Albert I. Baumgarten, scholar

Albert I. Baumgarten (b.1942) is an Israeli scholar, at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Biography

PhD (1972) at Columbia University, USA. Professor in the Dept. of Jewish History. Member of the Enoch Seminar and of the Israeli Board of the journal Henoch.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era (1997 Baumgarten), book
• Ha-Kitatiyut bi-yeme ha-Bayit ha-sheni: masah historit-hevratit-datit <Hebrew> / Second Temple Sectarianism: A Social and Religious Historical Essay (Tel-Aviv 2001)

• Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews (2010 Baumgarten), book

• Halakhah in Light of Epigraphy (2011 Baumgarten), book

Edited volumes

• Apocalyptic Time (Leiden 2000)
• Sacrifice in Religious Experience (Brill 2002)