Aaron Demsky is professor of biblical history at

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

. He is an

epigrapher Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

noted for his work on

onomastics Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. An ''orthonym'' is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, w ...

Demsky is the winner of the 2014

Bialik Prize The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel, for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Israel's national poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik Hayim Nahman Biali ...

for his book, ''Literacy in Ancient Israel''.

Books

* ''Pleasant are Their Names: Jewish Names in the Sephardi Diaspora'', University of Maryland Press, 2010 * ''These are the names : studies in Jewish onomastics'', with Joseph A. Reif, Joseph Tabory. Bar-Ilan University Press, 1997. (v. 1), 9652262269 (v. 2) * '' Yediʻat sefer be-Yiśraʼel ba-ʻet ha-ʻatiḳah'', Mosad Byaliḳ, 2012.

References

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