Abraham Haim Schalit (Hebrew: אברהם שליט; 1898 – 21 August 1979)[1] was an Israeli historian and a scholar of the Second Temple period.
Schalit was born in 1898 in the Galician town of Zolochiv, then in Austria-Hungary (from 1918 to 1939 in Poland and now in Ukraine).
In 1950, he joined the faculty of History Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was appointed a professor in 1959.
The discovery of his lost 1925 Vienna dissertation on Josephus shows a shift in his views.
He originally saw Josephus as a bad historian but a patriot, sincerely seeking to further the rebels' cause against Rome.