Yehezkel Kaufmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yehezkel Kaufmann

Israeli academic

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1889

Place of Birth: Dunaivtsi, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 09-Oct-1963

Profession: historian, philosopher, biblical scholar

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Yehezkel Kaufmann (Hebrew: ?????? ??????; also: Ye?ezqêl Qâufman; Ye?ez?el ?oyfman; Jehezqël Kaufmann) (1889 – 9 October 1963) was an Israeli philosopher and Biblical scholar associated with the Hebrew University.
His main contribution to the study of biblical religion was his thesis that Israel's monotheism was not a gradual development from paganism but entirely new.