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Shmuel David Luzzatto (Shadal): Modern Biblical Scholar and Traditionalist Part of Torah in Motion's continuing series, "The Thought and Worldview of Influential Jewish Thinkers"

This presentation by Dr. Marty Lockshin continues the Torah in Motion series "The Thought and Worldview of Influential Jewish Thinkers."  

Shmuel David Luzzatto (also known under the acronym of SHaDaL) was an Italian rabbi, poet, grammarian and scholar of Hebrew letters. Among Luzzatto's many works are a study of Targum Onkelos (Ohev ger, 1830), commentaries (in Hebrew and Italian) on the Pentateuch and haftarot (1871-76) and several other biblical books, as well as pioneering studies on the Hebrew language and on Hebrew liturgical poetry (piyyut), the groundbreaking introduction (Mavo) to the Italian Machzor (1856), and philosophical works (Mozne tzedeq: Vikuach ‘al chokhmat ha-qabalah, 1852; Teologia morale israelitica, 1862; and Yesode ha-torah, 1880).

 

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Date

March 20, 2014

Time

8:00 PM EDT

Location

Yeshivat Or Chaim

Topics

Great Rabbinic Thinkers, Talmudic

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Shmuel David Luzzatto (Shadal): Modern Biblical Scholar and Traditionalist

March 21, 2014

Rabbi Dr. Martin Lockshin

Program: Shmuel David Luzzatto (Shadal): Modern Biblical Scholar and Traditionalist

Meet the speaker

Rabbi Dr. Martin Lockshin

Rabbi Dr. Martin Lockshin is University Professor Emeritus at York University and lives in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and his rabbinic ordination in Israel while studying in Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav Kook. Among Lockshin’s publications is his four-volume translation and annotation of Rashbam’s commentary on the Torah.

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