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'''Daniel R. Schwartz''' (born 1952; {{Lang-he|דניאל שוורץ}}) is a professor of Jewish History at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rabbinic Law Between Biblical Logic and Biblical Text|url=http://www.cfhu.org/event/ottawa-lecture-rabbinic-law-between-bibilical-logic-and-biblical-text-daniel-schwartz-february|publisher=[[Carleton University]]|accessdate=23 October 2011|location=[[Ottawa]]|year=2010|quote=Daniel R. Schwartz was born in the US in 1952 and moved to Israel in 1971.}}</ref> His book ''Agrippa I'' won the 1988 Arnold Wischnitzer Prize. His ''Second Book of Maccabees'', an annotated translation into Hebrew of ''[[2 Maccabees]]'', was published in 2004, followed by a translation into English in 2008.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bloch|first=René|title=Daniel R. Schwartz, 2 Maccabees (Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature &#91;CEJL"&#93; Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008)|journal=Journal of Hebrew Scriptures|year=2009|volume=9|url=http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/reviews/reviews_new/review353.htm|accessdate=23 October 2011|editor1-first=Ehud|editor1-last=Ben Zvi}}</ref> Schwartz has served on the Committee for the Itzhak Ben-Zvi Award of the Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi Institute.<ref>{{cite journal|title= פרס יצחק בן-צבי לשנת תשנ"ד לד"ר ישראל בן-שלום|journal=Cathedra|date=June 1994|issue=72|publisher=Yitzhak Ben Zvi Institute|location=[[Jerusalem]]|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Prize for 2004 for Dr. Israel Ben-Shalom}}</ref> In 2011 he was appointed academic head of the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Prof. Daniel Schwartz has been appointed as Scholion's Academic Head|url=http://www.scholion.huji.ac.il/en/?cmd=news.103&act=read&id=127|publisher=Scholion – Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies|accessdate=23 October 2011|date=3 July 2011}}</ref>

Daniel Schwartz was born in the United States in 1952 and made [[aliyah]] to Israel in 1971. He earned a Ph.D in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980 and chaired the university's Department of Jewish History between the years 1992 and 1994. He became [[full professor]] in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|title=Schwartz, Daniel R.|url=http://jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/Profs/HU/Jewish%20History/schwartzdr.htm|publisher=[[The Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]|accessdate=23 October 2011|location=[[Jerusalem]]}}</ref>

== ''Agrippa I'' ==

[[Aryeh Kasher]] of Tel Aviv University, whose review of ''Agrippa I'' includes numerous disagreements with Schwartz, describes the biography as "an impressive work full of original and stimulating ideas."<ref>{{cite journal|title=Schwartz, Agrippa I: The Last King of Judea|journal=[[The Jewish Quarterly Review]]|date=October 1993 – January 1994|month=|volume=84|issue=2–3|pages=329–333|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1455373|accessdate=3 November 2011|author=Aryeh Kasher|authorlink=Aryeh Kasher|publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania Press]]|issn=00216682}}</ref>

== Menahem Stern legacy ==

After the murder of [[Menahem Stern]] in 1989, Schwartz was called upon to edit various drafts and fragments that Stern had been in the process of writing and that were intended to be part of a multivolume survey of Jewish history in the [[Second Temple period]]. The result was published in 1995 as ''Hasmonean Judea in the Hellenistic World: Chapters in Political History'' ([[Jerusalem]]: Zalman Shazar Center).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Goodblatt|first=David|title=Review: Menahem Stern. Hasmonean Judea in the Hellenistic World: Chapters in Political History|journal=[[AJS Review]]|year=1997|volume=22|issue=1|pages=112-114|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1486873|accessdate=24 October 2011|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref>

In the preface to his ''Second Book of Maccabees'' (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press), Schwartz re

== See also ==

* [[Agrippa I]]

* [[Hellenistic Judaism]]

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