Emeriti 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.