David Daube

David Daube DCL, FBA (8 February 1909, Freiburg, Germany-24 February 1999) was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford and later Professor-in-Residence at the University of California, Berkeley.

Education

• Berthold-Gymnasium, Freiburg
• Universities of Freiburg and Göttingen (Dr jur 1932)
• PhD University of Cambridge 1935

Career

• 1938-46 Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (Honorary fellow, 1974)
• 1946-51 Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge
• 1951-55 Professor of Jurisprudence, Aberdeen University
• 1955-70 Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, 1980
• 1970-99 Emeritus Professor of Law, Oxford
• 1970-81 Director of the Robbins Hebraic and Roman Law Collections and Professor-in-Residence at the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
• 1981-99 Emeritus Professor of Law, Berkeley

Other posts and honours

• 1953-1999 Member, Academic Board, Institute of Jewish Affairs
• 1957 Fellow of the British Academy
• 1957-8 President: Société d'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité
• 1961 Founder-President, B'nai B'rith Oxford Lodge
• 1970 Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy
• 1971 DHL: Hebrew Union College
• 1973 Honorary Fellow, Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies
• 1979 Fellow: American Academy for Jewish Research
• 1983-5 President: Jewish Law Association

Publications

• Studies in Biblical Law, 1947
• The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism, 1956
• Forms of Roman Legislation, 1956
• (with W. D. Davies) Studies in honour of C. H. Dodd, 1956
• (ed) Studies in memory of F. de Zulueta, 1959
• The Exodus Pattern in the Bible, 1963
• The Sudden in the Scriptures, 1964
• Collaboration with Tyranny in Rabbinic Law, 1965
• He that Cometh, 1966
• Roman Law, 1969
• Civil Disobedience in Antiquity, 1972
• Ancient Hebrew Fables, 1973
• Wine in the Bible, 1975
• Medical and Genetic Ethics, 1976
• Duty of Procreation, 1977
• Typologie im Werk des Flavius Josephus, 1977
• Ancient Jewish Law, 1981
• Geburt der Detektivgeschichte, 1983
• Das Alte Testament im Neuen, 1984
• Sons and Strangers, 1984
• (with C. Carmichael) Witnesses in Bible and Talmud, 1986
• Appeasement or Resistance and other essays on New Testament Judaism, 1987
• Festschriften: Daube Noster, 1974
• Studies in Jewish Legal History in Honour of David Daube, 1974
• Donum Gentilicium, 1978
• Berkeley and Oxford Symposium in Honour of David Daube, 19
• The Deed and the Doer in the Bible: David Daube’s Gifford Lectures, Volume 1, 2008, Templeton Foundation Press

References

• Who was Who

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