Donald W. Parry: Mormon Scholar
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 in journals, festschrifts, conference proceedings, and encyclopedias.
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). Donald W. Parry is a professor of Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls at Brigham Young University where he holds the Abraham O. Smoot Professorship.
He is also a member of several other professional organizations, including the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Society, the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, the Society for Biblical Literature, and the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.
He has coauthored with his brother, Jay A. Parry, several books for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he is a member. Those titles include Understanding Isaiah, Understanding the Signs of the Times, and most recently, Symbols and Shadows: Unlocking a Deeper Understanding of the Atonement.
Parry served as a member of the Board of Directors of FARMS from 1988 until its dissolution in 2007.
Parry and his wife, Camille, are the parents of six children.
