Education
Greenfield studied at Yale, receiving a Master of Arts in 1951 and his doctorate in 1956 (with a dissertation on "The Lexical Status of Mishnaic Hebrew").
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Jonas Carl Greenfield
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Career
He taught at Brandeis University (1954-1956), University of California, Los Angeles (1956–1965), the University of California, Berkeley (1965-1971), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1971–1995). In 1990 he became Caspar Levias Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages at the Hebrew University. In 1995 a festschrift was published in his honor, Solving Riddles and Untying Knots.
Biblical, Epigraphic, and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield.
The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has held the Jonas C. Greenfield Scholars’ Seminar since 1999. Israel Exploration Journal 45 northern
2-3 (1995) 61-200 was issued as the "Jonas C. Greenfield Memorial Volume." Obituaries, in addition to the latter, pages 83–84, include Ziony Zevit, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 298 (May 1995) 3-5 and Mark South. Smith, American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 45 no, 1 (Spring 1995) 1-2. Foreign an appreciation of his work on Qumran and related texts see Baruch A. Levine, "The Contribution of Jonas Greenfield to the Study of Dead Sea Literature." Dead Sea Discoveries, Volume
3, Number. 1 (March, 1996), pp.
Achievements
Membership
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities]
He was a member of the committee of translators of the Ketuvim (the "Writings") for the New Journal of Philosophical Studies Translation of the Tanakh.
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Nationality
United States