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He was appointed assistant professor in Los Angeles in January 1962. Glueck to Wacholder, 14
February 1962, MS 20/A1a-90/11, Faculty. In June 1963 Wacholder was promoted to associate
professor of Jewish history and rabbinics (untenured with a renewable three-year contract)
and moved to the Cincinnati campus. Glueck to Wacholder, 14 June 1963; and Wacholder to
Glueck, 25 June 1963, MS 20/Aia-96/10, Faculty.
387Ben Zion Wacholder, “How Long Did Abram Stay in Egypt: A Study in Hellenistic, Qumran,
and Rabbinic Chronology,” HUCA 35 (1964): 43–56; and Wacholder, “A Qumran Attack
on the Oral Exegesis? The phrase ’šr btlmwd šqrm in 4Q Pesher Nahum,” Revue de Qumran 5
(1966): 575–578.
388See Ida Cohen Selevan and Laurel Wolfson, “A Bibliography of the Works of Ben Zion
Wacholder,” in Pursuing the Text: Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder on the Occasion of
his Seventieth Birthday, ed. John C. Reeves and John Kampen (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 1994), 410–412. The two Qumran-related books are The Dawn of Qumran: The Sectarian
Torah and the Teacher of Righteousness (Cincinnati: HUC Press, 1983) and The New Damascus
Document: The Midrash on the Eschatological Torah of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Reconstruction,
Translation and Commentary (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007).
389The Temple Scroll (Heb.) (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1977).
390See his acknowledgments page in The Dawn of Qumran (Cincinnati: HUC Press, 1983), xi.
391His 1987 syllabus for “Introductory Readings in the Dead Sea Scrolls” concentrated on the
sectarian texts including the Community Rule and the Damascus Document, and Qumranic
biblical interpretation as found in the Pesharim. Wacholder’s 1994 class “Hellenistic Literature
5: Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls” offered extensive readings from the newly published
computer-reconstructed texts on which he worked with Martin Abegg (see below). The syllabi
are on record with the HUC-JIR registrar’s office in Cincinnati.
392Martin G. Abegg, “The War Scroll From Qumran Caves 1 and 4: A Critical Edition,” doctoral
dissertation (HUC-JIR, 1992).
393James Bowley, “Traditions of Abraham in Greek Historical Writings,” doctoral dissertation
(HUC-JIR, 1992).
394John Kampen, “The Hasideans and the Origins of Pharasaism,” doctoral dissertation (HUC-
JIR, 1985).
395Wacholder was involved in the supervision of almost all graduate students working on the
scrolls (sometimes as second reader). Other students included Oliver S. Howard, “The Greek
text of Job in Light of the Ancient Qumran Targum,” doctoral dissertation (HUC-JIR, 1978);
and Wave E. Nunnally, “The Fatherhood of God at Qumran,” doctoral dissertation (HUC-JIR,
1992). Steven L. Jacobs wrote a dissertation for a doctor of Hebrew letters degree under the
supervision of David B. Weisberg, “The Biblical Masorah and the Temple Scroll (11QTorah):
Some Problems and Solutions,” D.H.L. dissertation (HUC-JIR, 1990).
396James C. VanderKam, “Review: The Dawn of Qumran,” Biblical Archaeologist 48, no.2 (1985):
126–127. Quote on 127.
397Florentino García Martínez, “Temple Scroll,” in Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman and James C. Vanderkam (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2000), 933.
398The book unfortunately drew the ire of a strong supporter of HUC-JIR, Yigael Yadin. Yadin
accused Wacholder of plagiarizing the volume from his Hebrew edition of the Temple Scroll.
Wacholder wrote a long defense of his work, and the matter was settled when Jacob Neusner,
an independent third party, reviewed Yadin’s claim and Wacholder’s defense and concluded
that the work was not plagiarized. See Yadin to Gottschalk, 10 October 1983; Wacholder
to Gottschalk, 9 December 1983; Neusner to Wacholder, 17 December 1983; Wacholder to
Neusner, 27 December 1983; and Neusner to Wacholder, 30 December 1983. Preserved in
SC-12641, Wacholder, Ben Zion.
399See, for example, “A Qumran Attack,” 578.
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