Takamitsu muraoka biography of christopher

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.

Professor Muraoka is a brilliant scholar of the biblical languages: over more than forty-five years, he has published on Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

Professor Muraoka is a brilliant scholar of the biblical languages: over more than forty-five years, he has published on Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

In this episode, Professor Takamitsu Muraoka, who was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in , narrates his life's story with an eye on how the biblical languages.

Christopher Charles Rowland (born 21 May ) is an English Anglican priest and theologian.

Born in Hiroshima in Studied English philology (BA) and linguistics (MA) at Tokyo Kyoiku University, Japan, and obtained PhD in Hebrew, Hebrew University.

Chris Muraoka, American politician; Hiroto Muraoka (村岡 博人, –) Takamitsu Muraoka (村岡 崇光, born ), Japanese Hebraist; Takuya Muraoka.

Education

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