Moshe Goshen-Gottstein
Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (
Biography
Moshe Goshen-Gottstein was born in
.Esther Goshen-Gottstein wrote a book about her husband's recovery from a four-month coma in the wake of heart surgery, "Recalled to Life: The Story of a Coma."
Academic career
From 1950 on, Goshen-Gottstein taught at Hebrew University. He became a professor in 1967. Goshen-Gottstein made important contributions in the areas of Biblical studies, Hebrew linguistics and Semitic linguistics. His numerous articles and books included "Medieval Hebrew syntax and Vocabulary as Influenced by Arabic", "Introduction to the Lexicography of Modern Hebrew" and "The Aleppo Codex" (in which he established the authenticity of this codex). He worked on several dictionaries, among them the "Millon ha-Ivrit ha-Hadashah" ("Dictionary of Modern Hebrew"), the first synchronic dictionary of Hebrew. He was the founder of the Hebrew University Bible Project, which he directed for many years.[1]
Awards
In 1988, Goshen-Gottstein was awarded the Israel Prize in Jewish studies[2]
Journal publications
- "The Aleppo Codex and the Rise of the Massoretic Bible Text". Near Eastern Archaeology. 42 (3). 1979. doi:10.2307/3209386.
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