Theodor Gaster

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American biblical scholar (1906-1992)

United States AcademicsLived 1906 to 1992 · aged 85

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Theodor Herzl Gaster was a British-born American Biblical scholar known for work on comparative religion, mythology and the history of religion.

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Signed copy of The Dead Sea Scriptures

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1954Guggenheim Fellowship

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FatherMoses Gaster

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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.

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