Dr Vincent Beiler is a Research Associate at the Unit. He works on Hebrew Bible manuscripts of the 10th–13th century, focusing on the Masorah, paratext, vocalisation, and orthography.
He previously earned an MA at the Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University (2019), followed by a PhD at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge (2024), under the supervision of Prof. Geoffrey Khan. The thesis, The Small Masorah: Genealogical Relationships in 112 Early Hebrew Bible Codices Based upon the Masorah Parva, was awarded the Oliver Cromwell Prize for Hebrew Studies. He then worked as Research Fellow for the Institute of Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research before beginning a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2025–2028), hosted by the Unit. His present work involves rejoining fragmented codices, describing their contents, and transcribing their colophons and (sometimes emended) dedications.
A (mostly) up to date CV can be found at https://cambridge.academia.edu/VincentBeiler/CurriculumVitae