Danzig obituary

IN MEMORIAM: Rabbi Neil Danzig, scholar who unlocked mysteries of the Talmud, dies at 74. Longtime professor of rabbinics at Jewish Theological Seminary explored writings of the Geonim, the Jewish leaders and scholars during the late sixth to mid-11th centuries (Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA via Times of Israel).

JTA — Rabbi Neil Danzig, a longtime professor of rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and an authority on the post-Talmudic Babylonian scholars known as the Geonim, died July 4. He was 74.

A longtime resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, he was buried in Israel.

As a scholar of medieval rabbinic literature, Danzig explored the halachic, or Jewish legal, writings of the Geonim, the Jewish leaders and scholars during the late sixth to mid-11th centuries in what is now Iraq. The Geonim secured the Babylonian Talmud as the central canonical work of rabbinic literature.

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