Semitic Philology

Writing, research and teaching in the field of Semitic Philology.

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• A book, articles, and a conference lecture.
  • Semitic Noun Patterns, Harvard Semitic Studies 52. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN, 2003. See the book's page on this site.
  • Review of Phonologies of Asia and Africa, Journal of the American Oriental Society 119, 1999, pp. 528-29.
  • Review of Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets, Bibliotheca Orientalis 55, 1998, col. 458-68
  • "Gemination of C₂ in Noun Patterns in Hebrew and Other Semitic Languages" (Hebrew), Lešonénu 61, 1998, pp.19-30
  • "The Ugaritic Divine Epithet ybmt limm and the Biblical 'êmîm," Ugarit Forschungen 30, 1998, pp. 279-88
  • "Isolated Nouns in the Semitic Languages," Zeitschrift für Althebraistik 11, 1998, 1-31
  • "A Sequence of Vowel Shifts in Phoenician and Related Languages," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 55, 1996, pp. 37-47.
  • Noun Patterns in the Semitic Languages, Dissertation, Harvard University, 1996.
  • Conference talk: "A Sequence of Vowel Shifts in Phoenician and Other Languages", Joint Session of the American Oriental Society and the North American Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Association, 1994.
• Research and teaching
  • Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Rehovot, Israel, 1997-98, 1994.
    Lecturer. Conducted advanced linguistic research; developed and taught college courses in Hebrew and English. Published scientific articles in leading research journals in English and Hebrew.
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1996-97, 1994, 1993, 1991.
    Lecturer, Instructor, Teaching Fellow. Conducted advanced linguistic research; developed and taught undergraduate and doctoral courses. Published scientific articles in leading research journals.