Chaim Menachem Rabin

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Chaim Menachem Rabin, (1915 - 1996）, was an Israeli professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages. He was born in Germany.

Chaim Rabin's field was all aspects of hebraic linguistics, even extending to Arabic, in particular, translations of the ancient language of the Bible, the Dead Sea Manuscripts, and the detailed study of ancient medieval codices. He was chief editor in compiling the Hebrew University edition of the Bible.

Rabin was an influential guide in the Dictionary of Modern Israeli Hebrew, published in Israel. He was a pioneer in training Israeli translators.

Rabin was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.

[edit] Works

Hebrew. London: Lund Humphries 1949.
Ancient West Arabian. London: Taylor's Foreign Press 1951.
Maimonides, The guide of the perplexed, with introduction and commentary by Julius Guttmann. translated from the Arabic by Chaim Rabin. London: East and West Library 1952.
The Zadokite Documents. Oxford: Clarendon 1954
"Alexander Jannaens and the Pharisees". in: Journal of Jewish Studies 7 (1956), pp. 3-11.
Qumran Studies. Oxford 1957
"The Linguistics of Translation". in: A. D. Booth (ed.), Aspects of Translation (Studies in Communications 2), London: Secker and Warburg 1958, pp. 123ff
Studies in the Bible : edited on behalf of the Institute of Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Humanities. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University 1961
"Etymological Miscellanea", in: Scripta Hierosolymitana 8 (1961), pp. 384-400.
Yigael Yadin (edited with commentary), The scroll of the War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness, translated by Batya and Chaim Rabin. London: Oxford University Press 1962.
(with Yigael Yadin), Aspects of the Dead Sea scrolls. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University 1965
The influence of different systems of Hebrew orthography on reading Efficiency. Jerusalem: The Israel Institute of Applied Social Research 1968.
The development of the syntax of post-biblical Hebrew. Leiden; Boston: Brill 2000. ISBN 90-04-11433-5. [1]

[edit] References

Moshe H. Goshen-Gottstein, Shlomo Morag, Simcha Kogut (eds.), Studies on Hebrew and other Semitic languages presented to Chaim Rabin. Jerusalem: Academon Press 1990. [2]