Abraham Malamat

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Abraham Malamat (also: Avraham Malamat, מלמט אברהם, former first name: Alfons; born January 26, 1922 in Vienna ; died January 21, 2010 in Jerusalem ) was an Austrian-Israeli historian .

Life

Abraham Malamat grew up in a Jewish family . He was born the son of the textile merchant Nathan Malamut and his wife Leah, a journalist. He attended elementary school and high school in Vienna. Due to the flare - up of anti-Semitism , he emigrated to Israel with his parents in 1935 at the age of 13 . After a stay in Haifa , the family lived in Tel Aviv , where he attended Balfour High School. In 1940 he began studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in the faculties of Hebrew, Bible, and Biblical Historyand psychology and at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem . With the establishment of the Israeli Army (IDF), he was drafted during the War of Independence . In 1950 he completed his doctoral thesis under the title “Ardennes region of Mesopotamia and the emergence of its lands” under Benjamin Mazar , the “father” of biblical archeology . In 1951 he married Na'ama, nee Schneiderman. The daughter Talia emerged from the marriage. In 1952 the family moved to Chicago , USA, where he worked for two years as part of a habilitation at the Institute for Classical Studies . In 1954 he returned to Israel and taught at Haifa University from 1955 to 1975 .

Act

In addition to his teaching activities, Malamat wrote over 300 scriptures and eight books in several languages. The focus of his scientific work was the early history of the Jews . In 1961 he went to the Middle East Department of the University of Philadelphia . In 1964 he became Associate Professor and in 1970 Full Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he became Head of the Department of History of the People of Israel . From 1976 to 1977 he went to the University of Oxford , taught from 1985 to 1986 at Yale University and in 1991 at New York University . Through the research of Malamat and Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson (1914–1977), the doubts expressed by historians about the historical truth of the Book of Exodus (Exodus) were significantly reduced.

Memberships

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Mari And The Early Israelite Experience. In: Schweich, Lectures on Biblical Archeology , Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York (1990) ISBN 0-19-726072-1 .
  • History Of Biblical Israel: Major Problems And Minor Issues. Series Culture and History of the Ancient Near East # 7, Brill, Leiden / Boston (2001) ISBN 90-04-12009-2 .
  • Mari and the Bible . In: Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East , V. 12, Brill Academic Publishers, 1998, ISBN 90-04-10863-7
  • Ancient Israel in Egypt and the Exodus , Susan Laden, 2012
  • Nili S. Fox, Abraham Malamat: History of Biblical Israel: Major Problems and Minor Issues. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. The American Schools of Oriental Research, 2002, p. 90, doi: 10.2307 / 1357868 .
  • The Davidic and Solomonic Kingdoms and its Relations with Egypt and Syria. On the creation of a great empire. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (1983) ISBN 3-7001-0562-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shmuel Ahituv, Professor Abraham Malamat 1922-2010 , Society of Biblical Literature. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Abraham Malamat, Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson: A History of the Jewish People . Harvard University Press, 1976, ISBN 978-0-674-39731-6 , pp. 3– ( google.com ).
  3. ^ Abraham Malamat , University of Vienna. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Malamat, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malamat, Avraham; Malamat, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2010
Place of death Jerusalem