Donald W. Parry
Donald W. Parry Ph.D. is a professor of Hebrew Bible in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University. He holds the Abraham O. Smoot Professorship. He is the author and editor of many works related to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible, Old Testament. He has been a member of the International Team of Translators of the Dead Sea Scrolls since January 1994. He served as a member of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation Board of Advisors, 2008–present and presently serves as a member of the Dead Sea Scrolls  Foundation Board of Trustees. He has authored or edited more than forty books, and has written and published more than eighty articles. He was written widely on the books of Isaiah, for both scholarly and general audiences. Many of his publications deal with the Isaiah Dead Sea Scrolls, including his recently published Exploring the Isaiah Scrolls and Their Textual Variants (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2020, 509 + pages, including 5 appendices), which deals with all of the Dead Sea Scrolls copies of Isaiah. He has also published works on the books of Samuel, ancient temples and their significance, and various  topics dealing with the Hebrew Bible. For the scholarly community, Parry treats various topics, such as paleography, lexical meanings, orthography, ancient scribal practices, textual affiliations, and corpus-based examination of linguistic features. In addition to writing six books on Isaiah, Parry brings twenty-seven years of work on the Dead Sea Scrolls. As one of the scrolls' international team of translators, he has published the Books of Samuel, the twenty-one Isaiah Dead Sea Scrolls Isaiah, and has authored or edited more than fifteen volumes on the Dead Sea Scrolls. These include scholarly works as well as publications for popular  audiences. He is a member of several other organizations, including the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (Groningen, The Netherlands), Society for Biblical Literature (Atlanta, Georgia), and the National Association of Professors of Hebrew (Madison, Wisconsin). Parry is the Cofounding Director (with Jennifer A. Mackley, Seattle, Washington) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation.