Aaron Koller

Prof. Aaron Koller is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. Previously, he was professor of Near Eastern studies at Yeshiva University, where he chaired the Beren Department of Jewish Studies. His last book was Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought (Cambridge University Press), and his next is Unbinding Isaac: The Akedah in Jewish Thought (forthcoming from JPS/University of Nebraska Press in 2020); he is also the author of numerous studies in Semitic philology. Aaron has 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. He lives in Queens, NY with his wife, Shira Hecht-Koller, and their children.