Bob was American Berg Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a major figure in biblical and early Jewish studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He made massive advances in applying computer technology to these fields.
Bob's Wikipedia entry is here. An e-mail message from the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins notes that he was a founding member of the Seminar and and links to a history of the Seminar by him and Annette Yoshiko Reed. His page of collected online work is here. I wrote briefly about his influence on the field in my 2010 SBL paper What Just Happened and PaleoJudaica has referred often to his work. Septuagint scholar William A. Ross interviewed him in 2017.
Bob was a great scholar and a kind and good man, alway supportive of his younger colleagues. We will miss him.
Reqiescat in pace.
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