Книга посвящена российскому периоду жизни великого историка древности Элиаса (Ильи) Бикермана (1897–1981). В 2010 году A. Баумгартен опубликовал на английском языке его биографию.
The book describes the Russian period of the life of Elias Bickerman (1897-1981) who was among the greatest historians of the ancient period of his generation. In 2010 A. Baumgarten published a biography of Bickerman. However, Baumgarten did not know the Russian language and had no access to documents in the Russian archives, therefore, he neglects an important part of Bickerman’s life – the period before he emigrated from Russia in 1922. This book, which draws on archival documents, aims to fill this lacuna. It is particularly valuable because the Russian period had an enormous importance for Bickerman’s scholarly work. It was his youth in St Petersburg and his study at Petrograd University that laid the foundation stone for his intellectual development and thus was crucial for his future scholarly achievements. The second aim of the book is to challenge Baumgarten’s theory that in Bickerman’s famous book “The God of Maccabees” personal emotions and ideological considerations, rooted in Bickerman’s Russian background, were substituted for rational historical analysis. The book includes the bibliography of Bickerman’s works and a translation of one of his articles.
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