Prof Aaron Koller
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About
Aaron Koller is a Bye-Fellow at Gonville & Caius and an associated researcher at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He is professor of Near Eastern Studies at Yeshiva University, where he studies Semitic languages. He is the author of Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought (JPS/University of Nebraska Press, 2020) and Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2014), among other books, and the editor of five more. Aaron has previously served as a visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and held research fellowships at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research and the Hartman Institute.
Research
Historical linguistics; Semitics; writing systems; Middle East