Theodor Gaster

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Theodor Gaster is affiliated with the following schools: Barnard College, Columbia University, New York University

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Theodor Gaster

Religious Studies

#1493

World Rank

#2847

Historical Rank

#594

USA Rank

Biblical Studies

#123

World Rank

#150

Historical Rank

#69

USA Rank

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Theodor Gaster's Degrees

PhD Semitic Languages Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, 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 , 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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Theodor Gaster's Published Works

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Thespis. Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient near East (1951) (73)
Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament. A Comparative Study with Chapters from Sir James G. Frazer's Folklore in the Old Testament (1969) (58)
The new Golden bough: A new abridgment of the classic work (1959) (42)
The Dead Sea scriptures (1964) (34)
The “Graces” in Semitic Folklore. A Wedding-song from Ras Shamra (1938) (31)
A Canaanite Ritual Drama: The Spring Festival at Ugarit (1946) (31)
Myth and Story (1954) (27)
Mythic Thought in the Ancient Near East@@@Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. (1955) (26)
Psalms III 101-150 (1970) (25)
The Oldest Stories in the World (1952) (12)
The scriptures of the Dead Sea sect (1957) (12)
Passover: Its History and Traditions (1984) (7)
Studies and texts in folklore, magic, mediaeval romance, Hebrew Apocrypha, and Samaritan archaeology (1972) (6)
Festivals of the Jewish Year: A Modern Interpretation and Guide (1961) (6)
The Dead Sea scriptures, in English translation (1976) (5)
The Dead Sea Scriptures in English Translation, with Introduction and Notes (1958) (5)
The holy and the profane (1980) (5)
An Ancient Eulogy on Israel: Deuteronomy 33:3-5, 26-29 (1947) (4)
New Year : its history, customs and superstitions (1955) (4)
Folklore Motifs in Canaanite Myth (1944) (4)
The Book of Habakkuk (1948) (4)
A Hang-Up for Hang-Ups: The Second Amuletic Plaque from Arslan Tash (1973) (3)
“The Combat of Death and the Most High”: A Proto-Hebrew Epic from Ras-Samra (1932) (3)
The Magical Inscription from Arslan Tash (1947) (3)
The Chronology of Palestinian Epigraphy (1935) (2)
Ugaritic Mythology (1948) (2)
On a Proto-Hebrew Poem from Ras Shamra (1938) (2)
‘Ba'al is Risen …’: An Ancient Hebrew Passion-Play from Ras Shamra-Ugarit (1939) (2)
Thespis: Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient near East (1951) (2)
Ras Shamra, 1929–39 (1939) (2)
A Hittite Seasonal Myth (1973) (1)
A King without a Castle: Baal's Appeal to Asherat (1946) (1)
Old Testament Notes (1954) (1)
Foundations of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in Europe (1945) (1)
Canaanite Parallels to the Psalms (1945) (1)
More Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories (1939) (1)
A Qumran Reading of Deuteronomy Xxxiii 10 (1958) (1)
The Earliest Known Miracle-Play? (1933) (1)
Psalm 42:8 (1954) (1)
The Canaanite Epic of Keret (1947) (1)
Some Ancient Oriental Folklore (1938) (1)
Studies in the Book of Nahum (1949) (1)
Notes on Ras Shamra Texts. — I (1936) (0)
The Furniture of El in Canaanite Mythology (1944) (0)
An Archaic Inscription from Lachish (1937) (0)
A Curious Qumran Tradition (1958) (0)
The Ugaritic Text I AB, vi 18 (1948) (0)
The Growth of Literature . By H. Munro Chadwick and N. Kershaw Chadwick. Vol. II. 8vo, 6½ × 9½, pp. xvii + 783. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936. Price 30 s . (1938) (0)
Notes on Ras Shamra Texts (1935) (0)
A Phoenician Naval Gazette: New Light on Homer’s Catalogue of Ships (1938) (0)
The Beth-Shemesh Tablet and the Origins of Ras-Shamra Culture (1934) (0)
Abraham . Recent Discoveries and Hebrew Origins. By Sir Leonard Woolley. 8½ × 5½, pp. 299, map 1. London: Faber & Faber, 1936. 7s. 6d. (1937) (0)
The Earthly and Celestial Temple (1978) (0)
The Ras Shamra Texts and the Old Testament (1934) (0)
Bibliography of Jewish Bibliographies . by Shlomo Shunami. 10 × 7, pp. iv + 399 + ix. Jerusalem: University Press, London: W. and G. Foyle, 1936. 30s. (1938) (0)
On an Iron Axe from Ugarit (1943) (0)
Ezekiel and the Mysteries (1941) (0)
La Déesse 'Anat . Poeme de Ras Shamra. By Charles Virolleaud. Tome IV. 11 × 9, pp. vi + 113, pls. 13. Paris: Geuthner, 1938. (1941) (0)
The Tell-Duweir Ewer Inscription (1934) (0)
On Habakkuk 3:4 (1943) (0)
Two Notes on Nahum (1944) (0)
The Dead Sea scriptures, in English tr. with introd. and notes by Theodor H. Gaster (1957) (0)
A Note on Palestinian Epigraphy (1937) (0)
Review of the Year 5703 (1942-43): Foreign Countries (1944) (0)
Handbook of Biblical Chronology@@@Archaeology in Biblical Research@@@The Biblical Archaeologist Reader, II@@@The Dead Sea Scriptures@@@The Treasure of the Copper Scroll@@@From Moses to Qumram (1966) (0)
Hitler's Professors (1947) (0)
The Canaanite Poem of the Gracious Gods, Line 12 (1947) (0)
A Hittite word in Hebrew (1933) (0)
Some Recent European Books (1953) (0)
Notes on Ras Shamra Texts—IV (1939) (0)
The Meaning of the Name Israel (1947) (0)
The Battle of the Rain and the Sea an Ancient Semitic Nature-Myth (1937) (0)
The Combat of 'Aleyân-Ba'al and Mōt. Two missing portions (1936) (0)
The Combat of 'Aleyân-Ba'al and Mōt A Proto-Hebrew Epic from Ras-Shamra (1934) (0)
En Mishpat: A Rejoinder (1940) (0)
The Oldest Stories in the World: Originally Translated and Retold, with Comments (1953) (0)
The Ras Shamra Mythological Texts . By James A. Montgomery and Zelig S. Harris. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. IV. 9½ × 5½, pp. 134. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1935. (1938) (0)
American Oriental Society: An Evening of Reminiscences (1986) (0)
The Tell-Duweir Ewer Inscription. A Supplementary Note (1935) (0)

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