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- From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
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- Subject: [b-hebrew] Sad news....
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:51:18 -0400
Scholars of the Hebrew Bible will be saddened by this note, earlier received
from Joseph Jensen, CBA Executive Secretary.
Date: June 18, 2003
From: Joseph Jensen, O.S.B., Executive Secretary
Subject: Aloysius Fitzgerald, F.S.C., 1932-2003
I bring you the sad news of the death of Brother Aloysius Fitzgerald,
F.S.C., active CBA member from 1970; CBA Treasurer, 1981-96; CBQ
Associate Editor, 1974-77, 1980-87; OTA Associate Editor, 1991-2003; and
NAB Psalter Revision Committee, 1988-91.
Brother Aloysius lost consciousness because of a cerebral hemorrhage on
June 11th and died in the hospital June 17th, without regaining
consciousness.
His teaching career began at Manhattan College (1967-68), but from 1969
to 1996 he taught Old Testament and Semitics at the Catholic University
of America, where he was Chair of the Semitics Department 1971-83, and
where he was distinguished for his mastery of Hebrew, Akkadian, and
other Semitic Languages. He was in many ways an understudy to Msgr.
Patrick W. Skehan and a replacement for him after the latter's death.
He will be remembered and loved especially for his generous concern for
students, upon whom and upon whose work his time was lavished without
stint. The time and attention given to them, as well as to editing,
proofreading, Bible revision, and other matters that bring no academic
rewards and little recognition, account for his modest literary output,
though what he did publish (including CBQMS 34) was of highest quality.
His students rose up to bless him in the articles they composed in
recognition of him that are published in CBQMS 32.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jim West
Quartz Hill School of Theology
Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
Biblical Studies Resources
http://web.infoave.net/~jwest
- [b-hebrew] Sad news...., Jim West, 06/18/2003
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