Dr Ian Young

PhD (Sydney), BA (Sydney)
Senior Lecturer


Ian Young has been teaching Classical Hebrew, Aramaic and Biblical Studies in the department since 1989.

• language of the Hebrew Bible, especially linguistic dating of biblical books;
• textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible;
• canonization of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

• Linguistic Dating of Biblical Books: An Introduction to Approaches and Problems.
• A Textual and Linguistic Commentary on the Book of Daniel.

• 'Diversity in Pre-Exilic Hebrew', Forschungen zum Alten Testament 5, JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen, 1993.
• (ed.), 'Biblical Hebrew: Chronology and Typology.' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement, 369, T & T Clark, London, 2003.
• 'Israelite Literacy: Interpreting the Evidence Parts I-II,' Vetus Testamentum, 46, 1998, pp.239-253; 408-422.
• 'The Stabilization of the Biblical Text in the Light of Qumran and Masada: A Challenge for Conventional Qumran Chronology?' Dead Sea Discoveries 9, 2002, p.364-390.

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Teaching

• Hebrew Bible and related texts (e.g. Dead Sea Scrolls, inscriptions);
• Aramaic;
• Other Northwest Semitic languages (e.g. Phoenician);
• Biblical Studies.

Supervision

• Language and Text of the Hebrew Bible.

• In 2007 I presented papers at the National Association of Professors of Hebrew conference in Sydney, the Society for Old Testament Study conference in Sheffield, and at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Vienna.
• In 2004 I presented papers at the Gilgamesh conference at the University of Sydney and at the Society of Biblical Literature conference in San Antonio, Texas, USA.