Michael Sokoloff

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Michael Sokoloff ( Hebrew מיכאל סוקולוף; Russian Михаил Соколо́фф ) is an Israeli Semitist .

Life

Michael Sokoloff taught until his retirement as a professor for Hebrew and Semitic languages ​​at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv .

His research area is the Aramaic languages , for which he has presented numerous publications, text editions and lexicons. In 2009 he published a revised and supplemented version of Carl Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum from 1928.

When he decided to edit the Lexicon Syriacum , he found that of the 800 sources referenced there, only 200 to 300 could be found in Israel. He therefore traveled to the Catholic University of America in Washington DC as a visiting scholar for research purposes , where the required texts were available. His work was supported by Israel's Basic Research Foundation .

Michael Sokoloff assumes that parts of the Gospels were originally written in Aramaic, although only Greek scriptures have survived.

Publications (selection)

  • The Targum to Job from Qumran Cave XI. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 1974.
  • The Geniza Fragments of Bereshit Rabba. Edited on the Basis of Twelve Manuscripts and Palimpsests with an Introduction and Notes (= Publications of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Section of Humantites ). Ben-Zvi Printing, Jerusalem 1982.
  • (Ed.): Arameans, Aramaic, and the Aramaic literary tradition. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 1983, ISBN 965-226-038-X .
  • A dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine period (= Dictionaries of Talmud, Midrash and Targum Vol. 2). Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 1990, 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 965-226-101-7 .
  • with Christa Müller-Kessler: The Christian Palestinian Aramaic. New Testament Version from the Early Period Gospels. Styx Publications, Groningen 1998, ISBN 9056930184 .
  • with Stephen A. Kaufman: A key-word-in-context concordance to Targum Neofiti. A guide to the complete Palestinian Aramaic text of the Torah . 1993, ISBN 0-8018-4707-9 .
  • A dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods (= Dictionaries of Talmud, Midrash and Targum Vol. 3). Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 2002, ISBN 0-8018-7233-2 ; ISBN 965-226-260-9 .
  • A Dictionary of Judean Aramaic . Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 2003, ISBN 965-226-261-7 .
  • A Syriac Lexicon. A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum . Eisenbrauns & Gorgias Press / Winona Lake, Indiana & Piscataway, New Jersey 2009, ISBN 978-1-57506-180-1 & ISBN 978-1-60724-620-6 .
  • A dictionary of Christian Palestinian Aramaic (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 234). Peeters, Leuven 2014, ISBN 978-90-429-3183-1 .
  • Texts of various contents in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 235). Peeters, Leuven 2014, ISBN 978-90-429-3184-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Syriac Lexicon By Michael Sokoloff on gorgiaspress.com.
  2. ^ Richard Wilkinson: Why Scholars Come to CUA: Four Foreign Professors Seek World-Class Resources. In: Inside CUA : "His work on the dictionary is funded by a three-year grant from Israel's Basic Research Foundation, an entity that Sokoloff calls the National Endowment for the Humanities of Israel ."
  3. ↑ Michael Sokoloff on zoominfo.com: “Michael Sokoloff, a professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages ​​at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, said it is believed that parts of the Gospels were originally written in Aramaic, but only Greek writings have been found . ”
personal data
SURNAME Sokoloff, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соколо́фф, Михаил (Russian); מיכאל סוקולוף (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli Semitist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century