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====Books====
====Books====
*[[The Chronicles of Jerahmeel; or, The Hebrew Bible Historiale (1899 Gaster), book]]
*[[The Chronicles of Jerahmeel; or, The Hebrew Bible Historiale (1899 Gaster), book]]
*[[The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature (1925 Gaster), book]]
*[[The Story of Chanucah (1928 Gaster), book]]
*[[The Story of Passover (1929 Gaster), book]]
*[[The Story of Purim (1929 Gaster), book]]
*[[The Story of Shavuoth (1930 Gaster), book]]
*[[The Story of the High Festivals and the Feast of Tabernacles (1931 Gaster), book]]


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[[Category:Early Samaritan Scholars|1856 Gaster]]
[[Category:Early Samaritan Scholars--United Kingdom|1856 Gaster]]

Latest revision as of 11:43, 28 January 2013

Moses Gaster (1856-1939) was a Romanian Jewish scholar, active mostly in England.

Biography

Gaster was born Sept 17, 1856 in Bucharest [Romania] into a renowned Jewish Austrian family.

After studying in his native city, he earned degrees from the University of Leipzig (1878) and the Jewish Seminary in Breslau (1881).

Gaster taught Romanian language and literature at the University of Bucharest (1881–85). In 1886 he moved to England as Professor of Slavonic literature at the University of Oxford.

Gaster gathered a large collection of ancient manuscript, which is now preserved at the University of Manchester.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

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