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THE JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, XCII,Nos. 1-2 (July-October, 2001) 137-143 GARY A. RENDSBURG, Cornell University Cyrus H. Gordon, one of the true giants in the fields of biblical studies and ancient Near Eastern studies, died on March 30, 2001, at the age of 92, at his home in Brookline, Mass. Gordon'scareer was intimately connected to the city in which this journal is published and to the two institutions which underlie its history. Gordon was born in Philadelphia; he took his three degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, all the while taking courses at Dropsie College as well; and later he returnedto the latter as a faculty member (see below for details). Accordingly, it is most gratifying for me to publish this tribute to my beloved teacher in the Jewish Quarterly Review. With Gordon'spassing, the world of scholarship has lost not only a brilliant intellectual, but also the last link to a distantpast. I refer not to antiquity, but ratherto the period of the 1920s and 1930s, when academic Nephilim walked the earth, when the Near East still was untouchedby modernity,and when the major discoveries at Nuzi and Ugarit were revolutionizing biblical studies. Togetherthese elements createdan age now romanticizedby younger
Jewish Quarterly Review – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Jan 4, 2001
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