Prof. Moshe Bar-Asher
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Research interests: Classical Hebrew with a focus on Mishnaic Hebrew, Palestinian Aramaic, Linguistic traditions and The Sharh of the Jews of North-Africa, Hebrew of the Jews of South-Western France.
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Emeriti Faculty
Prof. Yochanan Breuer
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Research interests: Mishnaic Hebrew, Babylonian Aramaic, Masoretic accentuation and vocalization, Midrash, the language of S. Y. Agnon.
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Prof. Avi Hurvitz
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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.
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Prof. Simcha Kogut
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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.
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Prof. Aharon Maman
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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.
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