Touch the screen or click to continue...
Checking your browser...

Ben zion wacholder biography books


The following is a complete bibliography of Ben Zion Wacholder's work, compiled by Ida Cohen Selevan and Laurel Wolfson: Books.

  • The following is a complete bibliography of Ben Zion Wacholder's work, compiled by Ida Cohen Selevan and Laurel Wolfson: Books.
  • Image of Nicolaus of Damascus.
  • The Dawn of Qumran: The Sectarian Torah and the Teacher of Righteousness out of 5 stars1.
  • Ben Zion Wacholder, Rabbi () Rabbi Yitzhak Elchanan Theological Seminary; Ph.D.
  • Pursuing the Text: Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday books, art and collectibles available now at

    • The Dawn of Qumran: The Sectarian Torah and the Teacher of Righteousness out of 5 stars1.!

    BIBLE HISTORY DAILY

    Ben-Zion Wacholder (1924–2011)

    Biblical Archaeology Society Staff June 15, 2011 0 Comments 4491 views Share

    Ben-Zion Wacholder

    Ben-Zion Wacholder, professor emeritus of Talmud and Rabbinics at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati who played a critical role in making the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible to everyone, passed away in March at age 86.

    In 1989, Wacholder, along with his then-student Martin Abegg (now professor of religious studies at Trinity Western University in British Columbia), obtained a secret concordance of the unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls.

    The concordance consisted of photocopies of index cards on which every word in the unpublished scrolls was listed, including its location and the few words surrounding it. Using a computer (dubbed by the press “Rabbi Computer”), the two were able to use the concordance to reconstruct the unpublished texts of more than 500 scrolls.

    The result was Abegg and Wacholder’s A Preliminary Editio