Chaim Rabin

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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 .

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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