Joseph M. Baumgarten (1928-2008), scholar

Joseph M. Baumgarten (1928-2008) was an Austrian-born Jewish-American scholar.

Biography

Born in Vienna, Austria on September 7, 1928. His family moved to the United States in 1939 when Austria fell under Nazi rule. Was ordained a rabbi in 1950. PhD (1954) in Semitic Studies at John Hopkins University. Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Baltimore Hebrew University (Baltimore, MD), USA. Was actively in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls since the early 1950s. Died on Dicember 4, 2008.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Sacrifice and Worship among the Jewish Sectarians of the Dead Sea (Qumran) Scrolls (Cambridge Mass. 1953)
• Studies in Qumran Law (Leiden 1977)
• (et al.). Qumran Cave 4. XIII: The Damascus Document (Oxford 1996)

Edited volumes

• The Damascus Document: A Centennial of Discovery (2000 Baumgarten/Chazon), edited volume

External links

• Wikipedia