Monday, February 27, 2006

HAYIM TADMOR receives a long obituary in The Independent:
Hayim Tadmor

Historian of the Bible and Ancient Near East who established an international centre of Assyriology


Published: 27 February 2006

Hayim Frumstein (Hayim Tadmor), Assyriologist: born Harbin, China 18 November 1923; Professor, Department of Assyriology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1971-93; married 1953 Miriam Skura (one son, one daughter); died Jerusalem 11 December 2005.

Hayim Tadmor was until his retirement in 1993 Professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the first holder of the post, in a department which he created. A man of enormously wide learning in bible and Ancient Near Eastern history, he stood in the first rank of Assyriologists of his day. Among his many publications, The Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III King of Assyria (1994) stands as a fitting memorial.

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(Via the Agade list.)

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