Jacob Hoftijzer () was a scholar of

Semitic languages The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya language, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew language, Hebrew, Maltese language, Maltese, Modern South Arabian language ...

. He was Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, the Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic at

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until his retirement in 1991. That year, a ''

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'' was published in his honour, ''Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Syntax: Presented to Professor J. Hoftijzer on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday'', which included contributions from

Jan P. Fokkelman Jan Pieter Fokkelman (born 23 March 1940) is a Dutch biblical scholar renowned for his literary and structural analyses of the Hebrew Bible. His extensive work, particularly on the books of Genesis and Samuel, has significantly influenced modern ...

and

Takamitsu Muraoka is a Japanese Semiticist. He was Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1991 to 2003 and is most notable for his studies of Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics and the ancient translations of ...

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