Charles Lee Feinberg (June 12, 1909August 22, 1995) was an American biblical scholar and professor of
Semitics and
Old Testament
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. He was an authority on the Jewish history, languages and customs of the Old Testament and biblical prophecies.
Background and education
Feinberg was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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, and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community, graduating from the Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh in preparation to be a rabbi.
In 1930, he converted from
Judaism
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to
Protestantism
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through the ministry of
Chosen People Ministries.
He went on to earn his
Th.M. (1934) and
Th.D. (1935) from
Dallas Theological Seminary, his
A.M. (1943) from
Southern Methodist University
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and his
Ph.D. (1945) in
Archaeology
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and
Semitic languages
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic,
Amharic, Tigrinya language, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew language, Hebrew, Maltese language, Maltese, Modern South Arabian language ...
from
Johns Hopkins University
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. Feinberg married Anne Priscilla Fraiman in 1935, and together they had three children (
Paul, Lois and
John).
Career
Feinberg joined the faculty of
Dallas Theological Seminary as professor of Old Testament in 1934 and began radio broadcasting messages the following year.
During that time, he also served as pastor of a church from 1936 to 1940.
In 1948, Feinberg joined the faculty of what would later become
Talbot Theological Seminary, and in 1952 became its first and longest-serving dean.
He also served as pastor at two
Los Angeles
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churches until 1955. In 1958, he oversaw an update to ''The Fundamentals'', a defense of the central teachings of Christianity, and later was on the team that originally translated the
New American Standard Bible
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.
In 1981, a ''
Festschrift
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'' was published in his honor. ''Tradition and Testament : Essays in Honor of Charles Lee Feinberg'' included contributions from
John F. Walvoord,
Bruce K. Waltke,
Walter C. Kaiser Jr., and
Gleason L. Archer.
Works
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Festschrift
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References
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1909 births
1995 deaths
20th-century American Jews
20th-century American translators
20th-century evangelicals
American biblical scholars
Biola University faculty
Converts to Evangelicalism from Judaism
Dallas Theological Seminary alumni
Jewish translators of the Bible
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Old Testament scholars
Southern Methodist University alumni
Translators of the Bible into English