Unit Staff
Dr Ben Outhwaite
Dr Ben Outhwaite was appointed Head of the
Genizah Research Unit in May 2006, having worked for the
previous seven years as a researcher in the Unit. His
projects for the Unit included completing the two remaining
volumes in the series Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the
Cambridge Genizah Collections by M.C. Davis, working on a
joint project with Dr Uri Ehrlich of Ben Gurion University
of the Negev, Israel, on a catalogue of liturgical items,
and beginning a project to identify and describe the Hebrew
and Aramaic documentary fragments throughout the T-S
Collection.
Dr Outhwaite received a B.A. in Hebrew Studies and an M.Phil. in Medieval Hebrew literature from Christ's College, Cambridge. His Cambridge Ph.D. thesis, on the grammatical description of Hebrew letters in the Genizah, was completed under the supervision of Professor Geoffrey Khan.
Dr Outhwaite's research interests include the vocalization and underlying pronunciation of medieval Bible manuscripts; the medieval Hebrew language; Hebrew and Aramaic letters and documents as a source for the history of the medieval Middle East.