Nahum N. Glatzer
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LOCATION: Watertown, MA, United States
Professor of Jewish History, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1956–73. Author of Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought and others.
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Akiva ben Yosef was a Jewish sage, a principal founder of rabbinic Judaism. He introduced a new method of interpreting Jewish oral law (Halakha), thereby laying the foundation of what was to become the Mishna, the first postbiblical written code of Jewish law. The subject of numerous popular…
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