Moshe Weinfeld (also ''Weinfield'',

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: משה ויינפלד) (August 27, 1925 - April 29, 2009), was a professor of

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at the

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. In 1994, he won the

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for

Biography

Moshe Weinfeld was born in

Nowy Sącz Nowy Sącz (; hu, Újszandec; yi, Tzanz, צאַנז; sk, Nový Sonč; german: Neu-Sandez) is a city in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sącz County as a separate administrative unit. It has ...

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. In 1965, Weinfeld earned a PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1969, he was appointed

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in Hebrew University's

department. In 1973, Weinfeld became

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, and was promoted to

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in 1978. Weinfeld taught at the

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(1967–1969);

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

(1968);

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(1981);

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(1989).

Awards and recognition

* In 1993, Weinfeld was awarded the Ben-Zvi Prize for the

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for his Hebrew book ''From Joshua to Josiah: Turning Points in the History of Israel From the Conquest of the Land Until the Fall of Judah'', Jerusalem: Magnes Press (1992). * In 1994, he was awarded the

, for Bible.

Published works

*''Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School'', Oxford: Clarendon (1972) *''‘Justice and Righteousness’ in Ancient Israel against the Background of Social Reforms in the Ancient Near East'' (Report No. 4/79), Jerusalem: Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University (1979) *''Getting at the Roots of Wellhausen’s Understanding of the Law of Israel: On the 100th Anniversary of the ‘Prolegomena’'' (Report No. 14/79), Jerusalem: Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University (1980) *''The Organizational Pattern and the Penal Code of the Qumran Sect: A Comparison with Guilds and Religious Associations of the Hellenistic-Roman Period'' (NTOA, 2), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (1986) *''Deuteronomy 1-11'' (Anchor Bible, 5), Garden City NY: Doubleday (1991) *
The Promise of the Land The Inheritance of the Land of Canaan by the Israelites
' Berkeley: University of California Press (1993) *''Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East'', Minneapolis: Fortress, Jerusalem: Magnes Press (1995) *''The Place of the Law in the Religion of Ancient Israel'' (Vetus Testamentum Supplement), Leiden: E.J. Brill (2004) *''Normative and Sectarian Judaism in the Second Temple Period'', New York: T & T Clark (2005)

References

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External links

Moshe Weinfeld: Hebrew University Faculty Page

Biography

Awards and recognition

Published works

See also

References

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