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Bible Department
The Faculty of Humanities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem, 9190501

Department Head: Dr. Naphtali Meshel
Email: nmeshel@huji.ac.il
Rabin Building, Room 1106
Office Hours: By Appointment

Consultant to Undergraduate Students: Prof. Stefan Schorch
Email: Stefan.Schorch@mail.huji.ac.il
Rabin Building, Room 1111
Office Hours: By Appointment

Consultant to Graduate Students: Dr. Ronnie Goldstein
Email: rongol@mail.huji.ac.il
Rabin Building, Room 1105
Office Hours: By Appointment

Departmental Secretary: Ms. Maya Ben-Simchon
Email: mayabe@savion.huji.ac.il
Telephone: +972-2-5883605
Room 45402
Office hours: Sun 10:30-14:30, Mon 12:00-14:30, Tue+Wed 10:00-14:00

Prof. Noam Mizrahi

Associate Professor, Department of Bible

noam.mizrahi@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin building, room 1110

Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and historical linguistics of biblical languages in their relation to the literary growth processes of the Bible; History of Hebrew Poetry and Prayer in the Bible and Second Temple Literature; Judean Desert Scrolls.

Prof. Shimon Gesundheit

Professor Emeritus

02-5883508

Shimon.Gesundheit@mail.huji.ac.il

Prof. Ronnie Goldstein

Associate Professor, Department of Bible

B.A. Advisor

02-5883515

rongol@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 1105. Office Hours by appointment by e-mail

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.

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Prof. Avi Hurvitz

Professor Emeritus

02-5881814

avi.hurvitz@gmail.com

Rabin Building, Room 3210

Prof. Sara Japhet

Professor Emerita

sjaphet@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 5139

Prof. Menahem Kister

Department of Bible and Department of Talmud

02-5883522

menahem.kister@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 1111. Office Hours: Monday, 15:00-16:00

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

Prof. Israel Knohl

Professor Emeritus

Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible

02-5883535

iknohl@gmail.com

Humanities Building, Room 6107

Personal Website

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).

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Prof. Simcha Kogut

Professor Emeritus, Department of Bible and the Department of Hebrew Language

02-5883519

skogut@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 5118

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)

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Dr. Lea Mazor

Professor Emeritus

02-5883600

mazor.lea@gmail.com

Humanities Building, Room 5121

Dr. Naphtali S. Meshel

Department Chair

Senior Lecturer, Department of Bible and the Department of Comparative Religion

02-5880308

nmeshel@huji.ac.il

Personal Website

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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.

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Prof. Shalom Paul

Professor Emeritus

shalom.paul@mail.huji.ac.il

Prof. Alexander Rofé

Professor Emeritus

02-5883582

alexander.rofe@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 5129

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

Prof. Stefan Schorch

Professor, Department of Bible

M.A. Advisor

Stefan.Schorch@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin building, Room 1111 |Office hours: By email appointment.

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Prof. Baruch J. Schwartz

Associate Professor, Department of Bible

02-5883602

schwrtz@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 1114. Office hours: Sunday, 15:30-16:30

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

Prof. Michael Segal

Father Takeji Otsuki Professor of Biblical Studies

02-5883510

michael.segal@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 1103. Office Hours: Monday 13:15-14:15

Personal Website

academia.edu Page

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

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