David Daube is not well known or much acknowledged in the United States, even among scripture scholars. In Britain, however, he is recognized as a world-class scholar. Daube, who died in 1999 after a ...

David Daube, who has died aged 90, was one of the major academic lawyers of this century. He combined a familiarity with many legal traditions, particularly Roman law and biblical law, with an ...

From David Daube, the renowned scholar of biblical and Roman law, who was a professor at Oxford and Berkeley among other places: "As regards interpretation, the author of the Rhetoric to Alexander ...