Yehiel Tzeitkin, PhD: Senior Associate Researcher for Hebrew Manuscripts and Paleography
The MIKRA Research Laboratory is pleased to announce the appointment of Yehiel Tzeitkin, PhD as our new Senior Associate Researcher for Hebrew Manuscripts and Paleography. He is a specialist in the authentication of Hebrew manuscripts and inscriptions, as well as in Hebrew bibliography, paleography, and the history of Hebrew printing.
ABOUT YEHIEL
During the course of his academic training, Yehiel distinguished himself by winning numerous awards, foundation prizes, and scholarships culminating with the "President's Scholarship" for outstanding doctoral student at Bar-llan University in 2012. Upon completing his PhD, Dr. Tzeitkin has continued to have a prolific academic career lecturing and publishing numerous Hebrew language articles on a variety of subjects but especially on the Hebrew Bible and Masorah of medieval manuscripts.
Outside of academia, Yehiel’s professional life has been equally focused on the Hebrew Scriptures. He has extensive experience working as a certified scribe (sofer STaM) and is an expert in the attribution of Torah Scrolls by their calligraphy and writing features. He has used this expertise extensively as an expert consultant for private collections, synagogues, and auction houses in the attribution of Hebrew books and manuscripts, including scrolls of the Torah and Prophets. Here are a few highlights:
2013-Present. Independent Consultant in attribution of Hebrew manuscripts.
2018-Present. Research Associate at the Academy of Hebrew Language, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
2013-Present. Lecturer; Bible Department, Orot Institute, Rehovot, Israel.
2011-2017. Editor and Research associate in Ha-Keter Institute at Bar-Ilan University; for this project, Yehiel worked on a new academic edition of the Tanakh, Masora and commentaries based on the Aleppo Codex.
2010-2014. Lecturer; Bible Department at Bar-Ilan University.
Yehiel’s varied academic and professional experience gives him both academic precision as well as artistic and experiential awareness in the complicated field of dating and attribution of Hebrew manuscripts. Added to this skill set is native fluency in both Hebrew and Russian. We look forward to the contributions that Dr. Zeitkin will make to the dating and localizing work of our manuscript projects.