What is Patrick W. Skehan?
{{Underlinked|date=February 2022}} {{Orphan|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}} '''Patrick William Skehan''' (30 September 1909 - 9 September 1980) was an American Old Testament semitic scholar.<ref>{{cite web|title=Skehan, Patrick W.|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/skehan-patrick-w|website=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Descriptions of Manuscript Collections, L-Z|website=University Libraries|publisher=The Catholic University of America|url=https://libraries.catholic.edu/special-collections/archives/collections/manuscript/manuscript-l-z.html#SKEHAN}}</ref> == Life == He was the Chair of 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.<ref name=CUA>{{cite web|title=Patrick W. Skehan|website=Digital Exhibits: American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives|publisher=The Catholic University of America|url=https://cuexhibits.wrlc.org/exhibits/show/biblical-scholarship/contents/patrick-w--skehan}}</ref> He was appointed Secretary of the Advisory Committee for the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (C.S.C.O.).<ref name=CUA/> In 1953, Skehan was a member of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] editorial team, along with Frank Moore Cross, John Allegro, John Strugnell, Dominique Barthélemy, Jean Starcky, Claus-Hunno Hunziger, Josef T. Milik, and Roland de Vaux who was the project director.<ref>{{cite web|title=An inventory of the Patrick W. Skehan Papers at The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives|website=University Libraries|publisher=The Catholic University of America|url=https://libraries.catholic.edu/special-collections/archives/collections/finding-aids/finding-aids.html?file=skehan}}</ref> He was ordained as a priest in the Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite web|title=Skehan, Patrick W.|website=Oxford Reference|publisher=University of Oxford|url=https://w