Yairah Amit

Yairah Amit
יַעֲרָה עָמִית
Born	(1941-10-19) 19 October 1941 (age 83) Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Nationality	Israeli
Occupation(s)	Biblical Scholar, Professor
Academic background
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University
Academic work
Institutions	Tel Aviv University

Yairah Amit (born 19 October 1941 in Tel Aviv^[1]) is an Israeli biblical scholar.^[2][3] Amit studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before doing a PhD at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Meir Sternberg. She is currently Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University.^[4] In 2012 a Festschrift was published in her honor.^[5] Words, Ideas, Worlds: Biblical Essays in Honour of Yairah Amit (ISBN 1-90753-450-4) included contributions from Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, and Yael Feldman.^[6][7]

Public activity

Yaira Amit's academic pursuits were also combined with public activities related to the Bible and its teachings. In this framework, she served on various committees of the Ministry of Education and Culture, such as the Higher Professional Committee for Bible Teaching, in which she was a member and then chairman, the Matriculation Examination Questionnaire Committee, the Teaching Committee, etc. She was a partner in establishing the bulletin for Bible teachers in public schools: "On the agenda", she served as a member of the steering team of the Department of the Bible and Israel Sources of the President's House , serves as a member of various academic councils, and more, and is also one of the members of the public board of the National Library.

Between 1998-2003 she served as the chairman of the program committee and was responsible for the production of the new curriculum in the Bible for the state education system from Kindergarten to 12th grade, known as the "Curriculum 5633" and serves the system to this day (2008). Her lectures for Bible teachers and the general public present the relevance of biblical literature as a national and universal literature, which despite its antiquity is not a miracle.

Selected works

• The book of Judges : the art of editing, 1992
• Sefer Shofṭim : omanut ha-ʻarikhah, 1992
• Hidden polemics in biblical narrative, 1996
• History and ideology : an introduction to historiography in the Hebrew Bible, 1997
• Shofṭim : ʻim mavo u-ferush, 1999
• Reading biblical narratives : literary criticism and the Hebrew Bible, 2000
• Galui ṿe-nistar ba-Miḳra : pulmusim geluyim, ʻaḳifim uṿe-iḳar semuyim, 2003
• Essays on ancient Israel in its Near Eastern context : a tribute to Nadav Naʼaman, 2006
• In praise of editing in the Hebrew Bible : collected essays in retrospect, 2012

References

1. "Short Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 5 August 2013.
2. "מה הם לומדים שם בתנ"ך וכיצד ירד המקצוע מגדולתו". Haaretz הארץ (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 January 2021.
3. "החלק והשלם בהוראת המקרא". mikranet.cet.ac.il. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
4. "קתרסיס: מגזין כתבי עת לביקורת במדעי הרוח והחברה - הוספת בעלי מקצוע". www.katharsis.co.il. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
5. ""הוא שאול לה'/יאירה אמית". www.orianit.edu-negev.gov.il (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 10 January 2005. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
6. "יאירה אמית". lib.cet.ac.il. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
7. "שופטים - מאת יאירה אמית". archive.is (in Hebrew). 7 January 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2021.