Matthew Morgenstern

Matthew Morgenstern , also Moshe Morgenstern ( Hebrew משה מורגנשטרן; * 1968 in London , Great Britain ), is an Israeli linguist .

Matthew Morgenstern

Life

Matthew Morgenstern was born in London in 1968 and received his first university degree in 1990 , a Bachelor of Arts in Political and Social Science from Cambridge University . In 1992 he received his Master of Arts in " Aramaic Bible Translations ". In the same year he immigrated to Israel.

There he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where he initially obtained another Master of Arts in 1996. The work submitted for this purpose was based on the language of the Genesis Apocryphon and was based on Morgenstern's collaboration in a research group on the Dead Sea Scrolls .

Morgenstern remained first at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he with the work in 2002 The Aramaic Language in the Responsa of the Babylonian Geonim doctorate .

From 2002 to 2013 he researched and taught at the University of Haifa . 2011–2012 he spent a sabbatical as a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin . Today he is employed as a full professor in the Faculty of Hebrew Culture at Tel Aviv University .

Act

Matthew Morgenstern deals with various topics in Semitic studies , but above all with Aramaic studies . Here, in turn, his focus is on the East-American dialects, especially the Jewish-Babylonian Aramaic and the classical Mandaean . He is engaged in research into Mandaean manuscripts as well as photography , digitization , transcription and translation of magic bowls and amulets .

In 2013, Matthew Morgenstern co-founded the Society for Mandaean Studies, of which he is an elected board member.

Book publication

Studies in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Based upon Early Manuscript Sources. Harvard Semitic Studies, 2011. ISBN 978-1-575-06938-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Morning star, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Morgenstern, Moshe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	London