Another Kraft obituary

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Robert A. Kraft, religious studies professor emeritus at Penn, writer, editor, and translator, has died at 89. He was a self-defined “techie,” and a colleague said: “He has worked tirelessly to find new applications for computer technologies in the study of a wide range of ancient texts.” (Gary Miles).

Inspired by his religious family and driven by his own love of language and literature, Dr. Kraft served as the Berg Professor of Religious Studies at Penn from 1992 until his retirement in 2003. His research and teaching focused on the history and literature of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period from 332 BC to 395 AD, and he pioneered the computer digitization of ancient Jewish scriptures and other documents.

Background here and here.

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