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Emeritus Faculty | The Department of Hebrew Language

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Department Chair: Prof. Adina Moshavi
adina.moshavi@mail.huji.ac.il

BA Advisor: Dr. ​​​​​​​Aynat Rubinstein
​​​​​​​aynat.rubinstein@mail.huji.ac.il

MA Advisor: Prof. Ofra Tirosh-Becker
otirosh@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Secretary: Ms. Iris Pereg
irispe@savion.huji.ac.il
Phone: 025883975 
Room: 6709

Emeritus Faculty

HURVITZ

Prof. Avi Hurvitz

Research interests: The historical development of Hebrew and its relationship with other Semitic languages during biblical and post-biblical periods; Northwest Semitic; Epigraphy; Aramaic dialectology; the Dead Sea Scrolls; Linguistic studies in the realm of biblical criticism.

KUGUT

Prof. Simcha Kogut

Research interests: Medieval Ashkenazi Hebrew; Syntax of Hebrew and its historical development; Biblical and Modern Hebrew — similarities and differences; Biblical exegesis; Aramaic translations of the Bible; Biblical accentuation — syntactic and exegetical perspectives.

MAMAN

Prof. Aharon Maman

Research interests: Rabbinic and Karaite linguistic traditions and grammatical thought of the 10-13th centuries, and discovery of unknown texts from this era in the Geniza; Medieval Judeo-Arabic in the Cairo Geniza; North African reading traditions of the Bible and other classical texts.