{"id":2200,"date":"2010-05-17T18:20:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/05\/moshe-greenberg-bible-scholar.php"},"modified":"2010-05-17T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:20:48","slug":"moshe-greenberg-bible-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/05\/moshe-greenberg-bible-scholar","title":{"rendered":"Moshe Greenberg, Bible Scholar, Dies at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM &#8211; Moshe Greenberg, an influential scholar whose work won the first-ever Israel Prize for biblical studies, has died, one of his sons said Monday. He was 81.<br \/>\nGreenberg&#8217;s award-winning Bible scholarship bridged the gap between the commentary of ancient Jewish sages and modern-day religious studies, said Israel Knohl, a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a colleague of Greenberg.<br \/>\nGreenberg died Saturday morning at his Jerusalem home, said his son Rafi Greenberg.<br \/>\nHis definitive two-volume commentary on the Book of Ezekiel described, among other things, how the prohibition of murder became an unbreakable taboo with the Abrahamic religions because of the rise of a belief in man&#8217;s connection to God, Knohl said.<br \/>\nThe Israel Prize is the country&#8217;s highest civilian award. Prizes are given in several fields on Israel&#8217;s independence day every year.<br \/>\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Greenberg immigrated to Israel in 1970 and became a prominent voice whose work occasionally touched on political topics. He countered those who used the Book of Joshua as a justification for certain forms of violence in defense of Israel, Knohl said.<br \/>\nIn 1994, along with a colleague, he became the first person to win the Israel Prize for Bible research.<br \/>\nHe is survived by his wife, Evelyn, and three sons. Rafi Greenberg is an archeologist at Tel Aviv University. Another son, Joel Greenberg, worked for decades as a journalist in Israel for publications including The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM &#8211; Moshe Greenberg, an influential scholar whose work won the first-ever Israel Prize for biblical studies, has died, one of his sons said Monday. He was 81. 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