Professor Noam Mizrahi

Noam Mizrahi’s studies explore aspects of Hebrew philology, prophetic literature, and Second Temple poetry and poetics. He wrote his dissertation under Avi Hurvitz at the Hebrew University (2004–8). After holding post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University under John Huehnergard (2008/9) and at Georg-August-University Göttingen under Reinhard G. Kratz (2010–12), he held a position at Tel Aviv University (2012–19) before moving to the Hebrew University (since 2020). In between, he was also a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge (2019/20). He chaired the Bible departments at both TAU and HUJI; at the latter, he has also been Director of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (since 2021). He further serves as Co-editor of Mikra le-Yisrael (‘Bible for Israel’), a series of scholarly commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, and of Meghillot (‘Scrolls’), a Hebrew journal for the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple literature.