# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodor-gaster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:26:32.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodor-gaster"
name: "Theodor Gaster"
slug: "theodor-gaster"
description: "Theodor Herzl Gaster was a British-born American Biblical scholar known for work on comparative religion, mythology and the history of religion. He is noted for his books, Thespis: Ritual, Myth, and Drama in the Ancient Near East (1950), The Dead Sea Scriptures, about the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as his one-volume abridgement of Sir James Frazer's massive 13-volume work The Golden Bough, to which Gaster contributed updates, corrections and extensive annotations."
tagline: "American biblical scholar (1906–1992)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Gaster%27s_Dead_Sea_Scrolls_inscription_to_Housepian_Dobkin.jpg/330px-Gaster%27s_Dead_Sea_Scrolls_inscription_to_Housepian_Dobkin.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1906-07-21"
deathDate: "1992-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           5.489058666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Гастер, Теодор"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump