Prof. Simcha Kogut is Emeritus Professor of Bible and Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Hebrew Language. Kogut was formerly the head of the Bible department as well as the Rothberg School’s Hebrew Language program. Kogut is the co-editor of Studies on Hebrew and Other Semitic Languages Presented to Professor Chaim Rabin on the Occasion of his Seventy-Fifth Birthday (Academon, 5751) and An Academic Anthology on Jewish Studies and Education in Memory of Dr. Avraham Zalkin (Lifschitz College, 2020). He is the author of Content Clauses - Their Nature and Construction (Academon 1984); Correlations Between Biblical Accentuation and Traditional Jewish Exegesis (Magnes 1994), Syntax and Exegesis Studies in Biblical Syntax as Reflected in Traditional Jewish Exegesis (Magnes, 2002). The latter two each won the Abraham Zechariah Shkop Prize.
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Rabbinic quotations of the Bible differ in some instances from the Masoretic Text. In some cases, the rabbis were aware it was a variant; other times they were not.
Rabbinic quotations of the Bible differ in some instances from the Masoretic Text. In some cases, the rabbis were aware it was a variant; other times they were not.