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Hyman Klein

1908 – 1958

English scholar of the Babylonian Talmud and translator of rabbinic literature

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Lived 1908 – 1958 (aged 49–50). Hyman Klein was a judaic scholar.

Hyman Klein (1908–1958) was an English scholar of the Babylonian Talmud and translator of rabbinic literature. Klein's major contributions to the study of the Talmud were a series of articles that distinguished between the terse, attributed statements ("Gemara") of the Talmud, and the anonymous ("Sebara") stratum, the latter of which he considered to be Savoraic.

Biography Klein was born in London and attended the Etz Chaim Yeshivah and University of Cambridge. He also served as head of the Liverpool Talmudical College. He died in Jerusalem. Along with the work of Julius Kaplan and Avraham Weiss, Klein's methodology influenced later scholars, such as Shamma Friedman and David Weiss Halivni.

"Gemara and Sebara," JQR 38 (1947), 67–91

“Gemara Quotations in Sebara,”JQR 43 (1953), 341–63;

“Some Methods of Sebara,” JQR 50 (1959), 124–46;

“Some General Results of the Separation of Gemara from Sebara in the Babylonian Talmud,” Journal of Semitic Studies 3 (1958), 363–72.

Klein also translated tractate Nazir for the Soncino Press.

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1908, London
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Died
1958
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Judaic scholar

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English scholar of the Babylonian Talmud and translator of rabbinic literature

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Hyman Klein died in 1958.

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Hyman Klein was a judaic scholar.

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