14 Facts About David Flusser

David Flusser was an Israeli professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

David Flusser was born in Vienna on September 15,1917.

David Flusser later taught in the Comparative Religions department for many years, mentoring many future scholars.

David Flusser died in Jerusalem on September 15,2000, on his 83rd birthday.

David Flusser was survived by his wife, Chana, 2 sons, Yochanan and Uri, and 7 grandchildren.

David Flusser was a devout Orthodox Jew who applied his study of the Torah and Talmud to the study of ancient Greek, Roman and Arabic texts, as well as the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

David Flusser scrutinized the ancient Jewish and Christian texts for evidence of the Jewish roots of Christianity.

David Flusser pursued his research at a time when many Jews blamed Christianity for Nazism.

David Flusser published over 1,000 articles in Hebrew, German, English, and other languages.

David Flusser took the view that the Birkat haMinim was originally in reference to Sadducees, not Judaeo-Christians.

David Flusser was trained as a philologist and thus the study of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic manuscripts was central to his research interests.

David Flusser was primarily interested in the medieval Book of Yosippon which claimed much of his time from 1940 to 1982 when he finished his edition of this medieval history of the Second Temple period.

David Flusser once quipped that he would like to chat with Jesus and the anonymous author of the Book of Yosippon once he reached the "academy on high".

David Flusser was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and received the Israel Prize in 1980, for his contributions to the study of Jewish history.