Orion Center Research Scholarships 2012/13

1. Topic of research and a short description.
2. A detailed description of the proposed research, outlining the method, goals and potential publications connected with the project.
3. Approximately 15 pages from your doctoral dissertation or another scholarly publication that represents your research.
4. Curriculum vitae.
5. Two references from scholars familiar with your work, along with contact information for each referee.
6. Form with personal details. Hebrew /English

Graduate Internship in Dead Sea Scrolls 2012/2013

1. A copy of the thesis and an abstract in English and Hebrew.
2. Advisor's recommendation and a reference from another instructor.
3. Form with personal details in Hebrew (English Form)

Previous Recipients

2008/9
• Christian Stadel, Department of Semitic Languages, Heidelberg University, Germany: "Hebraisms in the Aramic Texts from Qumran"


2007/8
• Roi Porat, Department of Archaeology , Hebrew University: "Bar Kokhba Refuge Caves in the Area between Ein Gedi and Qumran, in Light of the Renewed Research Project in the Judean Desert"


2004/5
• Leeor Gottlieb, Department of Bible, The Hebrew University: “Two Kinds of Erroneous Repetition in Textual Witnesses of the Hebrew Bible”


2002/3
• Noam Mizrahi, Department of Bible, The Hebrew University: “The 'Son of God' Scroll from Qumran: Exegetical Problems in Linguistic Perspective”




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Post-Doctoral Fellowship

From time to time the Hebrew University of Jerusalem makes funding available to the Orion Center for a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Hebrew University , in the fields of Dead Sea Scrolls and related literature. In the past the fellowship has carried an award of up to $15,000 per year, for one to three years.
The fellowship has not been renewed for the coming year, but please check here for future developments.
To see the application information in English, please click here
To see the application information in Hebrew, please click here.
To see the Research Grant Application Form (Personal Details) in English please click here..
To see the Research Grant Application Form (Personal Details) in Hebrew please click here..

For further details, please contact our office..

Previous Recipients

2007–2009
• Dr. Guy Stiebel, Department of Archaeology , University of London and The Hebrew University: Armis et Litteris—The Military Equipment of Early Roman Palestine in Light Of the Archaeological and Historical Sources



• Dr. Hanan Birenboim, Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University: Gentile Impurity in the Hasmonaean Period and in the Roman Period until the Bar-Kokhba Revolt



• Dr. Rafael Zer, Department of Bible, Hebrew University: Direct and Implicit Relations between the Babylonian and the Tiberian Masora, and the Ancient Biblical Textual Witnesses: The Scrolls of the Judean Desert and the Aramaic Biblical Translations





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2003–2006
• Dr. Noah Hacham, Department of the History of the Jewish People, The Hebrew University): The Third Book of Maccabees: Literature, History and Ideology



• Dr. Ronit Nikolsky, Department of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University: The Development of the Traditions about the Ten Tribes (2003)




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Orion Center Grant Recipients

2011/2012
• Michael Tuval, Ph.D. candidate in Jewish History of the Second Temple Period, Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Orion Matlow Scholar: “The Priests as Leaders of Judaism in Flavius Josephus and the Dead Sea Scrolls”



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2010/2011
• Miryam Brand, Ph.D. candidate, New York University, Orion Matlow Scholar: “‘At the Entrance Sin is Crouching’: The Source of Sin and its Nature as Portrayed in Second Temple Literature”


• Shlomit Harel-Kendi, Ph.D. candidate, Bar-Ilan University, Orion Matlow Scholar: “Festivals in Qumran and Related Literature”



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2009/2010
• Dr. Liora Goldman , Departments of Bible and Jewish History, University of Haifa , Orion Matlow Scholar: “A New Edition and Commentary on the Scroll 4Q408 (4QApocryphon of Moses)”






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2008/9
• Dr. Lara Guglielmo, Department of Ancient History, University Federico II of Naples, Italy: A Physical Reconstruction of the Halakhic Section of 4Q266 Witness



• Dr. Ariel Feldman, Department of Bible, Haifa University: The Reworking of 1-2 Kings in 4Q382

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2007/8
• Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, PhD student, Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University: National Identity and Territory: The Borders of the Land of Israel in the Consciousness of the People of the Second Temple and the Roman–Byzantine Periods



• Noam Mizrahi, PhD student, Department of Bible, The Hebrew University: The Lexicon and Phraseology of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice

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2006/7
• Joseph Leon Angel Ph.D. student (New York University): Priests and Priesthood at Qumran.

• Yehoshua Granat Ph.D. student (Department of Hebrew Literature): Creation Themes in Early Hebrew Poetry and Second Temple Literature (Matlow Scholarship)

• Moshe Tur-Paz Ph.D. student (Department of Jewish History): Community Boundaries and Religious Exclusion during the Second Temple Era (Matlow Scholarship)

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2005/6
• Jeremy Penner, Ph.D. student : The Development of Institutionalized Prayer within Judaism by Considering the Evidence for the Establishment of Regular, Set Times of Prayer within the Dead Sea Scrolls

• Alexander Paul Jassen, Ph.D. student : The Land of Israel in the Consciousness of the Jews During the Second Temple Literature, Mishnaic and Talmudic periods

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2004/5
• Vered Hillel, Ph.D. student :Source, Structure and Composition of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.

• Junghwa Choi, Ph.D. student : Leadership in the Qumran Community

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2003/4
• Dwight Swanson, Prof: The Nature of the Authority of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

• Eyal Ben Eliahoo, Ph.D. student : The Land of Israel in the Consciousness of the Jews During the Second Temple Literature, Mishnaic and Talmudic periods

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2002/3
• Hanan Birenboim, Ph.D. student: Sin, Impurity and the Body in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

• Sara Oren, Ph.D. student: Microscopic and Forensic Analysis of the Material on Which the Scrolls are Written.

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2001/2
• Shraga Bar-On, Ph.D. student: The Institution of "Casting Lots" from the Bible through the Second Temple Period

• Dr. Alexander Kulik: The Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch)

• Prof. Susan Sheridan: Analysis of the Human Remains in the German Qumran Collection

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2000/1
• Dr. Håkan Bengtsson, Post-doc: What's in a Name? A Study of Sobriquets in the Pesharim

• Avner Glucklich, Ph.D. student: The Anthropological-Historical Background to the Emergence of the Dead Sea Sect

• Nataniel B. Levtow, Ph.D. student: Polemics against "Incorrect" Worship Practices in Qumran Sectarian Literature

• Ronit Nikolsky, Ph.D. student: The History of the Rechabites

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1999/2000
• Mi-Sop Park, Ph.D. student: Repetition of Particles before Nouns in Biblical Hebrew and the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scroll

• G. Daniel Shtiebel, Ph.D. student: The Scroll of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness in Light of the Study of Military Equipment and Strategy in Palestine of the Classical Period

• Roni Yishai, Ph.D. student: The Scroll, "The War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness," from the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Six Copies of Cave 4 (4Q491-496): New Edition, Commentary and Introduction and Comparison with the Version of Cave 1 (1QM) and Other Relevant Fragments from Qumran

• Dr. Joe Zias: Qumran and the Essene Cemeteries and the Question of Celibacy: an Anthropological Reevaluation

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1998/9
• Beatriz Monco, Ph.D. student: Multiple Recensions of a Pseudepigraphic Book Transmitted in Greek at the End of the Ancient Period.

• Michael Segal, research student: Exegetical Techniques in Rewritten Bible.

• Uri Yiftach, Ph.D. student: Marriage and the Marital Arrangement: Law and Practice in the Greek Papyri from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Near East (4th c. BCE - 7th c. CE).

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1997/8
• Angela Y. Kim, Ph.D. student, University of Notre Dame: The Study of Text and the Pesher Genre in the Qumran Fragment of the Commentary of Hosea.

• Alexander Kulik, Ph.D. student, Hebrew University: Philological Study of the Book of the Vision of Abraham.

• Emmanuelle Main, Ph.D. student, Hebrew University: Research on the Sadducees.

• Stephen J. Pfann, Ph.D. student, Hebrew University: The Evolution of the Essene Movement: Ancient Historians, Scrolls and Archaeology.

• Eyal Regev, Ph.D. student, Bar Ilan University: Second Temple sects, with an emphasis on halacha, social history and material culture.

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1996/7


• Esther Eshel, The Belief in Demons in the Land of Israel in the Second Temple Period.

• Torleif Elgvin, Edition of Some Eschatological Writings from Qumran; Noah Hacham, The Third Book of Maccabees.

• Matthew Morgenstern, The Edition of the Previously Undeciphered Columns of the Genesis Apocryphon from Cave 1.

• Dr. Yizhar Hirschfield, The Excavation Finds at Qumran: An Architectural and Chronological Analysis.

• Dr. David Rothstein, Phylactery and Mezuzah Texts from Qumran.


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