Daniel Sivan
Daniel Sivan (born August 21, 1949 in Casablanca , Morocco ) is a Moroccan-Israeli Semitist and professor emeritus in the Hebrew language department of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev .
Life
Daniel Sivan (Siboni) was born in Casablanca, Morocco . In 1955 he emigrated to Israel with his parents and two brothers via Marseille . The family initially lived in Safed . His youngest brother was born there.
In August 1967, Sivan began his military service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). After completing his military service, he moved to Ramat Gan .
In 1970 he began studying at Tel Aviv University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies and Hebrew . Sivan continued his studies and earned a Master of Arts in Hebrew and Semitic languages . Sivan's doctoral thesis "Grammar of Northwestern Semitic Vocabulary in Akkadian Texts from the Land of Israel and Syria in the Middle Bronze Age" was written under the direction of Gideon Goldenberg and Anson Frank Rainey and submitted in 1978.
Sivan won the Mifal HaPayis Award, the Nissim Gaon Award, and an award from the Recanati Foundation during his studies .
In October 1979 he was appointed lecturer at the Institute for Hebrew Language of Ben Gurion University in the Negev and in 1997 he was appointed full professor.
From 1986 to 1990 Sivan was visiting professor at Harvard University and Brandeis University .
From 2000 to 2004 he was Head of the Department of Hebrew Language and during the tenure of Dean Jimmy Weinblatt he was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences . From 1998 to 2013, Sivan was the chairman of Korim Publishing at Ben Gurion University and more than 150 titles were published during his tenure. From 2006 to 2010, Sivan was a member of the Ben Gurion University's top nomination committee.
Contribution to the field of lexicography
In collaboration with Maya Fruchtman, Sivan published the “Ariel Dictionary” and, together with Haim Dihi, wrote the Aramaic-Hebrew Ariel dictionary. Both dictionaries were published by Korim Verlag.
Research fields
- Ancient Hebrew (Biblical Hebrew and Protobiblical Hebrew)
- Northwestern Semitic languages ( Canaanites in Al-Amarna letters, Ugaritic language , Phoenician and Punic , Hebrew inscriptions from the biblical age, Ammonite inscriptions )
- Jewish grammarians of the Middle Ages (Hayyuj, Ibn Janah, etc.)
Private
Daniel Sivan is married for the second time and has three children from a previous marriage.
Publications
- Grammatical Analysis and Glossary of the Northwest Semitic Vocables in Akkadian Texts of the 15th – 13th CBC from Canaan and Syria (= Old Orient and Old Testament 214). Butzon and Bercker, Kevelaer 1984. ISBN 3-7666-9374-3
- with Zipora Cochavi-Rainey: West-Semitic Vocabulary in Egyptian Script of the 14th to the 10th Centuries BCE (= Beer Sheva 6). Beer Sheva 1992.
- A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language (= Handbuch der Orientalistik I, 28). Brill, Leiden u. a. 1997. ISBN 90-04-10614-6
- with Ali Wated: שלושת חיבורי הדקדוק של ר׳ יהודה חיוג׳ במקורם הערבי ובתרגום לעברית חדשה. מהדורה ביקורתית [Three Treatises on Hebrew Grammar by R. Judah Ḥayyuj. A New Critical Edition of the Arabic Text with a Modern Hebrew Translation]. Beer Sheva 2011. ISBN 978-965-536-096-7
Individual evidence
- ^ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Aword with prof Sican Daniel
- ^ Google scholar Daniel Sivan on Google scholar
- ↑ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev staff פרופ 'דניאל סיון Daniel Sivan
- ↑ Harvard Negotiation Program dthe Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and Harvard Hillel
- ↑ the National Library of Israel מילון אריאל המקיף
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sivan, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan-Israeli Semitist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Casablanca , Morocco |