Joseph Klausner (M / Lithuania, Palestine, 1874-1958), scholar
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Joseph Gedaliah Klausner (1874-1958) was a Lithuanian-born Israeli scholar.
Biography
Born in 1946 in Lithuania, lived in Odessa until he settled in Palestine from 1919. Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since its foundation in 1925. Exercised great influence on shaping Jewish scholarship in the field even outside Israel.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Jesus <Hebrew> (1907)
- Jesus (1925)
- Bi-yeme bayit sheni <Hebrew> (1923)
- Ha-historyah shel ha-bayit ha-sheni <Hebrew> (2nd ed. 1944)
- History of the Second Temple (1950)
- The Messianic Idea in Israel <Hebrew> (1925; ET 1955).
- The Messianic Idea in Israel: From Its Beginning to the Completion of the Mishnah (1955)