Contributors
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1 Chanan Ariel (PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusaelm, 2018) is a lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Language and Semitic Linguistics at Tel-Aviv University. His research focuses on Classical and Medieval Hebrew. He recently received a research grant from the ISF to study Maimonides’ own Hebrew translations from his Judaeo-Arabic writings in comparison to other medieval translations of these texts.
2 Lutz Edzard (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1992) is Professor of Arabic and Semitic linguistics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research interests include comparative Semitic and Afroasiatic linguistics with a focus on phonology, Arabic and Hebrew linguistics, and the history of diplomatic documents in Semitic languages. He is the editor, together with Rudolf de Jong, of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics online at Brill, and, with Stephan Guth, of the online Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. He serves as the Semitics editor for Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft and, with Stephan Guth, as the editor for the series Porta Linguarum Orientalium at Harrassowitz.
3 Steven E. Fassberg (PhD, Harvard University, 1984) is Caspar Levias Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages in the Department of Hebrew Language at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Director of the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies. He is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. His teaching and research have focused on Biblical Hebrew, the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Aramaic dialectology, and Northwest Semitic. His most recent book is An Introduction to the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (Bialik Institute, 2019).
4 Ariel Gabbay (PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2017) is a senior faculty member at Orot Yisrael College of Education, where he teaches modern and ancient Hebrew and oversees the linguistic training programme of students who are to serve as Hebrew teachers. His research focuses on reading traditions of Mishnaic Hebrew, especially Sephardic traditions. His articles have been published in Language Studies (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Lešonenu (The Academy of the Hebrew Language).
5 Jorik (F. J.) Groen is an external PhD student at the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics, under the supervision of Prof. Dr Holger Gzella and Dr Benjamin D. Suchard. The topic of his dissertation is the Biblical Hebrew verb הָלְך ‘to go’, describing its semantics and functions. He has previously published on second-millennium BCE Northwest Semitic and the plural formation of Proto-Semitic CVCC-nouns (with Benjamin Suchard).
6 Aaron D. Hornkohl (PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012) is the author of Linguistic Periodization and the Language of Jeremiah (Brill, 2013), a translated adaptation of his doctoral dissertation, and co-editor (with Geoffrey Khan) of Studies in Semitic Vocalisation (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2020). He holds the positions of Hebrew Language Teaching Officer and Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. His research is philological/linguistic in nature, focusing on ancient Hebrew, and encompassing diachrony and linguistic periodisation; syntax, pragmatics, and the verbal system; the Tiberian written and reading and non-Tiberian Hebrew traditions; textual criticism and literary formation; and historical and contemporary exegesis. He serves on the editorial board of the series Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures.
7 Bo Isaksson (PhD, Uppsala, 1987) is Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at Uppsala University. His research has concerned Classical Hebrew in comparative perspective and Arabic dialectology. In recent years he has initiated two research projects on clause linking in Semitic languages which have generated a number of publications: Clause Combining in Semitic (Harrassowitz, 2015), Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages (Harrassowitz, 2014), Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic: The Case of Arabic and Hebrew (Harrassowitz, 2009). His present topic of research is clause linking and the linguistic reality behind the ‘consecutive tenses’ in Classical Hebrew.
8 Elisheva Jeffay is an MA candidate at Bar-Ilan University, where she received her BA in Linguistics and French. Her research is linguistic, focusing on names in Biblical Hebrew from a syntactic and semantic perspective. Her MA thesis will explore the syntactic position of gentilic and personal proper names, as well as their semantics and lexical composition.
9 Ethan C. Jones (PhD, SWBTS, 2016) is the author of Valency of the Hithpael in the series Arbeiten zu Text und Sprache im Alten Testament (EOS, 2017). He has edited a volume on ancient Hebrew (Eisenbrauns, 2018). He is currently completing the book Solomon: Language, Linguistics, and Interpretation of 1 Kings 3–11 (Fortress Academic). He was recently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (Hebrew Studies). He teaches in Texas (USA). His research focuses on the intersection of linguistics and interpretation of ancient Hebrew. His most recent research appears in journals such as JSS, ZAW, JSOT, VT, and JNSL.
10 Geoffrey Khan (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1984) is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology, and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics and is the senior editor of Journal of Semitic Studies. His most recent book is The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, 2 vols, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 1 (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2020).
11 Cody Kingham (PhD candidate, University of Cambridge) applies Machine Learning and data-driven methods to the study of Biblical Hebrew. He has co-authored articles on Hebrew databases and probabilistic models of Hebrew grammar. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis which looks at the collocational behaviour of time adverbials using cognitive linguistics and advanced statistical approaches.
12 Aaron Koller (PhD, Yeshiva University, 2008) is professor of Near Eastern Studies at Yeshiva University, where he studies Semitic languages. He is the author of Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought (JPS/University of Nebraska Press, 2020) and Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2014), among other books, and the editor of five more. Aaron has served as a visiting professor at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and held research fellowships at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research and the Hartman Institute. He lives in Queens, NY, with his partner, Shira Hecht-Koller, and their children.
13 Christian Locatell (PhD, Stellenbosch University, 2017) is Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Grammatical Polysemy in the Hebrew Bible (Brill, forthcoming), an updated revision of his doctoral dissertation, and co-editor of Ancient Texts and Modern Readers (Brill, 2019). His research focus is the linguistic analysis of biblical and ancient Northwest Semitic languages, with additional work on biblical interpretation and archaeology.
14 Christo H. J. van der Merwe (DLitt, Stellenbosch University, 1988) is a professor of Ancient Languages at Stellenbosch University. His research focuses on Biblical Hebrew linguistics (in particular semantics and pragmatics); Bible Translation and the teaching of Biblical Hebrew (for special purposes). He served from 2005 to 2019 as source language expert for the 2020-translation of the Bible in Afrikaans. His most recent book (as co-author) is A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar (2nd edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2017). He is currently the editor of the Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages.
15 Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé (PhD, University of Chicago, 1992) is a senior professor in the Department of Hebrew, University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa). Her research publications focus on Biblical Hebrew linguistics, especially syntax and pragmatics, the syntactic structures of Shilluk (a Nilo-Saharan language of South Sudan), and Bible translation. She is a co-editor of the series Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic (Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press). She also co-edited Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew (Eisenbrauns, 2012).
16 Jacobus A. Naudé (DLitt, University of the Free State, 1996) is a senior professor in the Department of Hebrew, University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa). His research publications focus on Biblical Hebrew linguistics, especially from generative and complexity theoretical perspectives, religious translation, and translation theory. He serves on the editorial boards of Folia Orientalia and Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages and is a co-editor of the series Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic (Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press). He is a co-author of A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar (2nd edition, Bloomsbury, 2017).
17 Tania Notarius (PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007) holds the positions of Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew and Ancient Northwest Semitic Languages in the Rothberg International School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Lecturer and Head of the MA Program of Near Eastern Languages at Polis, the Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities; and Affiliate Researcher at the University of Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa). Her research focuses on the linguistics of Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Hebrew and Aramaic epigraphy. She is the author of The Verb in Archaic Biblical Poetry (Brill, 2013) as well as numerous articles.
18 Na’ama Pat-El (PhD, Harvard University, 2008) is Associate Professor of Semitic Languages and Linguistics at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research is focused on historical linguistics, mostly syntactic change, and language contact. She has recently edited with John Huehnergard the second edition of The Semitic Languages (Routledge, 2019).
19 Nick Posegay (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2021) is a PhD candidate and a research assistant at the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit. His work focuses on cross-cultural contact in the intellectual history of the Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew languages. In particular, his research publications examine biblical and Qurʾanic scribal traditions, Arabic historical dialectology, Genizah history, and medieval linguistic thought.
20 Gary A. Rendsburg (PhD, New York University, 1980) serves as the Blanche and Irving Laurie Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA). His teaching and research areas include the history of the Hebrew language, ancient Semitic languages, interconnections between ancient Egypt and ancient Israel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, medieval Hebrew manuscripts, and Jewish life in the Middle Ages. He is the author of seven books and about 190 articles. His most recent book is How the Bible Is Written (Hendrickson, 2019), with particular attention to the use of language to create literature. In addition, he served as one of the associate editors of Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2013).
21 Elizabeth Robar (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2013) is author of The Verb and the Paragraph: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach (Brill, 2014), an adaptation of her doctoral dissertation. She founded Cambridge Digital Bible Research, a charity to make biblical scholarship available, accessible, and useful to interpreters of the Bible. Her research is philological, linguistic, and exegetical in nature, focusing on the Biblical Hebrew verbal system, syntax, linguistic change, and the ramifications of research in these areas for exegetical interpretation.
22 Ambjörn Sjörs (PhD, Uppsala University, 2015) is a postdoctoral researcher in Semitic linguistics and philology. His research interests include comparative-historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. His postdoctoral research project is an investigation of the ventive and energic verb forms in Semitic.
23 Daniel J. Wilson (PhD, University of the Free State, 2018) is the author of Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular Sentences: Insights from Classical Hebrew (John Benjamins, 2020), a reworking of his dissertation. He is a Research Fellow in the Department of Hebrew at University of the Free State and works in cooperation with the Department of Caucasian Languages in the Institute of Linguistics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research includes the application of formal approaches to syntax and semantics to Classical Hebrew. He is also actively engaged in fieldwork and documentation of endangered languages of the Caucasus, writing on interesting morpho-syntactic phenomena as they relate to discussions in theoretical linguistics.
24 Ellen van Wolde (PhD, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, 1989) is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Textual Sources of Judaism at Radboud University. Her research focuses on biblical books (especially the Torah and the Writings), on linguistics (especially syntax, semantics, and cognitive grammar), and on methodology (from structuralism and semiotics via literary studies to cognitive linguistic approaches). She considers her book Reframing Biblical Studies: When Language and Text Meet Culture, Cognition, and Context (Eisenbrauns, 2009) her major contribution to the field. The subtitle expresses her main concern, namely how to study biblical texts in their linguistic, cultural, and cognitive contexts of origin.
25 Yehonatan Wormser (PhD, University of Haifa, 2017) is the author of Hebrew Grammar in Ahkenaz in Early Modern Times: The Linguistic Theory of Rabbi Zalman Hena (Hanau) (Bialik Institute, in press), an adaptation of his doctoral dissertation. He teaches Hebrew language and linguistics in Efrata College of Education in Jerusalem and Gordon Academic College in Haifa, and serves as Ben-Yehudah fellow in the Department of Hebrew Language at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on Jewish linguistic thought during the Middle Ages and early-modern times, and on Rabbinic Hebrew, especially the language of the late Midrashim.

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