Florentino García Martínez

Florentino García Martínez is a former Catholic priest, now married and for many years professor of religion and theology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is a leading expert on messianic ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
He is responsible for the standard translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls along with Eibert Tigchelaar: The Dead Sea Scrolls: Study Edition, 2 Volumes,.
García Martínez has put forward an analysis of the material regarding the Wicked Priest found columns 8 to 12 of the Habakkuk Commentary known as the Groningen hypothesis.
García Martínez became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

Publications

Among García Martínez's more recent publications are:Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament...Defining Identities. We, You, and the Other in the Dead Sea Scrolls...Wisdom and apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the biblical tradition...