Notes on Contributors
Élodie Attia (Ph.D., École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, 2008), is a CNRS Researcher at the Centre Paul-Albert Février TDMAM (UMR 7297) of Aix-Marseille University. Her field is the history of the medieaval Jewish world up to the early Sixteenth Century and its book culture, with particular focus on the study of Hebrew codicology and palaeography. She has recently edited The Masorah of Elijah haNaqdan (De Gruyter, 2015) and is Principal Investigator in the Manuscripta Bibliae Hebraicae Project
Javier del Barco (Ph.D., Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 2001) is Senior researcher at the Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ILC-CSIC, Madrid). His research focuses in questions such as the study and interpretation of Hebrew manuscripts as a historical and cultural object, the relation between the object and the text, practices of reading, using and collecting manuscripts, and book transmission and circulation. He has published several catalogues of Hebrew manuscripts, among which Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Hébreu 1 à 32; Manuscrits de la Bible hébraïque (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), and has edited The Late Medieval Hebrew Book in the Western Mediterranean: Hebrew Manuscripts and Incunabula in Context (Leiden: Brill, 2015).
Anna Busa (Ph.D. candidate, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) is a research associate at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Her research publications focus on Hebrew grammar, editorial theory, book history and medieval Jewish history. She teaches courses on Hebrew and Aramaic grammar as well as rabbinic literature at the chair of Jewish studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Gilles Dorival (Ph.D., Université Paris-Sorbonne, 1984) is Emeritus Professor at University of Aix-Marseille and Honorary Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France (chair “Hellenistic Judaism and Ancient Christianity”). His researches are about the Biblical Traditions, the Septuagint, the Church Fathers, and the Catenae. He is co-director of “La Bible d' Alexandrie” series (20 volumes published). His forthcoming book will be The Septuagint from Alexandria to Constantinople. Canon, New Testament, Church Fathers, Catenae, at Oxford University Press.
Viktor Golinets (Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 2011) is Professor of Hebrew Linguistics at Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg. His research field are grammar of Masoretic Hebrew, Biblical-Hebrew lexicology, Semitic and Hebrew onomastics, manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible. He is one of the contributors to the Konzise und aktualisierte Ausgabe des Hebräischen und Aramäischen Lexikons zum Alten Testament (Brill 2013, 2019). In a number of publications, he has studied the interdependence between grammatical and textual questions in the Hebrew Bible.
Geoffrey Khan (Ph.D., SOAS, 1984) is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology, and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics and is the senior editor of Journal of Semitic Studies. His most recent book is The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, 2 vols, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 1 (University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2020).
Judith Kogel (Ph.D., École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, 2007), is a CNRS Senior researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’ Histoire des Textes (IRHT-CNRS) in Paris. Her research publications focus on three main fields: history of the Hebrew language in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Biblical exegesis and history of the collections. She is Principal Investigator in the Racines Project funded by the French ANR (2019–2023), which aims at preparing an electronic bilingual edition of David Qimḥi’s Sefer ha-shorashim, while examining its reception in both Jewish and Christian communities. Her most recent book concerns the Hebrew fragments discovered in Colmar library: Sur les traces de la bibliothèque médiévale des Juifs de Colmar (Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2019).
Drew Longacre (Ph.D., University of Birmingham, 2015) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Qumran Institute of the University of Groningen on the ERC project “The Hands that Wrote the Bible: Digital Palaeography and Scribal Culture of the Dead Sea Scrolls” (PI: Mladen Popović). He has published extensively on Hebrew and Greek paleography, manuscript studies, and textual criticism of the Judeo-Christian scriptures. His research focuses on the intersection of material philology and textual criticism.
Elvira Martín-Contreras (Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2000) is Tenured Research Fellow at the Department of Jewish and Islamic Studies of Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). She is a specialist in Masora—i. e. the marginal annotations placed in the medieval Hebrew Biblical manuscripts-, and classic rabbinic exegesis. Her research is focused on the textual transmission and the reception of the Hebrew Bible text attested in the rabbinic literature and the marginal annotations. She is author of several monographs and many articles on Rabbinic exegesis and Masorah. She is coeditor of The Text of the Hebrew Bible. From the Rabbis to the Masoretes (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014).
Matthew P. Monger (Ph.D., MF Norwegian School of Theology, 2018) is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in Oslo, Norway. His research is oriented toward Material Philology and focuses on the texts and manuscripts of the Near East in Antiquity. He has worked with a wide range of topics including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the reception of Jewish Apocrypha in Christian contexts, as well as interactions between Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts and traditions in Late Antiquity and the Early Muslim Period.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (Ph.D. Cantab., FBA, 1995) is professor of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etude, PSL, Paris, President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Professorial fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Her main research interests include medieval Hebrew palaeography and diplomatics, Cairo Geniza Studies and medieval Christian Hebraism. She is a cofounder and the scientific director of the international project Books within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries. She is the author of over 120 publications in the field of Hebrew manuscript studies.
Léo Pascal (M.A., Aix-Marseille University, 2017) is specialist of archelogy and 3D photogrammetry, Research Assistant of the MBH Project (2018).
Mauro Perani (Ph.D., Hebrew University, 2013), Professor of Hebrew at the Bologna University. President of the EAJS (2006–2010), and of the AISG (2009—present). Since 1984 working on the “Italian Genizah Project”, now merged into the Books within Books. Director and Editor of “Materia giudaica”, magazine of the AISG (2000—present). Has published dozens of monographs and hundreds of articles on themes pertaining to Judaism. His publications are available on the website
Antony Perrot (Ph.D. candidate, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) is Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament at the Faculté Libre de Théologie Evangélique de Vaux-sur-Seine (FLTE), France. He has published several articles on Dead Sea Scrolls and textual history of the Hebrew Bible. In 2019, he published the proceeding of a conference entitled: Les manuscrits de la mer Morte au lendemain de leur 70e anniversaire. Actes de la journée d’ étude HET-PRO. He is also involved in the international project Scripta Qumranica Electronica.
Kim Phillips (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2016) is a research associate in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in Cambridge’s University Library. His doctorate examined Abraham ibn Ezra’s commentary on the book of Isaiah—particularly Ibn Ezra’s controversial interpretation of chapters 40–66. His research interests include mediaeval Jewish biblical interpretation, Aramaic Bible translations, and all facets of Masoretic Studies. He teaches Hebrew and Hebrew Bible in Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity.
Matthieu Richelle (Ph.D., EPHE-Sorbonne, 2010; Habil., University of Strasbourg, 2016) is professor of Old Testament at the Université catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. He is involved in two major projects of critical editions of the Hebrew bible: the HBCE (Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition), as lead editor of 1 Kings, and the BHQ (Biblia Hebraica Quinta), a co-editor. He has published extensively on textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and North-West Semitic epigraphy.
Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2001; Habil. Aix-en-Provence 2011) is Professor of Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic at the EPHE, PSL-University in Paris. He works on Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Rabbinic literature, Jewish-Christian relations and Computational and Digital Humanities. Among his recent publications are Qumran (Tübingen / Stuttgart, 2016), the lectionary database (