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SAFRAI, SHMUEL (1919–2003), scholar in the fields of Jewish history,
Talmud, and Bible. Safrai was born in Warsaw and arrived in Palestine
with his parents in 1922. From 1931 to 1939 he studied at the Merkaz
ha-Rav Yeshivah, being ordained there as a rabbi at the age of 20. In
1952 and 1957 he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, becoming a professor there in 1978. With his
colleagues David Flusser* and Robert Lindsey, he founded the Jerusalem
School of Synoptic Research, dedicated to the historical, linguistic, and
critical study of the synoptic gospels. He was also a frequent contributor
to Jerusalem Perspective magazine. Safrai received the Jerusalem Prize
in 1986 and the Israel Prize in 2002 for "his great expertise in the Mishnah and Talmud, in Greek and
Latin sources, and in the formation of nascent Christianity." He wrote over 80 articles and 12 books,
including Pilgrimage in the Period of the Second Temple and Rabbi Akiva ben Yosef: His Life and
Teachings.
[Shaked Gilboa (2nd ed.)]
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_17276.html
Source: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.
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About Shmuel Safrai - [1919-2003] - Professor and Rabbi Shmuel Safrai died on July 16, 2003. He was
buried the following day in a section of Jerusalem’s Har Ha-Menuhot Cemetery reserved for faculty of
the Hebrew University. His grave is only a few feet from the grave of his close friend and research
colleague, Professor David Flusser. Safrai was 84.
Safrai was the last of a scholarly triumvirate that included David Flusser (1917-2000) and Robert Lindsey
(1917-1995). Together, the three created a new school of thought, the Jerusalem School of Synoptic
Research.
A founding member of the Jerusalem School, Safrai was professor emeritus of Jewish History of the
Mishnaic and Talmudic Period at the Hebrew University.
Safrai was born in Warsaw in 1919, and at the age of three immigrated to Palestine with his family. He
was ordained as a rabbi at the age of twenty at the prestigious Mercaz Harav Yeshivah in Jerusalem. He
later received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the fields of Jewish History,
Talmud and Bible.
Safrai was the recipient of many literary prizes for his research, including the Jerusalem Prize (1986), and
the Israel Prize (2002), the State of Israel’s most prestigious honor. He wrote over eighty articles and
twelve books, including Pilgrimage in the Period of the Second Temple (in Hebrew), Rabbi Akiva ben
Yosef: His Life and Teachings (in Hebrew), The Jewish People in the First Century, co-editor (2 vols.), and
The Literature of the Sages, Part I, editor. http://www.jerusalemperspective.com/author/shmuel-safrai/
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List of Articles by Shmuel Safrai [1919-2003]:
A Friend of Tax Collectors
A Priest of the Division of Abijah
Did Jesus Wear a Kippah?
Insulting God’s High Priest
Jesus and the Hasidim
John the Nazirite
Literary Languages in the Time of Jesus
Master and Disciple
Naming John the Baptist
No Room in the Inn?
Pilgrimage in the Time of Jesus
Sabbath Breakers
Spoken Languages in the Time of Jesus
Synagogue and Sabbath
The Centurion and the Synagogue
The Jewish Cultural Nature of Galilee in the First Century
The Place of Women in First-century Synagogues
The Role of Women in the Temple
The Synagogue the Centurion Built
The Value of Rabbinic Literature as an Historical Source
Trees of Life
Were Women Segregated in the Ancient Synagogue?
With All Due Respect…
Zechariah’s Prestigious Task