Peter William Flint was an American biblical scholar who was involved in research of the Dead Sea Scrolls for over 20 years.
Seven years later, in 1990 he completed his second M.A at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, followed by a Ph.D. in Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism in 1993.
[2] As the controversy of publishing of the Dead Sea Scrolls escalated, in 1987 he moved from South Africa to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, where he took a doctoral fellowship and began to study under Eugene Ulrich, the chief editor of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls and one of the central figures of the controversy.
[4] Peter Flint edited several texts for the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Series, including work on the Great Isaiah Scroll from Cave 1.
[5] His book The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls, received an award from the Biblical Archaeology Society.