A world-class teacher and scholar who has helped to shape modern Hebrew, Moshe Bar-Asher will be Hebrew College’s Shoolman Visiting Professor next spring 2007.

Bar-Asher is President of Israel’s Academy of the Hebrew Language, the official keeper of Hebrew, which prescribes standards for modern Hebrew grammar, orthography, transliteration and punctuation.

An expert in mishnaic Hebrew, Aramaic, North African traditions, literature, linguistics, commentaries and customs, Bar-Asher will teach "The History of the Hebrew Language." The course spans a history of 3,000 years and explores a variety of texts and Hebrew language forms or advanced Hebrew speakers.

Bar-Asher formerly taught at Hebrew College in the 1980s. He is Professor of Hebrew Language at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, holds the Chaim Nachman Bialik Chair in Research of the Hebrew Language and heads the Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Center for the Study of the History of Hebrew Language. He received the Israel Prize for Hebrew Language and Jewish Languages in 1993, the most prestigious language prize awarded by the State of Israel.



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