article341010.ece The Independent's obituary]▼ * {{cite journal \| author=Shanks, Hershel \| year=2006 \| title=Milestones: Jozef Milik (1922-2006) \| journal=[[Biblical Archaeology Review]] \| volume=32:3 \| issue=May/June \| pages=18}}▼ ==External links== ▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060625225400/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article341010.ece The Independent's obituary] ▲* {{cite journal \| author=Shanks, Hershel \| year=2006 \| title=Milestones: Jozef Milik (~~1922-2006~~1922–2006) \| journal=[[Biblical Archaeology Review]] \| volume=32:3 \| issue=May/June \| pages=18}} * [http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls/cast-of-characters/ The Prodigious Priest: Jozef T. Milik] ▲{{reflist}} {{Dead Sea Scrolls}} Line 44 ⟶ 50: {{DEFAULTSORT:Milik, Jozef}} [[Category:Dead Sea ~~scrolls~~Scrolls]] [[Category:~~Biblical~~Roman Catholic biblical scholars]] [[Category:20th-century Polish Roman Catholic priests]] [[Category:John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni]] [[Category:Pontifical Oriental Institute alumni]] Line 53 ⟶ 59: [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2006 deaths]] [[Category:Polish biblical scholars]]