Thursday, November 03, 2011

Obituary for Ben Zion Wacholder

AN OBITUARY FOR BEN ZION WACHOLDER, which I only came across recently on the Agade list:
Ben Zion Wacholder, 1924-2011 (AAJR)

A long-time Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Ben Zion Wacholder passed away in Roslyn Heights, New York, on March 29, 2011, at the age of 86. He had been the Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati and a major figure in the study of ancient Jewish history, especially of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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