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                                    <article-title>Przemysław Dec (1969–2018): Qumranologist and Connaisseur of Ancient Judaism</article-title>
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                                <surname>Kapera</surname>
                                <given-names>Zdzisław J.</given-names>
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                        <institution>Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Polska, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków</institution>
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                                    <corresp id="cor-1">Correspondence to: Zdzisław J. Kapera <email>enigma@post.pl </email></corresp>
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                            <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic" iso-8601-date="2018-12-20">
                    <day>20</day>
                    <month>12</month>
                    <year>2018</year>
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            <volume>Volume 16</volume>
            <issue>2018</issue>
                        <fpage>153</fpage>
                                    <lpage>168</lpage>
            
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        &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Dr Przemysław Dec (1969–2018) was a lecturer at the Department of History of Judaism and Jewish Literature in the Institute of Jewish Studies of the Jagiellonian University for more than a decade. He was a passionate Qumran scholar and charismatic teacher. He died prematurely in September 2018. The Jagiellonian University has lost an exceptionally talented Hebrew philologist and lecturer on ancient Judaism.&lt;/p&gt;
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                            <article-title>Dec, P. (2009a), “Klucze Piotra” oraz funkcja “wiązania” i „rozwiązywania” w Mt 16,19. Retranslacja tekstu i analiza wybranych leksemów w świetle Biblii hebrajskiej, tekstów z Qumran, Peszitty i Talmudu, Przegląd Religioznawczy No. 2(232): 141-158.</article-title>
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                            <article-title>Dec, P. (2009b), The Material and Textual Reconstruction of the 1QHa col. 8 (+fragm. 12), Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia 7: 25-32.</article-title>
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                            <article-title>Dec, P. (2009c),review of: R. Kessler, The Social History of Ancient Israel, Minneapolis 2008, in: Scripta Biblica et Orientalia 1: 285-289.</article-title>
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                            <article-title>Dec, P. (2011a), J 10,1-21 a Świątynia Jerozolimska, Scripta Biblica et Orientalia 3: 251-262.</article-title>
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                            <article-title>Dec, P. (2011b), review of: I. Eph’al-Jaruzelska, Prophets, Royal Legitimacy and war in Ancient Israel, Warszawa 2009, in: Scripta Judaica Cracovienia 9: 199-201.</article-title>
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