Morton Smith (1915-1991), scholar

Morton Smith (1915-1991) was an American scholar.

Biography

Professor of ancient history at Columbia University. Author of influential works on the origins of Jewish monotheism.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels (1951 Smith), book

• Palestinian Parties and Politics That Shaped the Old Testament (1971 Smith), book
  • Gli uomini del ritorno = Palestinian Parties and Politics That Shaped the Old Testament (1984 @1971 Smith / Xella), book (Italian ed.)
  • Partidos político-religiosos que conformaron el Antiguo Testamento = Palestinian Parties and Politics That Shaped the Old Testament (2007 @1971 Smith), book (Spanish ed.)
• Jesus the Magician (1978 Smith), book

Articles

• Jewish Religious Life in the Persian Period / The Cambridge History of Judaism: 1. Introduction, the Persian Period (1984 Davies, Finkelstein), edited volume

• The Historical Jesus / Jesus in History and Myth (1986 Hoffmann/Larue), edited volume

• The Occult in Josephus / Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity (1987 Feldman/Hata), edited volume

• Hellenization / Emerging Judaism: Studies on the Fourth & Third Centuries BCE (1989 Stone/Satran), edited volume

• Two Ascended to Heaven - Jesus and the Author of 4Q491 / Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1992 Charlesworth), edited volume
  • Due ascesi al cielo: Gesù e l’autore di 4Q491 / Gesù e la comunità di Qumran = Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1997 @1992 Charlesworth / Franzosi), edited volume (Italian ed.)

• The Troublemakers / The Cambridge History of Judaism: 3. The Early Roman Period (1999 Davies, Horbury, Sturdy), edited volume

Select Bibliography (articles)

• Smith, Morton / Albert I. Baumgarten / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary, 1235-1237

External Links

• Wikipedia