Biography
Kaufmann was born in Ukraine. His Talmudic knowledge was acquired at the yeshiva of Rav Tzair in Odessa and in Petrograd, and his philosophical and Biblical training were at the University of Berne. He completed his doctorate on "the principle of sufficient reason" in 1918, and had it published in 1920 in Berlin. He began teaching in Palestine in 1928, and became Professor of Bible at Hebrew University in 1949.
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