Baruch A. Levine: A Brief Biography

Baruch A. Levine was the elder of two sons of Benjamin B. and Helen K. Levine. He was born on July 10, 1930, in Cleveland, Ohio and had a younger brother, Joseph H. Levine.

In Cleveland Heights, Baruch Levine attended the public schools and graduated from Heights High School in 1948. In 1951 he earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature with an emphasis on French literature from Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. It was here that he acquired the sensitivity to literary issues that would play so great a role in his analysis of biblical texts.

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