People – biblicalia

Sad news

I have learned, sadly, that Anders Gerdmar, author of the masterpiece Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism: German Biblical Interpretation and the Jews, from Herder and Semler to Kittel and Bultmann passed away in the summer of 2023 after battling cancer for several years. An obituary is here.

The last we were in contact, he had just begun work on a new book. He managed to complete it before passing away: Salvation is from the Jews: The Image of Jews and Judaism in Biblical Interpretation, from Anti-Jewish Exegesis to Eliminationist Antisemitism. I’m sure it will stand up just as well as Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism has done.

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Jacob Milgrom ז″ל

Professor Jacob Milgrom has passed away.

May his memory be for a blessing. It surely is for me.

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Abraham Malamat z”l

Professor Abraham Malamat passed away today in Jerusalem at the age of 87.

May his memory be for a blessing.

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I remember

I remember
when I was a kid
riding in the back
of the station wagon
telling my little brother
that I had the moon on a string
and I gave the string to him.

I still love you, brother.

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Of making many books . . .

. . . there is an end.

Bruce Metzger has died.

May he rest in the assurance of the eternal memory of God.

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As noted on the ANE list and elsewhere, Hayim Tadmor passed away today. I was rather shocked, and entirely saddened, as just yesterday I had finished spending several days working through his stunningly excellent The Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III King of Assyria, which I hope will still be reprinted soon.