Shemaryahu Talmon (1920-2010), scholar
Shemaryahu Talmon (1920-2010) was an Israeli scholar.
Biography
Shemaryahu Talmon was born in Poland. 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 on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- King, Cult, and Calendar in Ancient Israel: Collected Studies (Jerusalem 1986)
- The World of Qumran from Within: Collected Essays (Jerusalem/Leiden 1989)
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