Abraham Tal receives Gesenius Fellowship

CONGRATULATIONS TO ABRAHAM TAL. Jack Sasson reports on the Agade list:

From Stefan Schorch (schorch_AT@gmx.de):
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Professor Abraham Tal is the first recipient of the newly established Gesenius-fellowship at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.

Tal is professor emeritus of Tel Aviv University, former Vice President of the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem, and Editor-in-Chief of The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language. He has published widely in the field of Hebrew and Aramaic
linguistics. Among his numerous publications are the pioneering critical edition of "The Samaritan Targum of the Pentateuch" (1980-83); "A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic" (2000). For more details, see his homepage at: http://humanities.tau.ac.il/segel/abraham/

Tal is the first "Wilhelm-Gesenius-Gastwissenschaftler" at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. The Gesenius fellowship and the Gesenius junior-fellowship were established by the Institute of Biblical studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in commemoration of Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842), the founder of modern Hebrew studies, who was a professor at this institute throughout his entire academic career, 1810-1842.

Go here for the homepage of the "Gesenius fellowship": http://www.theologie.uni-halle.de/at/gesenius/.

Earlier PaleoJudaica posts involving Professor Tal are here, here, and here.