Noted Bible scholar dies in Jerusalem at 92
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- Prof. Nehama Leibowitz, the noted Bible scholar, Israel Prize winner, and much-loved teacher of Torah to thou, Born in Latvia, she was educated at Berlin and Marburg universities, and immigrated here in 1925. From her early years here, she
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For years, she personally checked each set of answers. She was also a popular lecturer and for a time spoke regularly on the radio, in addition to lecturing at several universities.
Leibowitz wrote more than a dozen books on the Bible, including a popular series of commentary on each of the five books of the Torah.
In recognition of her research, she was awarded the Israel Prize for Education in 1957. She was also awarded the Samuel Rothberg prize in Jewish Education in 1986.
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