Research interests: Prophetic literature; the Bible in its ancient Near Eastern environment.

Dr. Ronnie Goldstein received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 2006. His work focuses mainly on Biblical historiography, prophecy, and the cultural interactions between Biblical and ancient Near Eastern literature and its impact upon the history of Biblical literature.

Naphtali Meshel joined the Department of Bible and the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2016. His research focuses on the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern contexts, and on its early interpreters. Within the broader study of religion, he has a particular interest in Sanskrit literature. His first book, “The Grammar of Sacrifice”, examines the ancient intuition that sacrificial rituals, like languages, are governed by “grammars.” His research interests include ancient models for the “science of ritual”; systems of pollution and purification; and mechanisms of double entendre in Wisdom Literature. He previously taught at the Moscow State University for the Humanities and at Princeton University.

Joined the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University in 2023. Research interests: Textual history of the Hebrew Bible, Conceptual history of Biblical literature, Jewish literature in the Second Temple period, Biblical Hebrew, Samaritan Pentateuch, Samaritan exegesis of the Torah, Septuagint, History of research.

Research interests: Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, including biblical Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient translations; early Jewish biblical exegesis; Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, including late biblical books, Apocrypha, Psedepigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Additional academic responsibilities:

• Editor, Hebrew University Bible Project
• Editor, Textus, vols. 23-
• Chair, Academic Committee, Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature

Research interests: History of the Biblical times; the Bible in its ancient Near Eastern environment.

Research Interests: Ancient biblical interpretation, Aramaic Targumim, Dead See Scrolls.

Research Interests: Temple and cult; the Dead Sea Scrolls

Israel Knohl has a doctorate in Bible from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as a visiting professor at University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University and the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Selected Publications:

The Sanctuary of Silence (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1994), which won the Z. Shkopp Prize for Biblical Studies.

The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls (University of California Press, 2000), which was published in eight languages

The Divine Symphony: The Bible's Many Voices (JPS, 2003).

Research Interests: Syntax and lexicology of medieval Ashkenazi Hebrew; development of syntactical structures in Hebrew; comparison of Biblical and modern Hebrew; Linguistic approach of rabbinic and medieval biblical exegesis, and the Biblical Hebrew reflected in rabbinic literature and medieval commentaries; Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic and their northwest Semitic background; the syntactical and exegetical aspects of Biblical te‘amim.

Additional academic positions:

Member, editorial board of "בלשנות עברית" (=Hebrew Linguistics)

Research Interests: Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible; the history of Biblical literature; and the history of the Israelite religion in Biblical times.

Research interests: Cult and law; Priestly literature and theology; Torah sources and composition; Classical prophetic literature; Medieval Biblical exegesis.