Harry M. Orlinsky (1908-1992), scholar

Harry M. Orlinsky (1908-1992) was a Canadian Jewish scholar. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Orlinsky 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.

Works

Books

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

• Ancient Israel (1954 Orlinsky), book

Articles

• The Septuagint and its Hebrew Text / In: The Cambridge History of Judaism: 2. The Hellenistic Age (1989 Davies, Finkelstein), edited volume

Biography

• [ Wikipedia]