Dr Yael Avrahami

PhD, BA, MA
Lecturer in Biblical Studies
Room 623, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

+61 2 9351 3511

I am an Israel-born biblical scholar who came to Sydney two years ago. My PhD dissertation is currently under examination… updates to come. In the past, I worked both at the University of Haifa and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as research and teaching assistant in the fields of Biblical Studies and of Jewish Thought. In particular, I worked with Professors Y. Maori, M. Kelner and M. Weinfeld. In recent years I have also worked as an educator and a tour guide in various educational programs in Israel. This experience allowed me to gain personal knowledge and experience of biblical lands and their archaeology.

• Semantics of biblical Hebrew
• Social scientific methods in the study of the Hebrew Bible
• Aspects of biblical worldview

• A monograph research on shame and honour in the Hebrew Bible
• Revision of PhD Dissertation for publication. The topic is the semantics and perception of the senses in the Hebrew Bible.

Articles

• "Name Giving to the Newborn in the Hebrew Bible", in: A. Demsky (ed.), These Are the Names V, Ramat-Gan (in Press)

• Biblical studies
• Classical Hebrew

• 'God’s Honor, A Human Perspective' at Between Man and his God; Cult and Religion in the Ancient Near East, The Israeli Association for Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv, February 2, 2004.
• 'Name Giving to the Newborn in the Hebrew Bible' at The Seventh International Conference on Jewish Names, the Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July 2005
• 'The Meaning of bosh in Psalms and its Implication on the Understanding of Shame in the Hebrew Bible' at at Society of Biblical Literature, International Meeting, Auckland, July 2008
• 'Identifying a Unifying Concept in the Hebrew Bible – the Centrality of Sight as a Study Case' at Society of Biblical Literature, International Meeting, Auckland, July 2008