Florentino García Martínez (born 1942, in Mochales[1] or Madrid[2]) 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.
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.
[3] Among García Martínez's more recent publications are: This biographical article about a Spanish academic is a stub.