Moshe Weinfeld | |
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| משה ויינפלד | |
| Born | 27 August 1925 |
| Died | 29 April 2009 (aged 83) |
| Occupations | Biblical scholar, professor |
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| Education | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Moshe Weinfeld (also Weinfield, Hebrew: משה ויינפלד; August 27, 1925 – April 29, 2009) was a professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1994, he won the Israel Prize for Bible.
Moshe Weinfeld was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland. In 1965, Weinfeld earned a PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to his emigration to Palestine in 1947, he survived the Nazi Holocaust—90% of the Jews in the village where he was born died after it was taken in September 1939 and over the course of what followed in the ghettoes and camps amidst the Disaster.
Weinfeld went on to become one of the leading scholars of his generation in historical inquiry and investigations of the source of the origins of the Torah and in particular of the Book of Deuteronomy (which he, like other scholars, held to be one of the most ancient sections of the laws and teachings). In 1969, he was appointed senior lecturer in Hebrew University's Bible department. In 1973, Weinfeld became associate professor, and was promoted to full professor in 1978.
Weinfeld taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1967–1969); Brandeis University (1968); University of California, San Diego (1981); University of California, Berkeley (1989).
