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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | E J Bickerman; E J Bickerman; Elias J Bickerman; E J Bickerman; Elias J Bickerman |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Albert I Baumgarten |
ISBN: | 9783161501715 3161501713 |
OCLC Number: | 527702765 |
Description: | x, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | An historian's past -- Father and son -- Becoming a historian -- The Nazi era: 1933-1942 -- From Life to Work -- The chain of scholarly tradition: Scaliger, Bernays, and the Philosophies -- The jury of his peers: Täubler, Tcherikover, Momigliano, and Smith -- The Jews who got it wrong: the Hellenizing reformers -- The Jews who got it right: Maccabees, Pharisees, Rabbis and Diaspora Jews -- Conclusion: the "captive child" returns home. |
Series Title: | Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 131. |
Responsibility: | Albert I. Baumgarten. |
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Abstract:
"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 Bickerman's scholarly production." --Back cover.
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