About

Prof. Breuer has been part of the Hebrew University research community forover 40 years, he is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. He deals mainly with Talmudic Hebrew and Aramaic.

Selected Publications

The Hebrew in the Babylonian Talmud according to the Manuscripts of Tractate Pesahim, Jerusalem 2002

From Aramaic into Hebrew: the Method of Translation in the Book Hilkhot Re’u, Jerusalem 2020

“Perfect and Participle in Description of Ritual in the Mishnah”, Tarbiz LVI (1987), pp. 299-326

“Dissonance between Masoretic Accentuation and Vocalization in Verse Division of the Biblical Text”, M. Bar-Asher (ed.) Rabbi Mordechai Breuer Festschrift, Jerusalem 1992, pp. 191-242

“The Babylonian Aramaic in Tractate Karetot: According to MS Oxford”, Aramaic Studies 5.1 (2007), pp. 1–45

Teaching

Mishnaic Hebrew

Babylonian Aramaic

The Massora

The Language of S.Y. Agnon

Linguistic Studies in the Interpretation of the Bible

About

Prof. Fassberg teaches and researches Biblical Hebrew, the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Aramaic dialectology, Northwest Semitics, and Comparative Semitic philology. He has served in several administrative positions at the university and is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.

Selected Publications

Studies in the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (סוגיות בתחביר המקרא). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994. 202 pp. (in Hebrew)

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa. Semitic Languages and Linguistics 54. Leiden: Brill, 2010. 314 pp. + XVIII.

An Introduction to the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (מבוא לתחביר לשון המקרא). Biblical Encyclopaedia Library 36. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2019. 286 pp. +  XXI.

Teaching

Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Biblical Hebrew

Comparative Semitic Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology

Hebrew and the Semitic Languages

Hebrew Morphology

Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls

History of the Hebrew Language (from Its Origins to the End of the Amoraic Period)

Introduction to Aramaic (Parts I and II)

Language of Biblical Poetry

Language of the Book of Job

Late Western Aramaic

Old Aramaic Inscriptions

Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions

Ugaritic

Western Neo-Aramaic

About

Yael Reshef is an expert on Modern Hebrew, and in particular, on its emergence processes during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Selected Publications

Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020

Linguistic Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series], Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019 (ed., with E. Doron, M. Rapaport Hovav, M. Taube)

Hebrew in the Mandate Period. Jerusalem: The Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2015 [in Hebrew]

The Early Hebrew Folksong: A Chapter in the History of Modern Hebrew. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2004 [in Hebrew]

Selected Awards

Recipient of the Ze’ev Ben-Hayyim Prize for Excellence in the Study of Hebrew Language and Literature, awarded by The Academy of the Hebrew Language

Teaching

History of the Hebrew Language: From Early Medieval Period until the Revival of Hebrew Speech

Modern Hebrew

Sociolinguistics

Speech and Speech Representation

Selected Topics in Pragmatics

Topics in the History of Modern Hebrew

Structural Features of contemporary Hebrew

Selected Topics in Modern Hebrew Gramma

Language and Interaction

Modern Hebrew as a Language of Culture

Modern Hebrew: The First Decades