Joseph M. Baumgarten (1928-2008), scholar

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Joseph M. Baumgarten (1928-2008) was an Austrian-born Jewish-American scholar.

Biography

Born in Vienna, Austria on September 7, 1928. His family moved to the United States in 1939 when Austria fell under Nazi rule. Was ordained a rabbi in 1950. PhD (1954) in Semitic Studies at John Hopkins University. Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Baltimore Hebrew University (Baltimore, MD), USA. Was actively in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls since the early 1950s. Died on Dicember 4, 2008.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

Edited volumes