Rabbi Samuel Sandmel

RABBI SAMUEL SANDMEL was a biblical scholar and the author of more than twenty books, including Philo of Alexandria, We Jews and Jesus, and A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament.

Sandmel served as Distinguished Service Professor of Bible and Hellenistic literature at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, where he was also Provost from 1956 to 1965, and later held the Helen A. Regenstein Professor of Religion chair at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He received his doctorate from Yale University in 1949 and served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1961. He was general editor of the Oxford University Press Study Edition of the New English Bible.

Sandmel was born in Dayton, Ohio, and died on November 4, 1979, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Rabbi Samuel Sandmel’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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