Albert I Baumgarten
Biographic Data
| ID | 1422832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert I Baumgarten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert I |
| FAMILY NAME | Baumgarten |
| SIGNATURE | BAUMGARTEN A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
John the Baptist
My contribution focuses on the ‘Competition Thesis’ between John, Jesus and their disciples in reconstructing the life of the Baptist. One great merit of JBHT is adopting the Competition Thesis. When summarizing, guided by the Competition Thesis, Marcus first plays the devil’s advocate, enumerating the reasons that John should be seen as an independent figure claiming for himself the leading place in the scenario of end times. However, Marcus’s c…
The Preface to the Hebrew Translation of Purity and Danger
Purity and Danger , published in 1966, remains Dame Mary Douglas’s most famous book and “The Abominations of Leviticus” its most widely read chapter. In 2005, only two years before her death and in preparation for the Hebrew translation of Purity and Danger , which appeared in 2010, Douglas wrote a preface for that publication. With the likely interests of the Hebrew reader in mind, the preface expresses Douglas’s final reflections on the history…
Young Men in Israeli Haredi Yeshiva Education
Young Men in Israeli Haredi Yeshiva Education: the scholar's enclave in unrest." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 15(2), pp. 335–336
Sacred scriptures defile the hands
This article takes up the paradoxical crux of sacred scriptures defiling hands and offers a solution based on tKelim , BM 5:8, which discusses the protection offered by the Temple courtyard against certain texts defiling hands. While just which texts enjoyed this protection depends on the interpretation of this source, that the Temple courtyard offered some sort of protection against sacred scriptures defiling hands is beyond doubt. I propose tha…
To the Editor
Devorah Dimant, with the Assistance of Ingo Kottsieper
Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews
Albert Baumgarten presents the biography of one of the most distinguished historians of the Jews in antiquity that demonstrates the important connections between his scholarship, life, and times. The events of the twentieth century provide the context for the analysis of Bickermans scholarly production.
Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews
Elias Bickerman on the Hellenizing Reformers
This article focuses on Elias Bickerman's analysis of the extreme Hellenizing Jewish reformers, whom he considered to be the instigators of the events that culminated in the persecutions of Antiochus IV, which led in turn to the revolution of the Maccabees. Unlike many of Bickerman's other contributions to the study of the Jews in antiquity, this argument was not that successful, and relatively few other scholars have followed his lead. I suggest…
But Touch the Law and the Sect Will Split
My intention in this paper is to take issue with a view widely held among scholars in the field, an opinion I shared in the past but that I have also questioned and ultimately come to reject. To set the stage for accomplishing this goal let me begin with a definition of a historian offered by my late teacher, Professor Elias Bickerman. He called a historian a "digger in texts." The comparison to an archeologist, who digs in the ground, is enlight…
Index of Names and Subjects
Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series
Preliminary Material
Representation in religion
The role of representation in religion is complex. While often perceived as essential, it is also associated in many traditions with the liability of idolatry and provokes iconoclasm. The essays in this volume examine the nuances of representation in religion and the debate concerning its place across a variety of traditions from the three Abrahamic faiths, to those of antiquity and the East. This volume consists of presentations made at an inter…
The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era
Marcel Simon's Verus Israel as a Contribution to Jewish History
Marcel Simon (1907–1986) wrote many articles and published a number of books during a long, active career as a scholar. Yet he remains most prominently associated with the first of his books, Verus Israel , initially submitted as a dissertation. Published in 1948, Verus Israel was revised with the addition of a lengthy post-script in the original French in 1964, and translated into English in 1986. Based on research virtually complete before the …
Finding Oneself in a Sectarian Context
Self, soul, and body in religious experience
He Knew That He Knew That He Knew That He Was an Essene
Une relation intime entre les crises du II e siecle avant notre ere et les Esseniens (ainsi que d'autres mouvements sectaires juifs) a souvent ete mise en avant par les specialistes. Le sectarisme comme phenomene dominant du judaisme semble etre intervenu par vagues progressives entrecoupees de periode de tranquilite. Les Esseniens de Qumran fournissent le temoignage le plus net de cette crise profonde qui affecte l'ordre essenien et qui depasse …
Josephus on Essene Sacrifice
Flavius Josephe, dans Les Antiquites (18.1.519), commente le sacrifice essenien. Cela souleve des problemes discutes encore maintenant. L'A. propose une interpretation de ce passage mysterieux dont il pretend resoudre les difficultes en recherchant les sources de ce texte. Apres avoir etabli puis traduit cette pericope, il passe a une analyse hermeneutique poussee en comparant les donnees du texte avec ce que nous connaissons des Esseniens aujour…
The Pharisaic Paradosis
When historical reconstruction of the nature of a person or a group is carried out under ideal circumstances, we should have two kinds of evidence: we should know the self description of the subject, and be able to compare this self description with the way the subject was seen by others. These two types of evidence give historians the perspective which should allow them to draw a wellrounded portrait of the nature of their subject. When viewed i…
The Torah as a public document in Judaism
The Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos
Miracles and Halakah in Rabbinic Judaism
(Rabbi Judah i aNnd His Opponents *)
Sforno and Berossus
(Rabbi Judah i aNnd His Opponents *)
Miracles and Halakah in Rabbinic Judaism
The Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos
The Torah as a public document in Judaism
The Pharisaic Paradosis
When historical reconstruction of the nature of a person or a group is carried out under ideal circumstances, we should have two kinds of evidence: we should know the self description of the subject, and be able to compare this self description with the way the subject was seen by others. These two types of evidence give historians the perspective which should allow them to draw a wellrounded portrait of the nature of their subject. When viewed i…
Josephus on Essene Sacrifice
Flavius Josephe, dans Les Antiquites (18.1.519), commente le sacrifice essenien. Cela souleve des problemes discutes encore maintenant. L'A. propose une interpretation de ce passage mysterieux dont il pretend resoudre les difficultes en recherchant les sources de ce texte. Apres avoir etabli puis traduit cette pericope, il passe a une analyse hermeneutique poussee en comparant les donnees du texte avec ce que nous connaissons des Esseniens aujour…
He Knew That He Knew That He Knew That He Was an Essene
Une relation intime entre les crises du II e siecle avant notre ere et les Esseniens (ainsi que d'autres mouvements sectaires juifs) a souvent ete mise en avant par les specialistes. Le sectarisme comme phenomene dominant du judaisme semble etre intervenu par vagues progressives entrecoupees de periode de tranquilite. Les Esseniens de Qumran fournissent le temoignage le plus net de cette crise profonde qui affecte l'ordre essenien et qui depasse …
Finding Oneself in a Sectarian Context
Self, soul, and body in religious experience
Marcel Simon's Verus Israel as a Contribution to Jewish History
Marcel Simon (1907–1986) wrote many articles and published a number of books during a long, active career as a scholar. Yet he remains most prominently associated with the first of his books, Verus Israel , initially submitted as a dissertation. Published in 1948, Verus Israel was revised with the addition of a lengthy post-script in the original French in 1964, and translated into English in 1986. Based on research virtually complete before the …
Representation in religion
The role of representation in religion is complex. While often perceived as essential, it is also associated in many traditions with the liability of idolatry and provokes iconoclasm. The essays in this volume examine the nuances of representation in religion and the debate concerning its place across a variety of traditions from the three Abrahamic faiths, to those of antiquity and the East. This volume consists of presentations made at an inter…
The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era
Index of Names and Subjects
Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series
Preliminary Material
But Touch the Law and the Sect Will Split
My intention in this paper is to take issue with a view widely held among scholars in the field, an opinion I shared in the past but that I have also questioned and ultimately come to reject. To set the stage for accomplishing this goal let me begin with a definition of a historian offered by my late teacher, Professor Elias Bickerman. He called a historian a "digger in texts." The comparison to an archeologist, who digs in the ground, is enlight…
Elias Bickerman on the Hellenizing Reformers
This article focuses on Elias Bickerman's analysis of the extreme Hellenizing Jewish reformers, whom he considered to be the instigators of the events that culminated in the persecutions of Antiochus IV, which led in turn to the revolution of the Maccabees. Unlike many of Bickerman's other contributions to the study of the Jews in antiquity, this argument was not that successful, and relatively few other scholars have followed his lead. I suggest…
Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews
Albert Baumgarten presents the biography of one of the most distinguished historians of the Jews in antiquity that demonstrates the important connections between his scholarship, life, and times. The events of the twentieth century provide the context for the analysis of Bickermans scholarly production.
Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews
To the Editor
Devorah Dimant, with the Assistance of Ingo Kottsieper
Young Men in Israeli Haredi Yeshiva Education
Young Men in Israeli Haredi Yeshiva Education: the scholar's enclave in unrest." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 15(2), pp. 335–336
Sacred scriptures defile the hands
This article takes up the paradoxical crux of sacred scriptures defiling hands and offers a solution based on tKelim , BM 5:8, which discusses the protection offered by the Temple courtyard against certain texts defiling hands. While just which texts enjoyed this protection depends on the interpretation of this source, that the Temple courtyard offered some sort of protection against sacred scriptures defiling hands is beyond doubt. I propose tha…
The Preface to the Hebrew Translation of Purity and Danger
Purity and Danger , published in 1966, remains Dame Mary Douglas’s most famous book and “The Abominations of Leviticus” its most widely read chapter. In 2005, only two years before her death and in preparation for the Hebrew translation of Purity and Danger , which appeared in 2010, Douglas wrote a preface for that publication. With the likely interests of the Hebrew reader in mind, the preface expresses Douglas’s final reflections on the history…
History (19 works) · History (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (10 works) · Judaism (10 works) · Theology (8 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Religious studies (7 works)