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Semitic Linguistics / Advisor of Near Eastern Languages Program

Prof. Tania Notarius

Tania Notarius is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hebrew at the University of the Free State and a rated researcher of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF). Her academic focus is centered on Northwest Semitic languages, epigraphy, and historical linguistics. She is engaged in the Near Eastern Languages Program in an advisory capacity.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal & Contact

Nationality - Israeli

Education

1985-1990
MA and BA degrees in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish and French)

Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology

1997-2007
PhD in “The Verbal Tenses in Archaic and Classical Biblical Poetry”

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages

2008-2009
Warburg Postgraduate Fellow

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies

2010-2013
Postgraduate Fellow in the project ‘Materials for a New Dictionary of Mandaic’

University of Haifa, Department of Hebrew Language

2011-2013
Eliezer Ben-Yehudah Postgraduate Fellow

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages

Roles

2022 - now
Associate Professor, Department of Hebrew

University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa)

2015-now
Advisor of the MA Program “Near Eastern Languages”

Polis-The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities

Research Interests

General Linguistics | Semitic Languages | Translation Studies | Biblical Hebrew Language and Philology | Historical linguistics of Biblical Hebrew

Articles / Publications