Moshe Greenberg

Moshe Greenberg (Hebrew משה גרינברג; * July 10, 1928 in Philadelphia, † 15 May, 2010 Jerusalem ) was an American- Israeli Jewish religious scholars, Judaic scholar and university teacher.

Biography

After school he studied Biblical Studies and Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1954 with the graduation to Doctor Theologiae from. At the same time he studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary ( Jewish Theological Seminary of America ) Judaica and, after its completion, the ordination as a rabbi.

In 1964 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Studies and Judaica at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1970, he finally emigrated to Israel and took there a reputation as a professor of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Greenberg was one of the most important Jewish biblical scholars and dealt among other things with the Sabbath as well as the books of Moses and Ezekiel, to whom he wrote a two-volume commentary in which he described " as the prohibition of murder in the Abrahamic religion to an inviolable taboo because the growing faith of the human relationship with God " was.

Greenberg was in 1994 awarded first scheduling the Israel Prize for Bible studies, the highest award of the State of Israel.

Publications

  • Understanding Exodus. Behrman House, among others, New York NY, 1969 ( The Heritage of Biblical Israel 2, 1).
  • Ezekiel 1-20, Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries, 1983, ISBN 0-385-00954-2
  • Ezekiel 1-20. Herder's theological commentary on the Old Testament, Herder, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-451-26842-6
  • Ezekiel 21-37. Herder's theological commentary on the Old Testament, Herder, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-451-26843-4
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