Baruch Lifshitz

Lifshitz was born in 1913 at Davyd-Haradok in Byelorussia, where he received his early education.{{cite journal|first1=Itzhak|last1=Gilead|first2=Ofer|last2=Bar-Yosef|first3=François|last3=Valla|first4=E.E.|last4=Wreschner|first5=M.|last5=Lamdan|first6=Ruth|last6=Amiran|first7=Carmela|last7=Cohen|first8=Moshe|last8=Dothan|first9=Avraham|last9=Biran|first10=Kevin G.|last10=O'Connell|first11=D. Glenn|last11=Rose|first12=Lawrence E.|last12=Toombs|first13=Rudolph|last13=Cohen|first14=Amos|last14=Kloner|first15=Eric M.|last15=Meyers|first16=Claudine|last16=Dauphin|author-link16= Claudine Dauphin |title=Notes and News|journal=Israel Exploration Journal|volume=27|number=4|publisher=Israel Exploration Society|date=1977|pages=261–262|jstor=27925639|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8p1CAAAAYAAJ}} He studied at the Vilnius University, but had to abandon his studies and flee because of the outbreak of World War II. Lifshitz fled to Tashkent, where he was conscripted into the Red Army.

In 1946, he arrived in Palestine, and began studying history and classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his M.A in 1952, and his Ph.D. in 1957 at Jerusalem.{{cite book|title=The Hebrew University of Jerusalem|author=Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim|date=1966|pages=448|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RIdAAAAMAAJ}} His dissertation was entitled The Protection of Graves in Grave Inscriptions in Eretz-Israel, and while preparing his doctoral thesis, he studied Greek epigraphy in Paris with professor Louis Robert.

Lifshitz was senior lecturer in classics and later a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.{{cite web|title=Department of Classical Studies. The Faculty of Humanities|website=The Hebrew University of Jerusalem|url=https://en.classics.huji.ac.il/about/history|access-date=2021-01-07}}{{cite book|title=The Hebrew University of Jerusalem|author=Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim|year=1972|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABQdAAAAMAAJ|pages=69}}{{cite book|title=Understanding the Greek Orthodox Church: Its Faith, History, and Practice|volume=1|author=Demetrios J. Constantelos|publisher=Seabury Press|year=1982|isbn=9780816405152|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I1PuAAAAMAAJ|pages=20}}{{cite book|title=Jerusalem to Jabneh, Units 5-6|publisher=Open University of Israel|isbn=9789650611910|pages=43|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gib4I3KDG0wC&pg=PA43}} He began working at the Hebrew University in 1952 as a senior scholar. In 1957 he became an instructor, and in 1962 a lecturer.{{cite book|title=The Hebrew University of Jerusalem|author=Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim|publisher=Jerusalem Post Press|date=1962|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fueubvtfal0C|pages=346}}

During some twenty years of his life he published contributions to Jewish and Latin epigraphy, study of the Greek and Latin inscriptions of Palestines. He was the first to compile inscriptions of the synagogue's founders and donors in his work Donateurs et fondateurs dans les synagogues juives répertoire des dédicaces grecques relatives à la construction et à la réfection des synagogues.{{cite book|author=Tibor Grüll|date=2019|title=Ókori zsinagógák dedikációs feliratai [Dedicatory inscriptions of ancient synagogues, in Hung.]|url=https://www.academia.edu/39693540|pages=67–90}} He has also worked as an editor and translator of ancient manuscripts.{{cite web|title=Lifshitz, B|website=www.trismegistos.org|url=https://www.trismegistos.org/editor/1303|access-date=2022-01-08}} His papers have been published in more than 70 scholarly journals. Yigael Yadin has published some of his research in Israel Exploration Journal by the Israel Exploration Society.{{cite book|title=The Language Environment of First Century Judaea: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels—Volume Two|series=Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series|editor1=Randall Buth|editor2=R. Steven Notley|publisher=BRILL|year=2014|isbn=9789004264410|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5QXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA42|pages=42}}

Lifshitz died on September 18, 1976, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

• {{cite thesis|first=Baruch|last=Lifshitz|year=1957|title=The Protection of Graves in Grave Inscriptions in Eretz-Israel|type=PhD diss. Hebrew University of Jerusalem}}

• {{cite book|title=Donateurs et fondateurs dans les synagogues juives: répertoire des dédicaces grecques relatives à la construction et à la réfection des synagogues|volume=7|series=Cahiers de la Revue biblique, Revue biblique, ISSN 0575-0741|first=Baruch|last=Lifshitz|publisher=J. Gabalda|year=1967|oclc=600240401}}
• {{cite book |first=Baruch |last=Lifshitz |title=Politische Geschichte (Provinzen und Randvölker: Syrien, Palästina, Arabien) |date=1978 |chapter=Scythopolis. L'histoire, les institutions et les cultes de la ville à l'époque hellénistique et impériale |editor-first1=Hildegard |editor-last1=Temporini |editor-first2=Wolfgang |editor-last2=Haase |series=Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW) / Rise and Decline of the Roman World |volume=8 |oclc=848357261 |doi=10.1515/9783110866940-010 |isbn=9783110866940 }}
• {{cite book |first=Baruch |last=Lifshitz |date=1978 |chapter=Jérusalem sous la domination romaine. Histoire de la ville depuis la conquête de Pompée jusqu'à Constantin (63 a. C. — 325 p. C.) |editor-first1=Hildegard |editor-last1=Temporini |editor-first2=Wolfgang |editor-last2=Haase |series=Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW) / Rise and Decline of the Roman World |title=Politische Geschichte (Provinzen und Randvölker: Syrien, Palästina, Arabien) |volume=8 |doi=10.1515/9783110866940-014 |isbn=9783110866940 }}

• {{cite journal |first=Baruch |last=Lifshitz |jstor=27924908 |title=The Greek Documents from the Cave of Horror |journal=Israel Exploration Journal |volume=12 |issue=3/4 |pages=201–207 |year=1962}}
• {{cite journal |first=Baruch |last=Lifshitz |date=1962 |title=Papyrus grecs du désert de Juda |jstor=41215857 |journal=Aegyptus |volume=42 |number=3/4 |pages=240–256 |language=fr}}
• {{cite journal |first=Baruch |last=Lifshitz |date=1962 |title=L'origine du nom des chretiens |journal=Vigiliae Christianae |volume=16 |number=2 |pages=65–70 |doi=10.2307/1582133 |jstor=1582133}}
• {{cite journal |first1=Baruch |last1=Lifshitz |last2=Schiby |first2=J. |title=Une Synagogue Samaritaine a Thessalonique |date=1968 |journal=Revue Biblique (1946-) |volume=75 |number=3 |pages=368–378 |jstor=44087982}}
• {{cite journal |first=Baruch |last=Lifshitz |date=1970 |title=Du Nouveau sur les „Sympathisants” |journal=Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period |publisher=Brill |volume=1 |number=1 |pages=77–84 |jstor=24656215 }}
• {{cite journal |last=Lifshitz |first=Baruch |date=1976 |title=Bleigewichte aus Palästina und Syrien |journal=Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins |volume=92 |number=2 |pages=168–187 |jstor=27931038}}

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