Advisory Team

MARGARETHA FOLMER

Margaretha Folmer is Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Biblical Hebrew) and Assistant Professor at Leiden University (Aramaic). She wrote her dissertation on linguistic variation in Achaemenid Period Aramaic.

GEOFFREY KHAN

Geoffrey Khan (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 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 in the field of Biblical Hebrew linguistics is The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, 2 vols, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 1 (University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2020).

URSULA SCHATTNER RIESER

Ursula Schattner Rieser is an expert in Semitic linguistics and ancient Judaism, specializing in the languages of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Samaritan traditions, and publishing extensively on Hebrew and Aramaic. She has taught at EPHE–Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique de Paris, and is now Professor of Semitic Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck.
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/sprachwissenschaft/team/ursula-schattner-rieser/

BENJAMIN SUCHARD

Benjamin Suchard, PhD (2016, Leiden University) is a postdoctoral researcher in Semitics at KU Leuven and Ghent University, Belgium, and a guest researcher at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His publications include The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels (2019; Leiden: Brill), Aramaic Daniel (2022; Leiden: Brill), and ‘What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre-Islamic Arabic?’ (2023; Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 34.1, 158–172).