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The Contribution of Jonas Greenfield To the Study of Dead Sea Literature

The Contribution of Jonas Greenfield To the Study of Dead Sea Literature THE CONTRIBUTION OF JONAS GREENFIELD TO THE STUDY OF DEAD SEA LITERATURE BARUCH A. LEVINE New York University I am thankful for the occasion to discuss Jonas Greenfield's con- tribution to the study of Dead Sea Literature. His untimely passing has left a great void in this, as in other scholarly fields. The loss was also personal: Jonas was a close colleague and dear friend for more than thirty years. I simply cannot refer to him as "Greenfield"; it is too impersonal. I will either give his full name, or identify him as "Jonas." For me, there is special significance to the present undertaking: Before Jonas passed away, he had been editing a collection of docu- ments from Nahal Hever, written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Nabatean- Aramaic, and originally discovered by Yigael Yadin. These docu- ments, which date to the Bar Kochba Period and before, had become his central project, and he had been moving ahead with it at a rapid pace in recent years. After Jonas' death, I accepted the assignment of bringing his project to completion, and will continue to work together with Ada Yardeni, who had been Jonas' collaborator on the Nahal Hever documents for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dead Sea Discoveries Brill

The Contribution of Jonas Greenfield To the Study of Dead Sea Literature

Levine, Baruch A.
Dead Sea Discoveries , Volume 3 (1): 2 – Jan 1, 1996
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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0929-0761
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10.1163/156851796X00282
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THE CONTRIBUTION OF JONAS GREENFIELD TO THE STUDY OF DEAD SEA LITERATURE BARUCH A. LEVINE New York University I am thankful for the occasion to discuss Jonas Greenfield's con- tribution to the study of Dead Sea Literature. His untimely passing has left a great void in this, as in other scholarly fields. The loss was also personal: Jonas was a close colleague and dear friend for more than thirty years. I simply cannot refer to him as "Greenfield"; it is too impersonal. I will either give his full name, or identify him as "Jonas." For me, there is special significance to the present undertaking: Before Jonas passed away, he had been editing a collection of docu- ments from Nahal Hever, written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Nabatean- Aramaic, and originally discovered by Yigael Yadin. These docu- ments, which date to the Bar Kochba Period and before, had become his central project, and he had been moving ahead with it at a rapid pace in recent years. After Jonas' death, I accepted the assignment of bringing his project to completion, and will continue to work together with Ada Yardeni, who had been Jonas' collaborator on the Nahal Hever documents for

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Published: Jan 1, 1996

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