Nehemiah Gordon

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Nehemiah Gordon ( Hebrew נחמיה גורדון) (Born January 1, 1972 in Chicago , United States ) is a rabbi and Bible researcher on the origins of Judaism and Christianity . He became known as the translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls . He worked for several years with the biblical scholar Emanuel Tov and belongs to the Jewish ethnic group of the Karaim .

Life

Nehemia Grodon was born in 1972 in the American state of Illinois to an Orthodox Jewish family. He comes from an old family of rabbis and also completed a classically Orthodox rabbinical training. As a youth, however, he rejected the oral tradition of the Mosaic Law ( Mishnah ) and the Talmud from an early age .

In 1993 he emigrated to Israel and settled in the old city of Jerusalem . He became a member of Karaean Judaism and has since served on the board of directors of the Jerusalem Kenessa . He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and participated in the Dead Sea Scrolls publication project coordinated by Emanuel Tov and the Hebrew University Bible project under the auspices of Shemaryahu Talmon .

In 1999, Gordon co-founded a global Karaite movement and a number of other Karaean institutions, and also conducted scientific research to highlight the superiority of Karaism over Orthodox Judaism. This research also led him to re-discuss Jesus and the New Testament. 2007–2008 he was dean of Karaite Jewish University. Gordon regularly travels to America and takes part in various television discussions.

Publications

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Part 1. Texts Concerned with Religious Law ISBN 90-04-12650-3
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Part 2. Exegetical Texts ISBN 90-04-12648-1
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Part 6. Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts ISBN 90-04-12646-5
  • As It Is Written: A Brief Case for Karaism by Shawn Lichaa, Nehemia Gordon, and Meir Rekhavi ISBN 0-9762637-1-8
  • The Pronunciation of the Name .
  • The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus ISBN 0-9762637-0-X
  • A Prayer to Our Father: Hebrew Origins of the Lord's Prayer by Nehemia Gordon and Keith Johnson ISBN 0-9762637-4-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Orion Center Bibliography of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (2000-2006)  (= Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah). BRILL, 2007, ISBN 9789047423676 , doi : 10.1163 / ej.9789004164376.i-330 .
  2. ↑ Библиография Караитика: Аннотированная Библиография Караимов И Караимизма  . (= Karaite texts and studies), Vol Vol 2. BRILL, 2011, ISBN 9789004189270 .
  3. ^ The Sons of Scripture: The Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the Twentieth Century . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 9783110425260 .
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Nehemiah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gordon, Nehemiah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish-American biblical scholar, editor, and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States