Elias Bickerman on the Hellenizing reformers: a case study of an unconvincing case.(Critical essay)

From: The Jewish Quarterly Review | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The first draft of this article was written when my mother, Sabine Baumgarten Berkowitz, was in her last days. It is being completed after her death and is dedicated to her memory.

ELIAS J. BICKERMAN (1897-1981), one of the twentieth century's outstanding historians of Judaism in antiquity, was born in Kishineff and educated in St. Petersburg. He and his family escaped Russia for Berlin in 1922, in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. He completed his education in Germany and was appointed privat-dozent at the Institut fur Altertumskunde at the University of Berlin in ...

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