Wednesday, July 27, 2011

More FBAs: Nicholas de Lange and Robert Gordon

MORE FELLOWS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY: This just in from Viv Rowett on the SOTS list:
PS: Thanks to the several members who have let me know that TWO MORE of our number have also been elected Fellow of the British Academy; here is information sent to me by Janet Tollington:

Professor Nicholas de Lange, Fellow of Wolfson College, has been Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies since 2001. He is the principal investigator on both the projects: ‘Medieval Hebrew inscriptions from the Byzantine Empire’ and ‘Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire’. He is based in the Faculty of Divinity and Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies.

Professor Robert Gordon is the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and a Professorial Fellow of St. Catharine’s College. He has worked extensively on both Testaments, and has a special interest in the ancient translations of the Old Testament. He has published a number of books and has edited/co-edited several other volumes. He published a selection of his articles in 2006 under the title Hebrew Bible and Ancient Versions. He is a member of the editorial board of Vetus Testamentum, the journal of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, and was its Book List editor from 1997 to 2010.

Congratulations to all!
Indeed.

Background here.