Takamitsu muraoka biography of albert

          Collected essays on the Old Greek Psalter by linguistic and textual scholars highlighting its significance for biblical research and related disciplines....

          This tribute to Albert Pietersma of the University of Toronto is offered by a highly distinguished international panel of scholars.

        1. This tribute to Albert Pietersma of the University of Toronto is offered by a highly distinguished international panel of scholars.
        2. Born: 9 Feb. in Hiroshima, Japan.\par.
        3. Collected essays on the Old Greek Psalter by linguistic and textual scholars highlighting its significance for biblical research and related disciplines.
        4. 6 See Takamitsu Muraoka, A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint: Chiefly of the Penta- teuch and the Twelve Prophets (Louvain: Peeters, ), s.v..
        5. This tribute to Albert Pietersma of the University of Toronto is offered by a highly distinguished international panel of scholars, including John W. Wevers.

          6. Takamitsu Muraoka

          Japanese Orientalist

          Takamitsu Muraoka (村岡 崇光, Muraoka Takamitsu, born 1938 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese Semiticist.[1] He was Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1991 to 2003 and is most notable for his studies of Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics and the ancient translations of the Bible, notably of the Septuagint.

          Education

          After studying general linguistics and biblical languages under the late Prof. Masao Sekine [ja] at Tokyo University of Education [ja] (now University of Tsukuba), he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, completing his dissertation Emphasis in Biblical Hebrew with the late Prof.

          C. Rabin as supervisor, and obtaining his Ph.D. in 1970.

          Career

          He taught Semitic languages including Modern Hebrew as Lecturer in Manchester University, U.K. (1970–80), as Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Melbourne University (1980–91), Au