David Flusser
| David Flusser | |
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David Flusser
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| Born |
15 September 1917 Vienna |
| Died | 15 September 2000 (aged 83) Jerusalem |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Known for | Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research |
| Title | Professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Spouse(s) | Chana |
| Children | 2 sons (Yochanan and Uri) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Charles University in Prague |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis year | 1957 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Biblical studies |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
David Flusser (Hebrew: דוד פלוסר) (born 1917; died 2000) was a 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. He grew up in Příbram (Przibram, Pibrans, Freiberg i.B.), middle Bohemia, Czechoslovakia and attended the University of Prague. There he met a pastor, Josef Perl, who piqued his interest in Jesus and Christianity. Flusser immigrated to British Mandatory Palestine in 1939, and completed his doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1957. He later taught in the Comparative Religions department for many years, mentoring many future scholars.
David Flusser was the cousin of Vilém Flusser.
Flusser died in Jerusalem on September 15, 2000, on his 83rd birthday. He was survived by his wife, Chana, 2 sons, Yochanan and Uri, and 7 grandchildren.
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.
Flusser scrutinized the ancient Jewish and Christian texts for evidence of the Jewish roots of Christianity. While critically distinguishing the historical Jesus from the portrayal in the Gospels and other Christian writings, Flusser saw Jesus as an authentic Jew, misunderstood by his followers.
David Satran, a professor of comparative religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said, "Dr. Flusser was rather remarkable in his strong insistence that not only was Jesus a Jew from birth to death, but that Jesus did nothing that could be interpreted as a revolt or questioning of the basic principles of the Judaism at the time." Personally, Flusser viewed Jesus as a tsadik with keen spiritual insight and a "high self-awareness" that near-contemporaries similarly expressed, such as Hillel the Elder in the Talmud and the "Teacher of Righteousness" in certain Dead Sea Scrolls.
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