American professor of classics and literature (1926-2017)
This article is about the professor of classics and literature. For the botanist, see Lewis J. Feldman.
Louis Feldman
Courtesy of Yeshiva University
Born
(1926-10-29)October 29, 1926
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Died
March 25, 2017(2017-03-25) (aged 90)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Trinity College Harvard University
Occupation(s)
Professor of Classics and Literature
Employer
Yeshiva University
Known for
Scholar of Hellenistic civilization
Louis Harry Feldman (October 29, 1926 – March 25, 2017) was an American professor of classics and literature. He was the Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University, the institution at which he taught since 1955.[1]
Feldman was a scholar of Hellenistic civilization, specifically the works of Josephus Flavius. Feldman's work on Josephus is widely respected by other scholars.[2][3]
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government, as interpreted out of the Hebrew Scriptures. Josephan scholar LouisFeldman highlights several of the misconceptions about the Jewish people that...
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have a range of military, administrative and fiscal responsibilities. LouisFeldman says that Philo (who died AD 50) and Josephus also use the term "procurator"...
during this period the tax was levied even on those above the age of 62. LouisFeldman argues that the increased harshness was caused by the success of the...
either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed to it. According to LouisFeldman, the term "antisemitism" is an "absurdity which the Jews took over from...
that the Jewish agitator Chrestus could be someone other than Christ. LouisFeldman states that most scholars assume that in the reference Jesus is meant...
cities formerly taken by Shapur I and besieged Ctesiphon. The historian LouisFeldman rejected Henning's proposals; and the historian Trevor Bryce concluded...
12th-century Syriac version of Josephus by Michael the Syrian. Leading scholar LouisFeldman stated that the discovery of Pines "created a considerable stir" in...
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point of suggesting that the Jews and not the Romans crucified Jesus. LouisFeldman states that the question "is Josephus the author of the additions and...
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1889)". Van Voorst, p. 43. Newton, pp. 96–97. Meier, pp. 168–171. See LouisFeldman (translator), Josephus, Loeb Library, Volume 12, Jewish Antiquities...
October 2008 at the Wayback Machine. 2 August 2007, JTA Breaking News. Louis H. Feldman (2006). Judaism And Hellenism Reconsidered. Brill. Goodman, Martin...
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