Klaus Berger, 1940-2020

SAD NEWS: Reports have been coming in that Professor Klaus Berger, New Testament scholar at Heidelberg University, passed away on 8 June 2020. In addition to his many contributions to New Testament studies, he also published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

I cannot find any English notices of his death, but there are two German articles in the Die Tagespost:

Klaus Berger gestorben. Der Heidelberger Neutestamentler Klaus Berger ist gestern plötzlich gestorben

Klaus Berger: Gelebte Ganzhingabe. Zum Tod des deutschen Exegeten (Barbara Stühlmeyer)

His brief English Wikipedia page is here. The German Wikipedia page (here) is much fuller. I was mostly familiar with his work on the Aramaic Qumran texts in Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984, 1994).

Requiescat in pace.

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