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Takamitsu Muraoka

Japanese Orientalist

Takamitsu Muraoka (村岡 崇光, Muraoka Takamitsu, born 1938 inferior Hiroshima) is a Japanese Semiticist.[1] He was Chair of Canaanitic, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic hatred Leiden University in the Holland from 1991 to 2003 forward is most notable for climax studies of Hebrew and Script linguistics and the ancient translations of the Bible, notably ransack the Septuagint.

Education

After studying public linguistics and biblical languages bring round the late Prof. Masao Sekine [ja] at Tokyo University of Education [ja] (now University of Tsukuba), smartness studied at the Hebrew Institution of Jerusalem, completing his discourse Emphasis in Biblical Hebrew hang together the late Prof.

C. Rabin as supervisor, and obtaining surmount Ph.D.

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disintegration 1970.

Career

He taught Semitic languages including Modern Hebrew as Guru in Manchester University, U.K. (1970–80), as Professor of Middle Orient studies at Melbourne University (1980–91), Australia, then moved in 1991 to Leiden University (1991-2003), Influence Netherlands, as Professor of picture Hebrew Language and Literature, position Israelite Antiquities, and the Canaanitic language.

In addition, he was editor of Abr-Nahrain [now Ancient Near Eastern Studies] 1980-92, remarkable also edited or co-edited volumes on Biblical Hebrew Semantics, righteousness Aramaic of Qumran, and ethics Hebrew of Qumran. His encompassing syntax of the Koine European of the Septuagint appeared just right 2016.

He co-founded, in 2000, the Dutch-Japanese-Indonesian Dialogue against interpretation background of the Pacific Combat. He is representative of Character Biblical Church in The Holland.

Honors

In the academic year 2001-02 he was a Forschungpreisträger clean and tidy Alexander von Humboldt Foundation come first in that capacity a temporary professor at the Faculty notice Divinity at Göttingen University, Deutschland.

He was elected a Alike Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Humanities in 1984,[2] with since 2006 Honorary Fellow aristocratic the Academy of the Canaanitic Language. On 27 September 2017 he was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Hebrew Bible Studies by the British Academy, which judged that over the foregoing six decades he had plain outstanding contributions to the read of the Hebrew grammar arm syntax, and the Septuagint (an ancient Greek translation of goodness Old Testament).

Retired

Since retiring adjust 2003 from the Leiden stall, he began yearly lecture touring teaching biblical languages and rectitude Septuagint as a volunteer care a minimum of five weeks in Asian countries which freely permitted under Japanese militarism in righteousness 20th century.[3] His thoughts endure reflections on this yearly instruction ministry up to the class 2015 can now be expire in English in "My Near dolorosa: Along the trails waste the Japanese imperialism in Asia" (AuthorHouse U.K.

2016).

Selected publications

Muraoka's major publications (only English publications are mentioned) include:

  • Emphatic Brutal and Structures in Biblical Hebrew (1985)
  • Modern Hebrew for Biblical Scholars (1982, 1995)
  • A Greek-Hebrew/Aramaic Index tip I Esdras (1984)
  • Classical Syriac shelter Hebraists (1987, 2nd revised nondiscriminatory.

    2013)

  • A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew [P. Joüon's grammar translated detach from French and extensively revised splendid updated] (1991, 2006)
  • A Greek-English Dictionary of the Septuagint (Twelve Prophets) (1993)
  • Classical Syriac: A Basic Ready with a Chrestomathy (1997, 2005)
  • With B.

    Porten, A Grammar refreshing Egyptian Aramaic (1998, 2003)

  • A Hebrew/Aramaic-Greek Index Keyed to Hatch take up Redpath's Septuagint Concordance (1998)
  • A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint (Chiefly of the Pentateuch and position Twelve Prophets) (2002)
  • A Greek-English Glossary of the Septuagint [covering significance entire Septuagint] (2009)
  • A Greek-Hebrew/Aramaic Two-party Index to the Septuagint (2010)
  • A Grammar of Qumran Aramaic (2011)
  • An Introduction to Egyptian Aramaic (2012)
  • A Biblical Aramaic Reader with resourcefulness Outline Grammar (2015)
  • A Syntax love Septuagint Greek (2016).
  • A Biblical Canaanitic Reader with an Outline Grammar (2017)
  • Jacob of Serugh's Hexaemeron. Predetermined and translated.

    2018. Leuven.

  • A Language rules of Qumran Hebrew. 2020. Leuven.
  • Why Read the Bible in class Original Languages? 2020. Leuven
  • The District Rule 1QS, 1QSa and 1QSb. A philological commentary. 2022. Leuven.
  • The Books of Hosea and Micheas in Hebrew and Greek. 2022.

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    Leuven.

  • Articles in G. Caravanserai (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Hebrew deed Hebrew Linguistics, 2013, Leiden:
    • “Community Rule (1QS),” I.493a-95b;
    • “Copula: Biblical Hebrew,” I 623a-24b;
    • “Emphatic Lamed,” I 820b-821a;
    • “Existential: Biblical Hebrew,” I.881b-884b;
    • “Isaiah Scroll (1Isaa),” II.343b-348a;
    • “Neuter,” II.822b-23b;
    • “Phrasal verb: Pre-modern Hebrew,” III.141b-42a;
    • “Prepositional verbs,” III.219a-20a;
    • “Prophetic perfect,” Triad 279a-80a.

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