Takamitsu muraoka biography of rory

Japanese Orientalist

Takamitsu Muraoka (村岡 崇光, Muraoka Takamitsu, born 1938 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese Semiticist.^[1] He was Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1991 to 2003 and is most notable for his studies of Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics and the ancient translations of the Bible, notably of the Septuagint.

Education

After studying general linguistics and biblical languages under the late Prof.

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Masao Sekine [ja] at Tokyo University of Education [ja] (now University of Tsukuba), he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, completing his dissertation Emphasis in Biblical Hebrew with the late Prof. C. Rabin as supervisor, and obtaining his Ph.D. in 1970.

Career

He taught Semitic languages including Modern Hebrew as Lecturer in Manchester University, U.K.

(1970–80), as Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Melbourne University (1980–91), Au