Weston Fields took his Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1993), where he studied Dead Sea Scroll texts with Profs. Shemaryahu Talmon and Emanuel Tov and wrote his dissertation on the recurring motifs of the Sodom and Gomorrah narrative.

Dr. Fields taught for ten years at Grace College and Theological Seminary (1975-1985), and for seven years at the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem (now Jerusalem University College) 1981-82; 1985-1991. Since 1991 he has been Executive Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, which supported the publication of the scrolls by Oxford University Press in forty volumes (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, Oxford) and has recently begun a continuing series, Dead Sea Scrolls Editions (Leiden and Boston, Brill).  He has lectured on the Scrolls in the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and helps coordinate the work of scholars around the world engaged in publishing the Scrolls and related research and publication.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation has been involved in organizing 12 Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibitions around the world as a means of supporting the conservation and preservation of the scrolls in Jerusalem and publication of scrolls and related topics.

Dr. Fields is author of four books, co-editor of two, and is presently working on three more.

Dr. Fields and his wife, Diane, divide their time between Jerusalem, Israel; Kodiak, Alaska; and Cape Town, South Africa.