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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Raymond E. Brown

1928 - 1998

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Raymond Edward Brown (May 22, 1928 – August 8, 1998) was an American Sulpician priest and prominent biblical scholar. He was a specialist on the hypothetical Johannine community, which he speculated contributed to the authorship of the Gospel of John, and he also wrote studies on the birth and death of Jesus. Brown was professor emeritus at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York City, where he taught for 29 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond E. Brown has received more than 282,677 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond E. Brown is the 2,412th most popular religious figure, the 6,930th most popular biography from United States and the 54th most popular American Religious Figure.

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  • 15

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  • 2.35

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Raymond E. Brown ranks 2,412 out of 2,238Before him are Carlos Aguiar Retes, Chiara Badano, Lajos Haynald, Jānis Endzelīns, Francisco Robles Ortega, and Phạm Minh Mẫn. After him are Jean Marcel Honoré, Evagrius of Constantinople, Djedkhonsuefankh, Bernard Fellay, Rainer Woelki, and Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Raymond E. Brown ranks 379Before him are Nunzio Gallo, Ján Zachara, Dolph Schayes, Azlan Shah of Perak, Tadeusz Baird, and Dick Van Patten. After him are Santiago Vernazza, Gino Bramieri, Valentin Muratov, Åke Johansson, Türkân Akyol, and Germà Colón. Among people deceased in 1998, Raymond E. Brown ranks 207Before him are Ricardo Tormo, Ed Ablowich, Stokely Carmichael, Marion Donovan, Wanda Jakubowska, and Kvitka Cisyk. After him are Junior Wells, Betty Carter, Aurélio de Lira Tavares, Alice Faye, Stu Ungar, and Fred Alderman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond E. Brown ranks 6,930 out of 18,182Before him are Albert Gutterson (1887), Robert Trivers (1943), Wilbur Ross (1937), Lloyd Kaufman (1945), Bill Frisell (1951), and Eleanor Powell (1912). After him are Harold Budd (1936), William Haines (1900), Warren Farrell (1943), Mike Farrell (1939), Junior Wells (1934), and Chuck Grassley (1933).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Raymond E. Brown ranks 54Before him are Alvin Sargent (1927), John Shelby Spong (1931), Emma Tillman (1892), James Michael Harvey (1949), Mother Angelica (1923), and Edmund Szoka (1927). After him are Lillian Disney (1899), Donald Wuerl (1940), William Wakefield Baum (1926), John F. MacArthur (1939), Wovoka (1856), and John Patrick Foley (1935).