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Ephraim Isaac (born May 29, 1936) is a scholar of ancient Semitic Languages & Civilization, and African/Ethiopian Languages and Religion. He is of Ethiopian and Yemenite Jewish ancestry. He is the Director of the Institute of Semitic Studies (Princeton, New Jersey) 〔http://instituteofsemiticstudies.org/ISS_Site/Home.html〕 and the Chair of the Board of the Ethiopian Peace and Development Center.〔Campbell, Colin. "About Education; Semitic Scholarship". The New York Times, December 2, 1986〕 Born in Ethiopia where he received his early education, Dr. Isaac holds B Div. (Harvard Divinity School, '63); a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages (Harvard University, '69); a D.H.L. (Honorary, John Jay/CUNY, '93); a Litt. D. (Honorary, Addis Ababa University, 2004). He is a founder, and the first Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.〔Time Magazine, January 26, 1970〕 In recognition of his merits, the "Ephraim Isaac Prize for Excellence in African Languages" is given to a Harvard graduate who writes the best essay in African Studies. ==Career== As a scholar, Ephraim Isaac has been a professor at various universities and has published scholarly articles and books. He was the first faculty appointment in Harvard University's Department of African and Afro-American Studies in 1969, and he played an important role in the early history of the Department. Committed to this emerging field of scholarship, Isaac continued as a faculty member until 1977 and taught almost half of the students enrolled in the program during that time period.〔http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/awards/academic〕 Dr. Isaac has also lectured at following institutions of higher learning (a selection): * Princeton University - Near Eastern Studies, 1983-85 when he introduced the first African Language course ever at Princeton in 1984; V. Prof., Religion & African American Studies 1995-2001; and where remains a Fellow of Butler College. * Hebrew University (Ancient Semitic Languages) * University of Pennsylvania (Religion, Semitic Languages) * Howard University (Divinity School) * Lehigh University (Religion) * Bard College (Religion, History) His subjects range from those mentioned above to Biblical Hebrew, Rabbinic Literature, Ethiopian History, Concept and History of Slavery and Ancient African Civilizations. He was a Fellow at the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Advanced Studies. He has been a Fellow, Harvard University, Dubois Institute (1985–86); Fellow Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton (1989–92). Dr. Isaac had a long-running dispute with Harvard regarding denial of his request for tenure.〔(NYT article )〕〔(Court documents )〕 In the end, he lost his appeals in court. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ephraim Isaac」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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