Shemaryahu Talmon

[1] A Holocaust survivor from Buchenwald concentration camp, Talmon immigrated to Mandatory Palestine and became a prominent biblical scholar, contributing significantly to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible.[3] He worked with Moshe Goshen-Gottstein and Chaim Rabin on the Hebrew University Bible Project, and after their deaths served as its editor in chief.He combined his interest in the scrolls and sociology to study the nature and history of the "community of the renewed covenant."[3] In interfaith activities he was a leader in international Jewish-Christian dialogue, working with the World Council of Churches and the Vatican.[3] In December 2008, Talmon donated a library of 10,000 volumes, mostly in Biblical studies, to the Shalom Hartman Institute.
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