Jonas C. Greenfield
Jonas Carl Greenfield | |
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| Born | October 20, 1926 New York City |
| Died | March 13, 1995 (aged 68) Jerusalem |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | scholar of Semitic languages |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University |
| Thesis | The Lexical Status of Mishnaic Hebrew (1956) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Ancient linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Semitic languages |
| Institutions | Brandeis University University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Berkeley Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Jonas Carl Greenfield (October 20, 1926 in New York City – March 13, 1995 in Jerusalem) was an American scholar of Semitic languages, who published in the fields of Semitic Epigraphy, Aramaic Studies and Qumran Studies, and a distinguished member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[1]
Greenfield studied at Yale, receiving a Master of Arts in 1951 and his doctorate in 1956 (with a dissertation on "The Lexical Status of Mishnaic Hebrew"). He taught at Brandeis University (1954–56), University of California, Los Angeles (1956–1965), the University of California, Berkeley (1965–71), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1971–1995). In 1990 he became Caspar Levias Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages at the Hebrew University.
He was a member of the committee of translators of the
In 1995 a festschrift was published in his honor, Solving Riddles and Untying Knots. Biblical, Epigraphic, and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield.[3] In 2000 the American Oriental Society established a prize to honor his memory, the "Jonas C. Greenfield Prize For Younger Semitists".[4] The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has held the Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars’ Seminar since 1999. Israel Exploration Journal 45 no. 2–3 (1995) 61–200 was issued as the "Jonas C. Greenfield Memorial Volume." Obituaries, in addition to the latter, pages 83–84, include Ziony Zevit, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 298 (May 1995) 3–5 and Mark S. Smith, American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 45 no. 1 (Spring 1995) 1–2. For an appreciation of his work on Qumran and related texts see Baruch A. Levine, "The Contribution of Jonas Greenfield to the Study of Dead Sea Literature." Dead Sea Discoveries, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Mar. 1996), pp. 2–9
Selected works
Books
- Greenfield, Jonas C.; OCLC 23032.
- ———; ISBN 978-0-827-60172-7.
- ———, ed. (1982). Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Pt.1. Vol.5. Texts 1, Inscriptions of ancient Iran. The Aramaic versions of the Achaemenian inscriptions, etc. The Bisitun inscription of Darius the Great: Aramaic version. London: Lund Humphries. OCLC 830850725.
- ———; OCLC 21262733.
- ———; OCLC 56066393.
Shorter writings
- ——— (2001). OCLC 46505115. in 2 vols
- Chapters and articles
- ——— (1992). "The Texts from Naḥal Ṣe'elim (Wadi Seiyal)". In Barerra, J. Trebolle; Montaner, L. Vegas (eds.). The Madrid Qumran Congress: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Madrid 18–21 March 1991. Vol. 2. Madrid; Leiden: Editorial Complutense; Brill.
- ——— (1995). "The Wisdom of Ahiqar". In ISBN 0-521-42013-X.
Festschrift
- OCLC 32392922.
Footnotes
- ^ About Greenfield including an image of his portrait on the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities website
- ^ The New JPS Translation of the Tanakh, (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society 1985), p.xxvi.
- ^ Solving Riddles and Untying Knots. Biblical, Epigraphic, and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield, ed. Z. Zevit, S. Gitin, and M. Sokoloff (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbraun's, 1995).
- ^ "Jonas C. Greenfield Prize For Younger Semitists". Archived from the original on 2015-03-19. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
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