Frank Moore Cross, Jr. (1921- ) is a professor emeritus of the Harvard Divinity School, notable for his work in the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. ... Fragments of the scrolls on display at the Archeological Museum, Amman The Dead Sea scrolls (Hebrew: ×××××ת ×× ××××) comprise roughly 825-872 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet...
Moore was born on July 13, 1921 in Ross, California. Ross is a small town in Marin County, California United States, just north of San Francisco. ...
One of his uncles, Rev. Laurance L. Cross, was Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1947 to 1955. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ...