Shemaryahu Talmon (1920-2010), scholar

Shemaryahu Talmon (Shemaryahu Zelmanowicz; 1920-2010) was a Polish-born Israeli scholar.

Biography

Shemaryahu Talmon was born in Skierniewice, Poland in 1920. He studied at the Jüdisches Reform-Real Gymnasium in Breslau, Germany. In 1939, after a three-month internment in Buchenwald concentration camp, he emigrated to Palestine. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956. He was J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and chief editor of the Hebrew University Bible Project. In 1997, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Biblical studies. A member of the Enoch Seminar, he attended its meetings in Venice (2003) and Camaldoli (2007).

Works

Books

• King, Cult, and Calendar in Ancient Israel (1986 Talmon), book

• The World of Qumran from Within (1989 Talmon), book

Edited volumes

• Qumran and the History of the Biblical Text (1975 Cross/Talmon), edited volume

• Jewish Civilization in the Hellenistic-Roman Period (1991 Talmon), edited volume

External links

• Wikipedia