Prof. Orly Goldwasser

Head, Egyptology

Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Honorary Professor University of Göttingen

"Best of BAR" award for 2009-2010

Research and teaching interests:

• Definition of the role of linguistic registers in New Kingdom texts
• The classifier system of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and its parallelism to other classification systems in various languages of the world
• The genesis of the alphabet through the Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Semiotics of the Egyptian pictorial scripts
• Socio-Linguistic issues in the grammar of Ramesside Egyptian
• Hieratic and hieroglyphic inscriptions in Canaan
• Canaanite-Egyptian relations during the Late Bronze Age

Teachings in other institutes:

• Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Boston 2005
• Professor of "Collège de France", Paris, 2007
• COLLEGIUM DE LYON c/o ENS Lettres et sciences humaines 2012
• Göttingen University

Functions

• Co-editor of the series - Classification and Categorization in Ancient Egypt, Göttinger Orientforschoungen IV. Reihe Ägypten 38 (Harrassowitz Verlag)
• Vice chair, European COST Action A31 "Stability and Adaptation of Classification Systems in Cross-Cultural Perspective" (scientific committees, conferences planning and organization, various lectures)
• Reviewer, School of Advanced Studies, Princeton
• Representative of Israel in the International Association for Semiotic Studies

Address: Dept. of Ancient Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Faculty of Humanities,
Hebrew University Jerusalem
Mount Scopus, 91905 Jerusalem
Room: 7715
Email: orly.goldwasser@gmail.com

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