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{{Infobox person
| name = Rabbi Samuel Belkin
| image =Samuel Belkin 1938.jpg
| caption = ''Photo courtesy of Yeshiva University''
| birth_date = {{birth date|1911|12|12|df=y}}
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| children = Linda Rose Belkn Schuchalter and Salo Maurice Belkin<ref name=NYTobit/>
| parents = Solomon Belkin and Minna (Sattir) Belkin<ref name=Ohles/>
| signature = Samuel_Belkin_Signature_from_Goldman_Collection.png
}}
'''Samuel Belkin''' (December 12, 1911
==Biography==
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As a child, he sought to leave Poland after he witnessed his father being shot by a policeman in 1919.<ref>Samuel Belkin, Rabbi William G. Braude, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 44, 1977 (1977), pp. xvii-xx in JSTOR, American Academy for Jewish Research.</ref> He emigrated to the United States in 1929, studied with [[Harry Austryn Wolfson]] at Harvard and received his doctorate (concerned with the writings of [[Philo]]) at [[Brown University]] in 1935, one of the first awarded for [[Jewish studies|Judaic studies in American academia]]. In 1940, an elaboration of his Ph.D. thesis was published with the title "Philo and the Oral Law — The Philonic Interpretation of Biblical Law in Relation to the Palestinian Halakah."<ref name="ReferenceA">Jewish Virtual Library, ''Samuel Belkin''.</ref>
He then joined the faculty of Yeshiva College, New York, where he taught [[Ancient Greek language|Greek]]. He became a full professor in 1940 and was appointed dean of its [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] (RIETS) the same year. In 1943, Belkin was named
As a scholar, he published many works on [[halakha|Jewish law]] and [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic literature]]. His most significant published works are "Philo and the Oral Law" and "In His Image: The Jewish Philosophy of Man as Expressed in Rabbinic Tradition".
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*Marlene Besterman (1986)
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*Magda M. Jimenez (1995)
*Thomas Harding (1996)
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*Kimberly N. Grant (2007)
*Meghan DuPuis Maurus (2008)
*Jil Simon (2013),
* Francesca Rebecca Acocella (2016), and
* Sarah Helen Ganley (2017)
==Bibliography==
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==References==
*[https://dbs.bh.org.il/luminary/belkin-samuel Samuel Belkin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140921/https://dbs.bh.org.il/luminary/belkin-samuel |date=2018-06-12 }}, The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot
*[http://www.yucommentator.com/media/paper652/news/2005/05/16/Yudaica/Samuel.Belkins.Application.To.Riets-951245.shtml Samuel Belkin's Application to RIETS], yucommentator.com
*[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/sbelkin.html Samuel Belkin, Jewish Virtual Library], www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
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