Seligmann Baer

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Seligmann Baer

Seligmann Baer (born September 18, 1825 in Mosbach , now Wiesbaden ; † March 31, 1897 in Biebrich, ibid) was a German Jewish scholar and Masora specialist. Various editions of the Bible and works on the Jewish liturgy come from him.

life and work

Title page of the Seder Avodat Yisroel edition from 1901

Baer belongs to the school of Wolf Heidenheim , who also bequeathed some of his manuscripts to him and who continued to pursue Baer's methodology and plans for the edition of liturgical texts.

In 1852, Baer published a description of biblical hymn poetry, Torat Emet .

Many of Baer's publications were created in collaboration with his friend Franz Delitzsch , who financed the publications and used Baer as co-editor for his critical text edition of the Old Testament. This previously appeared as early as 1860 in the Commentary on the Psalms as an addition to Baer's account of the accentuation system of the Psalms, the Book of Job and the Proverbs . Further editions followed with the inclusion of the Masoretic text , in a second edition of the above-mentioned work also with the addition of the transmission of Jerome . The jointly edited text edition, published from 1869 to 1895, remained unfinished; Exodus and Deuteronomy did not appear. It contains the following books: 1869 Genesis, 1872 Isaiah, 1875 Job, 1878 Minor Prophets , 1880 Psalms, 1880 Proverbs of Solomon, 1882 Daniel, Esra, Nehemia, 1884 Ezekiel, 1885 Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Kohelet, Esther, 1888 books of the Chronicle, 1890 Jeremiah, 1891 Joshua, Judge, 1892 Books of Samuel, 1895 Books of Kings.

In 1867 Baer submitted an analysis of the secondary tone accent ( Die Methegetzung ).

One of the main works is the Seder Avodat Yisroel , published in 1868 , an extensive collection of Jewish prayers with detailed explanations ( Yakhin Lashon ).

In 1879, together with Hermann Leberecht Strack , Baer edited the grammatical textbook Diqduqe ha-Teamim by Aaron ben Ascher (Leipzig 1879).

reception

Baer's Masoretic text edition was widely received as an adequate rendering of the Masoretic tradition; Christian David Ginsburg and Emil Kautzsch were also critical. For his part, Baer criticized Ginsburg's Masora edition. Bruno Baentsch criticizes some "quirks", for example that Baer "placed undue weight on the artifice and subtleties of later punctuators (the so-called Naqdanim) and sometimes failed to apply the correct critical method when accepting readings".

The text constituted by Baer was also included in the Vilna rabbinical biblical edition Mikra'ot Gedolot .

At Delitzsch's suggestion, Baer also received his doctorate in philosophy in absentia in 1876 ​​at the University of Leipzig . However, Baer never held an academic position. The city of Biebrich granted Baer honorary citizenship in 1882.

His interpretation and dating of texts were considered authoritative for later translations, e.g. B. by Adolph Neubauer .

Baer's liturgical editions were used in many synagogues; Many subsequent editions of Siddur can be traced back to Avodat Yisrael .

Works

  • Seder Avodat Yisroel , Rödelheim, 1868

literature

Web links

Commons : Seligman Baer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in Adalbert Merx ' Archive for Scientific Research into the Old Testament : Die Metheg - Setzung, presented by S. Baer according to its traditional laws. Promoted for printing by F. Delitzsch, Vol. 1, Halle 1869, pp. 55–67 ( digitized version ); Vol. 2, pp. 194-207 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c Isaak Dov Ber Markon: Art. BAER, SELIGMAN ISAAC , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica 2. A., Vol. 3, p. 53.
  3. ^ Lawrence A. Hoffman, Beyond the Text: A Holistic Approach to Liturgy . Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 24ff
  4. ↑ Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible , London 1897.
  5. ↑ See the review in the magazine of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft 40 (1886), pp. 743–758, digitized .
  6. ^ Bruno Baentsch:  Baer, ​​Seligmann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 212 f. This refers to the review by HL Strack in: Theologische Literatur-Zeitung 8 (1879).
  7. ^ Paul Kahle : The Hebrew Ben Asher Bible Manuscripts . In: Vetum Testamentum . Brill, 1951, p. 163
personal data
SURNAME Baer, ​​Seligmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jewish scholar and Masora specialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Mosbach
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1897
Place of death Biebrich