Benjamin Kantor studied for a B.A. in Classical Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which he completed in 2012. During this time, he also studied various Semitic language, such as Arabic, Akkadian, Aramaic, and Ugaritic. Following this, he went on to graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible with a minor in Arabic in 2017. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the earliest attested reading tradition of Biblical Hebrew reflected in the Greek transcriptions of Hebrew in Origen’s Hexapla. In 2017 he moved to Cambridge, where he was employed by Regius Prof. of Hebrew Geoffrey Khan to work on a new reference grammar of Biblical Hebrew. In 2024 he was appointed as Lecturer in Hebrew and the Jews of the Mediaeval Middle East.
Dr Kantor primarily offers courses related to Biblical Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Aramaic.
Dr Kantor would be happy to supervise students with similar research interests.
Biblical Hebrew; Medieval (and Late Antique) Hebrew Reading/Vocalisation Traditions; Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians; Judaeo-Arabic; Medieval Arabic Bible Translation; Semitic Philology; Greek of Judaea-Palestine; Jewish Translations of the Bible into Greek (e.g., LXX, Aquila)