News of Professor Muraoka's passing has been coming out since yesterday. Jack Sasson has also circulated a memorial by Martin F. J. Baasten on the Agade list.
I never met Professor Muraoka, but his name has been prominent in the field for my entire career. He is well known for his prolific linguistic and philological work on the biblical languages and texts. PaleoJudaica has noted many of his comparatively recent publications over the years, two (here and here) in the last couple of months.
Requiescat in pace.
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