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Richard C. Steiner (born 1945) is a Semitist and a scholar of Northwest Semitic languages, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern texts. His work has focused on texts from as early as the Egyptian Pyramid texts to as late as medieval biblical interpretation. He is a professor of Semitics at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University in New York City. Steiner received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Bible, Semitics, and Jewish Studies (under Moshe Greenberg, later of the Hebrew University) and linguistics (under Henry M. Hoenigswald and William Labov). He collaborated with Labov on an important study of sound changes in spoken languages.〔William Labov, Malcah Yaeger and Richard Steiner, A quantitative study of sound change in progress (Philadelphia: U. S. Regional Survey, 1972).〕 Steiner's early work focused on the phonology of Semitic languages, especially Hebrew. In one book he argued that the letter known as Hebrew sin was pronounced as a fricative-lateral〔The Case for Fricative-Laterals in Proto-Semitic, (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1977.〕 and in another he argued that the pronunciation of the letter tsade as an affricate, /ts/, is very old and widespread, against others who had doubted this.〔Affricated Sade in the Semitic Languages (New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1982).〕 These books have convinced most specialists.〔For example: John Huehnergard, "Proto-Semitic and Proto-Akkadian," in The Akkadian Language in its Semitic Context: Studies in the Akkadian of the Third and Second Millennium BC (ed. Deutscher and Kouwenberg; Leiden: NINO), 1–18.〕 In 2007 Steiner gave a lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in which he announced that he had deciphered linguistically Semitic spells in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts from the mid-third millennium BC.〔The lecture is available, unfortunately, only in Hebrew (http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/PDF/steiner.pdf).〕 This discovery was reported on by National Geographic,〔http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070205-snake-spells.html〕 Science Daily,〔http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070129100250.htm〕 and others.〔http://spider.mc.yu.edu/news/articles/article.cfm?id=101302〕 In July 2010 he was invited to give the plenary address at the annual conference of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.〔http://vanhise.lss.wisc.edu/naph/files/program2010%20-%20Final.pdf〕 His brother is Mark Steiner, Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew University == Books == * ''A Quantitative Study of Sound Change in Progress'' (Report on National Science Foundation Contract NSF-GS-3287). 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1972 (William Labov, Malcah Yaeger, and Richard Steiner). * ''The Case for Fricative-Laterals in Proto-Semitic'' (American Oriental Series, 59),New Haven, 1977. * ''Affricated Sade in the Semitic Languages'' (American Academy for Jewish Research Monograph Series, 3), New York, 1982. * ''Stockmen from Tekoa, Sycomores from Sheba: A Study of Amos’ Occupations'' (CBQ Monograph Series, 36), Washington DC, 2003. * ''A Biblical Translation in the Making: The Evolution and Impact of Saadia Gaon’s Tafsīr'' (Harvard Judaic Monographs, 2011) * ''Early Northwest Semitic Serpent Spells in the Pyramid Texts'' (Harvard Semitic Studies 61; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011) 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「Richard C Steiner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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