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1931 Born in Romania
1971 Ph.D. Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1975 Senior Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University
1976 - 77 Visiting Member, Wolfson College, Oxford
1977 Senior Lecturer, Leeds University
1979-80 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem
1980 Associate Professor, Tel-Aviv University
1980-95 Head of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies
1981- Member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language
1983- Member of the Société Asiatique, Paris
1983-84 Visiting Professor, University of Paris VIII
1985- Full Professor, Tel-Aviv University.
Member of the Steering Committee of the Société d'Études Samaritaines, Paris
Member of the Council of the World Union for Jewish Studies
1985-88 Head of the School for Jewish Studies, Tel-Aviv University
1988-89 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
1992-2011 Editor-in-Chief, The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (The Academy of the Hebrew Language).
1993- Member of the Editorial Staff of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta, University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (Stuttgart)
1999 Professor Emeritus, Tel-Aviv University
2001 Scholar-in-Residence, Mandelbaum House, University of Sydney
2005-2009 Vice President of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
2012 Gesenius Gastprofessor, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle/Salle.
Publications
Books
1. The Language of the Targum of the Former Prophets and its Position within the Aramaic Dialects, Tel-Aviv University Press, 1975 (in Hebrew).
2. The Samaritan Targum of the Pentateuch, vols. I-III, Tel-Aviv University Press, 1980—1983.
3. The Samaritan Pentateuch edited according to MS 6 (C) of the Shekhem Synagogue, Tel-Aviv University Press, 1994.
4. Samaritan Marriage Contracts (with R. Pummer), Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, pp. 181-255.
5. A Companion to Samaritan Studies (with A. D. Crown and R. Pummer) J. C. B. Mohr, Tübingen 1993.
6. A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic, vols. I-II, E. J. Brill, Leiden 2000.
7. The Pentateuch, The Samaritan Version and the Masoretic Version, Edited and Annotated (with Moshe Florentin), Tel-Aviv 2010.
Selected Articles
Linguistic Strata in Palestinian Aramaic, the nun finale as Criterion, Leshonenu 43 (1980), pp. 165—184 (in Hebrew).
The Infinitive in Palestinian Aramaic, M. Bar-Asher et alii, Hebrew Language Studies Presented to Zeev Ben-Hayyim, Jerusalem 1983, 201 -218 (in Hebrew).
Investigations in Palestinian Aramaic, The Demonstrative Pronoun, Leshonenu 44 (1981), 43—65 (in Hebrew).
The Contribution of Samaritan Aramaic to the Understanding of the Hebrew Liturgy, Te‘uda 3 (1984), 167—179, (in Hebrew).
The Dialects of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic and the Palestinian Targum of the Pentateuch, Sefarad 46 (1986), 441-448.
Hebrew and Aramaic in Samaritan Literature — The Products of a Bilingual Society, Proceedings of the Israel Academy for Sciences and Humanities 7 (1988), 239—255, (in Hebrew).
The Origin, Purpose and History of the Samaritan Targum and its Hermeneutical Character, Miqra, Compendia rerum iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Philadelphia 1988, 189-216.
Observations on Word-formation in Samaritan Aramaic I, Journal for Semitic Studies Supplements 4, Oxford University Press 1995, 209—216.
Observations on Word-formation in Samaritan Aramaic II, Scripta Hierosolymitana 37 (1998), 349-364.
The Hebrew Pentateuch in the Eyes of the Samaritan Translator, Interpretation of the Bible, Ljubljana 1998, 341-352.
Divergent Traditions of the Samaritan Pentateuch as Reflected by its Aramaic Targum, JAB 1 (1999), pp. 297—314
Is There a Raison d'Etre for an Aramaic Targum in a Hebrew-speaking Society? Revue d'Études Juives 160 (2001), 357-378.
Euphemisms in the Samaritan Targum of the Pentateuch. Aramaic Studies, 1 (2003), 109-129.
The Status of Onqelos in Medieval Aramaic Works, Leּshonenu 65/3 (2003), 261-278 (in Hebrew).
Le Pentateuque Samaritain, in L‘enfance de la Bible hébraïque, 3e cycle sur l'histoire du texte de l'Ancien Testament à la lumière des recherches reecentes, Le Monde de la Bible 52, Labor et Fides, Genève 2005, pp. 77-104.
On Secondary Word-Formation in Samaritan Aramaic, Y. Avishur (ed.), Haivrit weahyoteha, Studies in Hebrew Language and its Contact with semitic Languages and Jewish Languages, vols. 4-5, Festschrift Presented to Prof. M. Azar, University of Haifa 2004-2005, 145-154.
The Tora in Tibat Marqe quotations and allusions, Leshonenu 70 (2008), 287-302 (in Hebrew).
"Hebrew Language" and "Holy Language" between Judea and Samaria, Joszef Zsengeler (ed.), Samaria, Samarians, Samaritans, Berlin-Boston 2011, 187-202.
From Qumran to Shekhem on Hidden Paths, Meghillot 7, 227-235 (in Hebrew).
The Genizah Fragments of Targum Esther and their Testimony, משאת אהרן Festschrift Dotan, Jerusalem 2009, 132 - 171 (in Hebrew).
Awards