As part of its graduation exercises on April 24, Providence University College presented an honorary doctorate degree to a former student who has gone on to achieve big things in the academic world.
Dr. Daniel Falk, a world-renowned expert in the Hebrew Bible and the ongoing study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, graduated from Providence in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts. He then went on to earn a Master of Arts at Regent College and a Ph.D. from Cambridge. Falk is also the author of two books, Daily, Sabbath, and Festival Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Falk currently serves on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University. Before that, he was Professor of Ancient Judaism and Biblical Studies at the University of Oregon. Falk was also a Kennicott Fellow in Hebrew at the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford.