Theodor Herzl Gaster (1906 - 1992) was an American Biblical scholar known for work on comparative religion, mythology and the history of religions. He is noted for his book on the Dead Sea Scrolls. 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Comparative religion is a field of religious studies that analyzes interpretive differences of common themes and ideas among the worlds religions. ... ... The History of religions refers to the Religiongeschichteschule, a Nineteenth century German school of thought which was the first to systematically study religion as a socio-cultural phenomenon. ... Fragments of the scrolls on display at the Archeological Museum, Amman The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise roughly 850 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on...
His father was the scholar and rabbi Moses Gaster. Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī;; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished, (in knowledge). In the ancient Judean schools the sages were addressed as רִבִּי (Ribbi...
Gaster assumed that existing versions of the theory downplayed myth in favor of ritual, and he strove to accord myth the same importance as ritual.
Gaster, Theodor H. "Errors of Method in the Study of Religion." In Freedom and Reason: Studies in Philosophy and Jewish Culture, in Memory of Morris Raphael Cohen, edited by Salo W. Baron et al., pp.
Gaster, Theodor H. The Holy and the Profane: The Evolution of Jewish Folkways.
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