Chaim Rabin
Chaim Menachem Rabin (born November 22, 1915 in Giessen ; died May 13, 1996 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli Hebraist and linguist born in Germany.
Life
Chaim Menachem Rabin was a son of the Russian-German historian Israel Rabin and Martel Wolodarsky (died 1980). His sister Miriam Ben-Peretz , born in 1927, became a curriculum researcher, his brother Michael Oser Rabin , born in 1931, became a computer scientist.
He was friends with Franz Baermann Steiner , among others . The text finds from Qumran formed a focus of his research . He was a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for Hebrew and Semitic languages .
Rabin's interests spanned all aspects of Hebrew linguistics, even Arabic , particularly translations of the ancient language of the Bible , the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the detailed study of medieval codices. He was the editor-in-chief of the Hebrew University Bible Edition .
Rabin also influenced the dictionary of the modern Israeli language published in Israel. He did pioneering work in training Israeli translators .
Rabin was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language founded in 1953 .
Fonts (selection)
- with Hayim M. Nahmad: Everyday Arabic: conversations in Syrian and Palestinian colloquial Arabic with vocabulary phonetic and grammatical introduction lists of useful culinary, military, political and commercial terms. With a foreword by HAR Gibb . Philadelphia: McKay, [1940?]
- Arabic Reader . London: Lund Humphries 1947.
- Hebrew Reader . London: Lund Humphries 1949.
- Ancient West Arabian . London: Taylor's Foreign Press 1951.
- Maimonides , The guide of the perplexed , introduction and commentary by Julius Guttmann . Translated from the Arabic by Chaim Rabin. London: East and West Library 1952.
- The Zadokite Documents . Oxford: Clarendon 1954
- "Alexander Jannaeus and the Pharisees". in: Journal of Jewish Studies 7 (1956), pp. 3-11.
- Qumran Studies . Oxford 1957
- Aspects of the Dead Sea scrolls. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1958
- "The Linguistics of Translation". in: AD Booth (ed.), Aspects of Translation (Studies in Communications 2), London: Secker & Warburg 1958, pp. 123ff
- Studies in the Bible: edited on behalf of the Institute of Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Humanities . Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University 1961
- "Etymological Miscellanea", in: Scripta Hierosolymitana 8 (1961), pp. 384-400.
- Essays on the Dead Sea scrolls. In memory of EL Sukenik . Jerusalem: Hekhal Ha-Sefer, 1961
- Jigael Jadin (edited with commentary), The scroll of the War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness , translated by Batya and Chaim Rabin. London: Oxford University Press 1962.
- The renaissance of the Hebrew language. Zurich: Israel Information Office, [1963]
- with Jigael Jadin : Aspects of the Dead Sea scrolls . Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University 1965
- The influence of different systems of Hebrew orthography on reading Efficiency . Jerusalem: The Israel Institute of Applied Social Research 1968.
- Thesaurus of the Hebrew language in dictionary form. Jerusalem: Kiryat Sepher, 1970–1973
- Thesaurus of the Hebrew ...; Volume I. 1970
- Thesaurus of the Hebrew ...; Volume II. 1973
- Qumran Studies. New York, Schocken, 1975.
- Chaim Rabin (Editor): Bible Translation: An Introduction. Israel: Bialik, 1984 (first published in Hebrew in: Encyclopaedia biblica, 8 (1982), 737-870)
- The development of the Hebrew language. Wiesbaden: Reichert in Komm., 1988 (publications of the Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies, No. 2)
- Rabin, Chaim and Zvi Raday: Otsar ha-milim. Milim, tserufim e-imred. (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Language in Dictionary Form. Edited by Chaim Rabin and Dr. Zvi Raday. 3 volumes. Jerusalem, Sivan Press (1988) [Contains: 1.) Volume 1. AL; 2.) Volume 2. MP; 3.) Volume 3. TZ-T.]
- Professor Chaim Rabin, Dr. Tzvi Raday: Hamilon HeHadash LaTanach (The New Bible Dictionary). Hebrew, 3 volumes. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1989
- Semitic Languages - An Introduction. The Bialik Institute (Mosad Bialik) 1991
- Linguistic Studies: Collected Papers in Hebrew and Semitic Languages. Jerusalem, Israel: Bialik Institute, 1999
- The development of the syntax of post-biblical Hebrew . Suffer; Boston: Brill 2000. ISBN 90-04-11433-5 .
literature
- HG Adler : About Franz Baermann Steiner . Letter to Chaim Rabin. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006; ISBN 3-8353-0028-8
- Moshe H. Goshen-Gottstein , Shlomo Morag, Simcha Kogut (eds.), Studies on Hebrew and other Semitic languages presented to Chaim Rabin . Jerusalem: Academon Press 1990.
- Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945. Entry on Chaim Rabin (accessed: April 15, 2018)
- Rabin, Chaim Menachem , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 934
Web links
- Institutional Career - Homepage of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Obituary in Freiburg circular 4/1996
- Short obituary of the translation scholars
- Literature by and about Chaim Rabin in the catalog of the German National Library
- A Short History of the Hebrew Language by Chaim Rabin
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rabin, Chaim |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rabin, Chaim Menachem (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli Hebrew, linguist and university lecturer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1915 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1996 |
Place of death | Jerusalem |