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Takamitsu Muraoka

Japanese Hebraist

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born: 1938
died: 2026
age at death: 88
known for: linguist, Hebraist, writer

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Takamitsu Muraoka was a Japanese Semitist. 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 the Bible, notably of the Septuagint.

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