Benjamin Hary received a B.A. in Arabic and Hebrew from Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1976), and and M.A. (1979) and Ph.D. (1987) in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.  He has been teaching at Emory since 1988.  Dr. Hary’s teaching and research interests include Hebrew and Arabic language pedagogy, Judeo-Arabic,language and linguistics, the history of Jewish languages, Arabic linguistics and dialectology, corpus linguistics, and general linguistics.   He has received a number of teaching awards, including the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998. His major publications include Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic: With an Edition, Translation, and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll (Brill, 1992) and the edited volume, with J. Hayes and F. Astren, Judaism and Islam—Boundaries, Communication, and Interaction:  Essays in Honor of William M. Brinner (Brill, 2000), as well as many articles on Judeo-Arabic and Arabic linguistics.  Current projects include a major study of Judeo-Arabic translations of Hebrew sacred texts (sharh), a wide-ranging examination of Jewish languages as a category, and COSIH, the Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew.

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