Benjamin Suchard
Guest researcher
- Name
- Dr. B.D. Suchard
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2125
- b.d.suchard@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5688-4488
Benjamin Suchard is a historical linguist with a specialization in Biblical Hebrew and a background in Indo-European. His research focuses on phonological and morphological reconstruction in all branches of Semitic, as well as the (pre-)history of the reading traditions of the Hebrew Bible.
Fields of interest
- Biblical Hebrew
- Aramaic
- Hebrew Bible
Grants and awards
- 2023: Cuijpers-Opdenakker Annual Prize (Netherlands Institute for the Near East & Ex Oriente Lux), best article on the Ancient Near East written by a junior scholar in the Netherlands, for ‘The Greek in Daniel 3: code-switching, not loanwords’.
- 2019: Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
- 2019: Senior postdoctoral fellowship, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO).
- 2017: Postdoctoral grant, Stichting Studiecentrum voor Judaïca en Hebraica Dr L. Fuks.
Curriculum vitae
| 2019-2020, 2022-2025 | Senior postdoctoral fellow, project: ‘But They Could Not Read the Writing: The Biblical Aramaic consonantal text, its reading tradition and their mutual interaction’, KU Leuven. |
| 2019-2022 | Postdoctoral researcher, project: ‘Nabataean Aramaic and Pre-Islamic Arabic’, Leiden University. |
| 2017-2018 | Postdoctoral researcher, project: ‘The origins of the Biblical Aramaic reading tradition’, Leiden University. |
| 2016-2018 | Lecturer in Linguistics and Hebrew & Aramaic, Leiden University. |
| 2012-2016 | PhD candidate in Linguistics, dissertation: 'The development of the Biblical Hebrew vowels', supervised by H. Gzella and A.M. Lubotsky, Leiden University. |
| 2010-2012 | Research MA in Linguistics, Leiden University. |
| 2009-2010 | Propaedeutic diploma in Philosophy, Leiden University. |
| 2007-2010 |
BA in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Leiden University. |
Key publications
- 'What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre-Islamic Arabic?' Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 34.1 (2023), 158-172.
- Aramaic Daniel: A textual reconstruction of Chapters 1-7. Studia Semitica Neerlandica 73. 2022; Leiden: Brill.
- 'The origins of the Biblical Aramaic reading tradition.' Vetus Testamentum 71 (2021), 105-119.
- The development of the Biblical Hebrew vowels. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 99. 2019; Leiden: Brill.
Guest researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL diversen
- Postdoctoral Researcher