# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-noel-freedman
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:33:22.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-noel-freedman"
name: "David Noel Freedman"
slug: "david-noel-freedman"
description: "David Noel Freedman was an American biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist, and, after his conversion from Judaism, a Presbyterian minister. He was one of the first Americans to work on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is the son of the writer David Freedman. He died of a heart ailment."
tagline: "American biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist (1922-2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/David_Noel_Freedman.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-05-22"
deathDate: "2008-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.008712
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Noel_Freedman"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديڤيد نويل فريدمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Noel_Freedman"
    title: "David Noel Freedman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Noel_Freedman"
    title: "David Noel Freedman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Noel_Freedman"
    title: "David Noel Freedman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "دیوید نوئل فریدمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Noel_Freedman"
    title: "David Noel Freedman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Noel_Freedman"
    title: "David Noel Freedman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5238058"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump