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Nahman Avigad (1905-1992) was an Israeli scholar and archaeologist. Born in Zwalow, Galicia, Avigad settled in Israel in 1925. He earned his PhD in 1952, with a dissertation on the tombs of the Kidron Valley, Jerusalem. He taught at Hebrew University from 1949 and until his retirement in 1974. In 1954, Avigad was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought. In 1956 he published with Yigael Yadin the editio princeps of the Genesis Apocryphon. In 1977, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Land of Israel studies. In 1984, he received the Yakir Yerushalayim (Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) award from the city of Jerusalem.

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