Background
Talmon was born in Poland in 1920, he grew up and studied in the city of Breslau, then in Germany, before the start of World World War World War II
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Shemaryahu Talmon
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He was educated at the Jüdisches Reform-Real Gymnasium in Breslau, Germany. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956.
Career
He died on December 15, 2010. He was a detainee at Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust. His thesis was on the text and versions of the Tanach, especially "double meanings" in Biblical texts.
He has subsequently extended and refined his thesis, and has contributed to many areas of biblical study.
He worked with Moshe Goshen-Gottstein and Chaim Rabin on the Hebrew University Bible Project, and since their deaths has served as its editor in chief He has also done work in the area of sociology.
His work has helped to advance the understanding of the biblical text, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls. He combined his interest in the scrolls and sociology to study the nature and history of the "community of the renewed covenant."
In the area of Biblical education, he was director for educational institutions in the Immigration Camps in Cyprus (1947-1948).
He has taught at the major Israeli universities and been a visiting professor at many institutions throughout the world.
He was the rector of the University of Haifa and of the Institute of Judaic Studies at the College of Jewish Studies at Heidelberg, dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University. In December 2008, Talmon donated a library of 10,000 volumes, mostly in Biblical studies, to the Shalom Hartman Institute.
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Nationality
Israel
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Israel Prize In 1997, Talmon was awarded the Israel Prize, for Biblical studies.
The Israel Prize (Hebrew: פרס ישראל) is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is generally regarded as the state's highest honor.The Israel Prize (Hebrew: פרס ישראל) is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is generally regarded as the state's highest honor.