Seligman Baer
Seligmann Baer ( born September 18, 1825 Mosbach, now Wiesbaden, † March 31, 1897 in Biebrich ) was a German Jewish scholar and Masora specialist. He wrote several biblical editions of texts and works of the Jewish liturgy.
Life and work
Baer belongs to the school of Wolf Heidenheim, who bequeathed him some of his manuscripts and its methodology and projects aimed Edition liturgical texts Baer further pursued.
Many of Baer's publications in collaboration with his friend Franz Delitzsch, who financed the publication and Baer heranzog as co-editor for his critical text edition of the Old Testament. This advance was already published in 1860 in the commentary on the Psalms as an accompaniment Baer's presentation to Accentuationssystem of Psalms, the Book of Job and of Proverbs. There were other editions with the inclusion of the Masoretic text, in a second edition of that work also with addition of the transfer of Jerome. The published from 1869-1895, jointly edited text output remained unfinished; not published are Exodus and Deuteronomy. It contains the following books: 1869 Genesis, 1872 Isaiah, 1875 Job, 1878 Minor Prophets, 1880 Psalms, 1880 Proverbs, 1882 Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1884 Ezekiel, 1885 Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, 1888 books Chronicle, 1890 Jeremiah, 1891 Joshua, Judges, Samuel 1892 Books, 1895 Books of Kings.
As a major work published in 1968 is considered the Seder Avodas Yisroel, an extensive collection of Jewish prayers with detailed explanations ( Yakhin Lashon ).
Reception
Baers Masoretic text output has been widely received as adequate reproduction of the Masoretic tradition; Christian David Ginsburg and Emil Kautzsch but also expressed critical. Baer has in turn criticized the Masoretic edition Ginsburg. Bruno Baentsch criticized some " quirks " such that Baer "on artifices and subtleties later Punktatoren ( the so-called Naqdanim ) put an undue weight, and it was sometimes missing in the adoption of interpretations on the application of the right critical method ".
At the suggestion of Delitzsch also goes back that Baer in 1876 received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Leipzig in absentia. Baer, however, never held an academic position. The town of Biebrich gave Baer in 1882 an honorary citizen.
His interpretations and dating of texts were considered authoritative for future translations, eg by Adolph Neubauer.
Baer's liturgical editions were used in many synagogues; on Avodas Yisrael Siddur go many subsequent editions back.
Works
- Seder Avodas Yisroel, Roedelheim, 1868