Moshe Goshen-Gottstein

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Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (1925, Berlin–1991, Jerusalem) was professor of Semitic linguistics and biblical philology at the Hebrew University and director of the lexicographical institute and Biblical research institute of Bar-Ilan University.

Escaping the Nazis to Palestine in 1939, he studied at the Hebrew University and taught there from 1950 on, becoming a professor in 1967. In 1988 he was awarded the Israel Prize in Jewish studies.

He made many 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 started, and for many years directed, the Hebrew University Bible Project.

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• Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Goshen-Gottstein, Moshe"