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Elias Bickerman as a historian of the Jews : a twentieth century tale / Albert I. Baumgarten.
- Title
- Elias Bickerman as a historian of the Jews : a twentieth century tale / Albert I. Baumgarten.
- Author
- Baumgarten, Albert I.
- Publication
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- x, 377 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Series Statement
- Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 131 = Texts and studies in ancient Judaism ; 131, 0721-8753
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9783161501715 (hd.bd.)
- LCCN
- 9783161501715
- OCLC
- 527702765
- SCSB-10821857
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library