Yairah Amit
Israeli biblical scholar
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| Intro | Israeli biblical scholar | ||||||
| Places | Israel | ||||||
| is | Educator Professor Religious scholar Biblical scholar | ||||||
| Work field | Academia Religion | ||||||
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| Birth | 19 October 1941, Tel Aviv, Israel | ||||||
| Age | 82 years | ||||||
| Star sign | Libra | ||||||
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Yairah Amit (born 19 October 1941 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli biblical scholar. Amit studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before doing a PhD at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Meir Sternberg. She is currently Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University. In 2012 a Festschrift was published in her honor. Words, Ideas, Worlds: Biblical Essays in Honour of Yairah Amit (ISBN 1-90753-450-4) included contributions from Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, and Yael Feldman.