Hermann Strack
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Hermann Leberecht Strack (6 May 1848 – 5 October 1922) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist; born in Berlin.
Hermann Leberecht Strack (6 May 1848 – 5 October 1922) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist; born in Berlin.
Selected works
Prolegomena Critica in Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum (Leipzig, 1873); Katalog der Hebräschen Bibelhandschriften der Kaiserlichen Oeffentlichen Bibliothek in St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg and Leipzig, 1875), in collaboration with A. Harkavy; Prophetarum Posteriorum Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus (ib. 1876); A. Firkowitch und Seine Entdeckungen (ib. 1876); editions of the Mishnah tractates Abot (Carlsruhe, 1882; 2d ed. Berlin, 1888), Yoma (ib. 1888), 'Abodah Zarah (ib. 1888), and Shabbat (ib. 1890); Hebräische Grammatik (Karlsruhe, 1883; 3d ed. Munchen, 1902); Hebrew Grammar (Berlin-London-New York, 1889; 2nd English ed.) Lehrbuch der Neuhebräischen Sprache und Litteratur (ib. 1884), in collaboration with Karl Siegfried; Herr Adolf Stöcker (ib. 1885; 2d ed. 1886); Einleitung in den Talmud (Leipzig, 1887; 2d ed. 1894), a revised reprint of his article on the subject in Herzog-Hauck's Real-Encyklopädie, to which he made a whole series of contributions on rabbinic subjects; Paradigmen zur Hebräischen Grammatik (Leipzig, 1887) Einleitung in das Alte Testament (Nördlingen, 1888; 5th ed. Munich, 1898); Der Blutaberglaube in der Menschheit, Blutmorde und Blutritus (ib. 1891; 5th ed. 1900), an investigation into the blood libel; Die Juden - Dürfen Sie 'Verbrecher von Religionswegen' genannt werden? (Berlin, 1893); Abriss des Biblischen Aramäisch (Leipzig, 1897). Jüdische Geheimgesetze? Mit 3 Anh.: Rohling, Ecker und kein Ende?. Artur Dinter u. Kunst, Wissenschaft, Vaterland. "Die Weisen von Zion" und ihre Gläubigen (Berlin 1920; ib. 3rd and 4th ed. 1921). Introduction to the Talmud & Midrash (1931), Jewish Publication Society of America, based on the 5th Edition of Einleitung in den Talmud & Midrasch. Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch, with Paul Billerbeck; (1922–1928; 4 volumes). From 1886 on, Strack worked together with Zoeckler at editing the Kurzgefasster Kommentar zu den Schriften des Alten und Neuen Testaments (Nördlingen and Munich). Strack was also a member of the Foreign Board of Consulting Editors of the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Translations
The Passover Meal, translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert (Red Brick Parsonage, 2013). Luke 18 and Fasting: Commentary on Luke 18:11b,12a, translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert (Red Brick Parsonage, 2013). John 10 and Hanukkah: Commentary on John 10:22-30, translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert (Red Brick Parsonage, 2013). Commentary on Luke 7:36-50, translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert (Red Brick Parsonage, 2013). Commentary on Matthew 5:13-14, translated by Nathaniel J. Biebert (Red Brick Parsonage, 2014).
References
External links
Digitized works by Hermann Strack at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
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