Research Interests: Temple and cult; the Dead Sea Scrolls
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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
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; 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.
