Harry M. Orlinsky (1908-1992), scholar

Harry M. Orlinsky (1908-1922) was a Canadian Jewish scholar.

Biography

Harry M. Orlinsky was born on March 17, 1908 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.

He graduated from the University of Toronto, Canada, and earned hid PhD from Dropsie College.

After a postdoctoral year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1935, he taught post-Biblical Jewish history at Baltimore Hebrew College, 1936-44. He then moved at the New York School of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he remained for almost a half-century.

Orlinsky died on March 21, 1992.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Septuagint: The Oldest Translation of the Bible (1949 Orlinsky), book

External links

• [ Wikipedia]