Jacob Hoftijzer (11.01.1926—08.11.2011) was a scholar of

Semitic languages The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, Chad, and in large immigra ...

. He was Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, the Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic at

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until his retirement in 1991. That year, a ''

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'' was published in his honour, ''Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Syntax: Presented to Professor J. Hoftijzer on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday'', which included contributions from Jan P. Fokkelman and

Takamitsu Muraoka is a Japanese Oriental studies, Orientalist. He was Chair of Hebrew language, Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1991 till 2003 and is most notable for his studies of Hebrew and Aramaic language ...

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