Teaching staff
| Name | Affiliation | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. David Abulafia | History | Professor of Mediterranean History | Maritime history |
| Dr James Aitken | Divinity | Lecturer in Hebrew, Old Testament and Second Temple Studies | Old Testament and Second Temple Studies; LXX and Koine Greek |
| Dr Ruth Davis | Music | Reader in Ethnomusicology | Music of North Africa, the Middle East, and the wider Mediterranean |
| Dr Katharine Dell | Divinity | Reader in Old Testament Literature and Theology | Hebrew Bible and Wisdom Literature |
| Prof Simon Goldhill | Classics | Professor of Greek Literature and Culture | Greek Tragedy; Greek Culture; Literary Theory; Later Greek Literature; Reception |
| Dr Aaron D Hornkohl | FAMES | Language Teaching Officer in Hebrew | Hebrew Language, Semitic Philology, Linguistic Periodisation and Diachronic Philology, Textual Criticism, Bible Translation |
| Prof. Geoffrey Khan | FAMES | Regius Professor of Hebrew | Hebrew and Semitic Philology |
| Prof Judith Lieu | Classics | Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity | New Testament, Second-century Christianity, the early church in their Jewish and Greco-Roman context, gender and the early church |
| Dr Nathan MacDonald | Divinity | Lecturer in Hebrew Bible | Pentateuch; Former Prophets; Isaiah; Ezekiel |
| Dr Ben Outhwaite | University Library | Head of the Genizah Research Unit | Medieval Hebrew Language and the Cairo Genizah Documents |
| Dr Yaron Peleg | FAMES | Kennedy Leigh Lecturer in Modern Hebrew | Modern Hebrew Literature and Contemporary Israeli Culture |
| Dr Michael Rand | FAMES | Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic | Piyyut (Medieval Hebrew Poetry) |
| Dr Daniel H. Weiss | Divinity | Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies | Modern Jewish thought and philosophy, Interreligious dialogue and communication, Literary, ethical, and philosophical approaches to biblical and rabbinic literature |
| Dr Peter Williams | Tyndale House | Affiliated Lecturer, Warden, Tyndale House | Early Bible Translations, Textual Criticism, Syriac |
Emeritus Staff
| Name | Affiliation | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Graham Davies | Divinity | Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Studies | Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew Inscriptions, Semitic Philology, Old Testament |
| Prof. Nicholas de Lange | Divinity | Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Jewish Studies | Byzantine Judaism |
| Prof. David Ford | Divinity | Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity | |
| Prof. Robert Gordon | FAMES | Regius Professor Emeritus of Hebrew | Old Testament |
| The Rev. Prof. William Norbury | Divinity | Professor Emeritus of Jewish and Early Christian Studies | Graeco-Roman World, Old Testament, New Testament, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Hebrew |
Affiliated Staff
| Name | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Catherine Ansorge | Near Eastern Department, Cambridge University Library | Historical Bibliography and Manuscript Codicology; Acquisition and Cataloguing of Hebrew Publications into the UL Collections. |
| Dr Tali Artman | Research Associate in Israel Studies | Hebrew Literature (Folk, Rabbinic/Talmudic), Early Christianity, Digital Humanities, History, Cultural Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Mythology |
| Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, CRASHH | Early modern and modern European intellectual history and the history of scholarship |
| Dr Gabriele Ferrario | Research Associate, Genizah Research Unit | Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Alchemy, Magic and Science |
| Dr Shai Heijmans | Research Associate, Gesenius Hebrew Grammar Revision Project |
Rabbinic Hebrew, Hebrew Language Traditions, Biblical Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Hebrew Manuscripts, Koine Greek |
| Dr Julia Krivoruchko | Research Associate, Genizah Research Unit | Judaeo-Greek, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics |
| Dr Kim Phillips | Research Associate, Genizah Research Unit | Old Testament, Medieval Hebrew, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Hebrew, Middle Ages |
| Dr Melonie Schmierer-Lee | Research Associate, Genizah Research Unit |
Hebrew and Aramaic Documentary Material in the Cairo Genizah |
| Dr Nadia Vidro | Affiliated Researcher (FAMES / UCL) | History of Hebrew Linguistics |
| Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner | Junior Research Fellow, Woolf Institute; Research Associate, Genizah Research Unit | Social Linguistics, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic manuscripts |
PhD Students
| Name | Faculty | Research Topic | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oz Aloni | FAMES | 'The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Zakho' | Prof. Geoffrey Khan |
| Jennifer Andrushka | Divinity | 'Intertextual Connections between Proverbs and Song of Songs' | Dr Katharine Dell |
| Lindsey Askin | Divinity | 'Scribal Culture and the Book of Ben Sira' | Dr James Aitken |
| Samuel Blapp | FAMES | 'A Comparative Study of the Tiberian Vocalisation Traditions of Biblical Hebrew.
Evidence from the Cairo Genizah'
|
Prof. Geoffrey Khan |
| Magdalen Connolly | FAMES | 'Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic of the Ottoman Period from the Cairo Genizah Collections' | Prof. Geoffrey Khan |
| Bruno Clifton, OP | Divinity | 'Contextualisation of the Book of Judges' | |
| Olga Fabrikantova | Divinity | 'The Book of Jeremiah: Scribalism and Prophecy' | |
| Li Huiruo | FAMES | 'Literary Reflections of Nationalism' | Dr Yaron Peleg |
| Arthur Keefer | Divinity |
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Dr Katharine Dell |
| Luca Koronli |
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| Johan Lundberg | FAMES |
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Prof. Geoffrey Khan |
| Brittany Melton | Divinity | 'Divine Presence and Absence in the Megilloth' | Dr Katharine Dell |
| Suzie Millar | Divinity | 'Openness in the Book of Proverbs' | Dr Katharine Dell |
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Rosalie Moloney |
Divinity | 'Putting Tamar in her Place (Genesis 38)' | |
| Peter D. Myers | FAMES | 'Hebrew Phonology: Transcription of Hebrew in Greek Script' | Prof. Geoffrey Khan |
| Andrew Niggemann | Divinity | Hebrew Bible, Jewish Christian Studies | |
| Susannah Pearce | FAMES | 'Zionism and Nature in Modern Hebrew Literature' | Dr Yaron Peleg |
| William Ross | Divinity | 'A Lexical Study of Greek Judges' | Dr James Aitken |
| Daniel Ryan | Divinity | 'Coins of Alexander Jannaeus and Jewish Identity' | Dr James Aitken |
| Sebastian Selvén | Divinity | 'The Jewish and Christian Interpretation of Isaiah 6.3 and its Liturgical Significance' | |
| Simon Walsh | Divinity | A reconsideration of the literary genre of the War Scroll (1QM)' | Dr James Aitken |
| Nick Widdows | Divinity | 'Educating for Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs' | Dr Katharine Dell |
| Luke Wisley | Divinity | 'Wise King? Solomon in the Canon' | Dr Katharine Dell |
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Dr Katharine Dell | ||
MPhil Students
| Name | Faculty | Research Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorota Molin | FAMES | 'Biblical citations in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls' | Prof Geoffrey Khan |
| Honoria Connolly | FAMES | 'Massoret ha-Massoret and its reception by Renaissance Christian Hebraists' | Dr Michael Rand |
Visiting Researcher
| Talmudic Studies, Linguistics and Philosophy | stefgoltz@gmail.com |