Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale theologian and biblical scholar, died of lung cancer on May 13. He was 82. Pelikan wrote more than 30 books, including Acts, a volume of the “Brazos Theological Commentary of the Bible” series (January, Brazos Press).

Pelikan was a former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. In 2004, Pelikan and French philosopher Paul Ricoeur shared the $1 million Kluge Prize that honors scholars in such areas as history, sociology and anthropology-fields not covered by the Nobel Prizes.

Also that year, Pelikan published Interpreting the Bible & the Constitution (Yale University Press), a book comparing the way the Bible and the U.S. Constitution have been understood and applied.

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