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Revision as of 16:05, 31 January 2010
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 (1953 Baumgarten), book
- Studies in Qumran Law (1977 Baumgarten), book
- Qumran Cave 4. XIII: The Damascus Document (1996 Baumgarten), book