Joseph M. Baumgarten (1928-2008), scholar

Joseph M. Baumgarten is a Jewish-American scholar, emeritus at Baltimore Hebrew University (Baltimore, MD), USA.

Biography

Born in 1928. PhD (1954) at John Hopkins University. Professor of Rabbinic Literature.

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

• (with Esther G. Chazon). The Damascus Document: A Centennial of Discovery (Leiden 2000)