Donald W. Parry, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls at Brigham Young University, is married to Camille Mills, from Las Vegas, Nevada; they have six children.

He has served as a member of the International Team of Translators of the Dead Sea Scrolls since 1994. He is also a member of several other professional organizations, including the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Society, Princeton, New Jersey, the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Groningen, The Netherlands, Society for Biblical Literature, Atlanta, Georgia, and the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Madison, Wisconsin. Parry served as a member of the Board of Directors of Brigham Young University's Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts from 1987-2005.

Recent Publications

• A New Edition of the Great Isaiah Scroll: Transcriptions and Photographs (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998)
• The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Reformulated Issues, and Technological Innovations, edited with Eugene C. Ulrich (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998)
• Current Research and Technical Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997)
• A Biblography of the Finds in the Desert of Judah 1970-95 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996).
• Dead Sea Scrolls Reader series (with Emanuel Tov, 2004, published by E. J. Brill, Leiden), comprising six volumes.
• Assisted Professor Frank Moore Cross, Jr. in preparing the Dead Sea Scroll texts of Samuel (1 and 2 Samuel) discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. Their work was published in Spring 2005 as Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, volume XVII (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
• Articles appearing in Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research, Revue de Qumran, Textus, BYU Studies; and in encyclopedias, festschrifts, and other journals.