Jonathan Rosenbaum (scholar)

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Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American paleographer and college administrator.

Rosenbaum was born in Michigan and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He earned rabbinical ordination and an M.A. at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

Rosenbaum holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He is an espert on the paleography and epigraphy of ancient Semitic languages. His doctoral dissertation was on “A Typology of Aramaic Lapidary Scripts from the Seventh to the Fourth Century BCE.” From 1995 to 1998, Rosenbaum was deputy director of the Ein Gedi Archaeological Expedition in Israel, an excavation co-sponsored by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Hartford, where Rosenbaum was teaching at that time. Rosenbaum and chairs “Paleographical Studies in the Ancient Near East,” a scholarly section jointly sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature. ^[1]

Rosenbaum is President of Gratz College. ^[2][3]

Rosenbaum holds honorary doctorates from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

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• Three Unpublished Ostraca from Gezer, with Joe D. Seger , Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 264 (Nov., 1986), pp. 51-60

• Hezekiah's Reform and the Deuteronomistic Tradition, The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 72, No. 1/2 (Jan. - Apr., 1979), pp. 23-43

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