Patrick W. Skehan
American university teacher (1909-1980)
Patrick William Skehan (September 30, 1909 in New York City – September 9, 1980) was an American Old Testament semitic scholar.
Education
Skehan received his B.A. from Fordham University (1929), and studied theology at St. Joseph's Seminary (known as Dunwoodie). He studied Scripture and Semitic Languages at Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, where he earned his doctorate and obtained a Doctor of Sacred Theology in the Old Testament (1938). His doctoral advisor was Edward P. Arbez, and his dissertation for his doctorate in Sacred Theology was entitled The Literary Relationship Between the Book of Wisdom and the Protocanonical Wisdom Books of the Old Testament.
Religious order
He was ordained as a priest in the Catholic Church and received his ordination at St. Joseph's Seminary on September 23, 1933.
Academic work
He was the Chair of the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He was appointed Secretary of the Advisory Committee for the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (C.S.C.O.).
Teaching
He taught Hebrew Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac at the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America, and a visiting professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
Editorial work
Skehan participated in the translation of the New American Bible.
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