Category: Precursors

Yigael Yadin (1917-1984)

Yigael Yadin (1917-1984) was an Israeli scholar. Yadin led the excavations at Masada. Published the editio princeps of the Temple Scroll.

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Samuel Sandmel (1911-1979)

Samuel Sandmel (1911-1979) was a Jewish-American scholar. Born in Dayton, OH on September 11, 1911. After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1932, received his rabbinical training at Hebrew Union College and was...

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Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987)

Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) was a Jewish-Italian scholar. A specialist in Hellenistic Judaism and Professor at the University of Turin, moved to England in 1938, following the introduction of the Racial Laws in Italy, to...

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Roland de Vaux (1903-1970)

Roland de Vaux (1903-1970) was a French Domenican priest and scholar. From 1934 until his death lived in Jerusalem at the Ecole Biblique. Led the excavation of Qumran (1951-56) and the study of the manuscripts, becoming one of...

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Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a German Alsatian scholar, theologian, musician, philosopher and physician. Born January 14, 1875 in Kayserberg, Alsace-Lorraine, then a German province. A world-class organist who specialized...

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Charles Guignebert (1867-1939)

Charles Guignebert (1867-1939) was a French scholar, a pupil of Joseph-Ernest Renan, and from 1919 a professor of History of Christianity at Sorbonne University. Guignebert followed a strictly rationalist approach to ancient...

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Claude Goldsmid Montefiore (1858-1938)

Claude Goldsmid Montefiore (1858-1938) was a Jewish-British scholar and rabbi, leader of English Liberal Judaism, in 1890 founder and editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Unusual for the time and energy he devoted to the study...

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Robert Henry Charles (1855-1931)

Robert Henry Charles (1855-1931) was a British scholar and theologian at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. At the turn of the century, Charles emerged as the leading authority in the study of the OT Pseudepigrapha and Jewish...

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George Foot Moore (1851-1931)

George Foot Moore (1851-1931) was an American Old Testament scholar. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania on October 15, 1851. Moore graduated from Yale University (1872) and Union Theological Seminary (1877). Ordained as a...

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