The message from David T Runia, quoted below in my former posting, made me very sad. Though I knew David Hay personally only in the last 4-5 years, he was a very pleasant acquaintance. When the SBL Annual Meeting was held in Atlanta a few years ago, I had the pleasure of being invited - together with several other Philo scholars - into his new home. And last November, at the end of the SBL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, due to a suggestion by David, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer and I had a very enjoyable lunsj with David. That was how he was, always friendly and such a kind person. I will really miss him.
In 2001 David M Hay was honored by the dedication of Studia Philonica Annual Vol XIII 2001. It's title was In the Spirit of Faith: Studies in Philo and Early Christianity in Honor of David Hay (Brown Judaic Studies 332.
David was a pauline scholar, but also a Philo scholar. For some years now he had been working on a commentary on De Vita Contemplativa. I don't know how far that work had proceeded; but I do hope that at least some of it can be published so we can be made sharers in more of his great knowledge of this work of Philo.
But above all, he will be missed as a husband and father. Let us include his family in our thoughts and prayers.
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