Jonas C. Greenfield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American academic
Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1926
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 13-Mar-1995
Profession: archaeologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Jonas C. Greenfield
- Jonas Carl Greenfield (October 20, 1926 in New York City – March 13, 1995 in Jerusalem) was a scholar of Semitic languages, who published in the fields of Semitic Epigraphy, Aramaic Studies and Qumran Studies. 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").
- He taught at Brandeis University (1954–56), University of California, Los Angeles (1956–1965), the University of California, Berkeley (1965–71), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1971–1995).
- In 1990 he became Caspar Levias Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages at the Hebrew University. He was a member of the committee of translators of the Ketuvim (the "Writings") for the New JPS Translation of the Tanakh.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.
- In 2000 the American Oriental Society established a prize to honor his memory, the "Jonas C.
- Greenfield Prize For Younger Semitists".
- 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 no.
- 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 S.
- Smith, American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter 45 no.
- 1 (Spring 1995) 1–2.
- For 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, Vol.
- 3, No.
- 1 (Mar.
- 1996), pp.
- 2–9
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