Dr Aaron Hornkohl
- Associate Professor in Hebrew
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Director of Studies and Undergraduate Tutor, Girton College
- Director of Studies (External), Homerton College
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Born and raised in Southern California, USA, Aaron Hornkohl has lived in Italy, Israel, and the UK.
He received a BA in Social Science from Biola University (1996), did graduate studies in Applied Linguistics at SIL-UND (1995–1996), and completed his MA in Bible and Its World (2005) and PhD in Hebrew and Jewish Languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2012).
He and his family moved to Cambridge in 2012, when he began working in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. His main roles have been University Language Teaching Officer in Hebrew (2014–2023) and University Associate Professor in Hebrew (2023–Present).
Dr Hornkohl teaches courses on both ancient and modern Hebrew.
His research focuses primarily on ancient Hebrew philology and linguistics.
His 2023 monograph The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew won the 2024 BIAJS Book Prize.
Research
- ancient Hebrew philology and linguistics
- historical linguistics
- Hebrew diachrony
- linguistic typology
- linguistic periodisation
- verbal semantics
- pragmatics
- word order
- the Tiberian/Masoretic biblical tradition
- Samaritan Hebrew
- Qumran/Judaean Desert Hebrew
- Iron Age II epigraphic Hebrew
- Rabbinic Hebrew
- exegesis
Teaching and supervision
MES.5 Beginning Hebrew
MES.6 Contributing Lectures on Nascent Christianity
MES.13 Intermediate Hebrew
MES.33 Advanced Hebrew/Biblical Hebrew in Historical Perspective