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David Daube (born February 8, 1909 in Freiburg ; † February 24, 1999 in Berkeley , United States ) taught law as Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford and later as Professor-in-Residence at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

As the second child of an Orthodox Jewish family, David Daube first attended the Berthold-Gymnasium in Freiburg. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the universities of Freiburg and Göttingen. Fearing persecution by the National Socialists, he switched to the University of Cambridge after graduating , where he received his PhD in 1936 . He was recognized worldwide for his research on Roman law , Hebrew law , biblical legal history and ethics . Daube saw it as the aim of his work to build bridges between Christians and Jews.

Career

  • 1938–1946 Fellow at Gonville and Caius College , University of Cambridge (Honorary fellow, 1974)
  • 1946–1951 Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge
  • 1951–1955 Professor of Law, University of Aberdeen
  • 1955–1970 Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford, and Fellow at All Souls College , University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, 1980
  • 1966 honorary professor, University of Konstanz
  • 1970–1999 Emeritus Professor of Law, Oxford
  • 1970–1981 Director of the Robbins Hebraic and Roman Law Collections and Professor-in-Residence at the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1981–1999 Emeritus Professor of Law, Berkeley

Academic positions and honors

student

In addition to Calum Carmichael and William David Davies , Daube's students included Charles Kingsley Barrett , Durham (UK), Saul J. Berman , Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (Riverdale, New York), Davi Ascher Strauss Bernstein , University of Chicago , David Cohen , University of California , Berkeley , William Frankel , (AM) Tony Honoré , Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford), Bernard Jackson , Manchester and Liverpool; Fergus Millar , Oxford; Stephen Passamaneck , Hebrew Union College , Alan Rodger , Supreme Court Justice of the United Kingdom , EP Sanders , Duke University , Peter Gonville Stein , Regius Professor of Civil Law (Cambridge) , Géza Vermes , Oxford, Alan Watson, Georgia, Edinburgh and Belgrade, Reuven Yaron , Hebrew University Jerusalem.

Publications

  • Studies in Biblical Law, 1947
  • The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism, 1956
  • Forms of Roman Legislation, 1956
  • (with WD Davies) Studies in honor of CH Dodd , 1956
  • (Ed.) Studies in memory of F. de Zulueta, 1959
  • The Exodus Pattern in the Bible, 1963
  • The Sudden in the Scriptures, 1964
  • Collaboration with Tyranny in Rabbinic Law, 1965
  • He that Cometh, 1966
  • Roman Law, 1969
  • Civil Disobedience in Antiquity, 1972
  • Ancient Hebrew Fables, 1973
  • Wine in the Bible, 1975
  • Medical and Genetic Ethics, 1976
  • Duty of Procreation, 1977
  • Typology in the work of Flavius ​​Josephus, 1977
  • Ancient Jewish Law, 1981
  • Birth of the detective story, 1983
  • The Old Testament in the New, 1984
  • Sons and Strangers, 1984
  • (with C. Carmichael) Witnesses in Bible and Talmud, 1986
  • Appeasement or Resistance and other essays on New Testament Judaism, 1987
  • Festschriften: Daube Noster, 1974
  • Studies in Jewish Legal History in Honor of David Daube, 1974
  • Donum Gentilicon, 1978
  • Berkeley and Oxford Symposium in Honor of David Daube, 1993
  • The Deed and the Doer in the Bible: David Daube's Gifford Lectures, Volume 1 , 2008, Templeton Foundation Press

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members . In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . No. 1999 , 2000, pp. 21 .
  2. ↑ Member entry by David Daube (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 23, 2017.


personal data
SURNAME Daube, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American legal scholar, exegete
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1999
Place of death Berkeley , United States