Yairah Amit

Yairah Amit (born 19 October 1941 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli biblical scholar. Amit studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before doing a PhD at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Meir Sternberg. She is currently Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University. In 2012 a Festschrift was published in her honor. Words, Ideas, Worlds: Biblical Essays in Honour of Yairah Amit (ISBN 1-90753-450-4) included contributions from Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, and Yael Feldman.

Selected works

 * The book of Judges : the art of editing, 1992
 * Sefer Shofṭim : omanut ha-ʻarikhah, 1992
 * Hidden polemics in biblical narrative, 1996
 * History and ideology : an introduction to historiography in the Hebrew Bible, 1997
 * Shofṭim : ʻim mavo u-ferush, 1999
 * Reading biblical narratives : literary criticism and the Hebrew Bible, 2000
 * Galui ṿe-nistar ba-Miḳra : pulmusim geluyim, ʻaḳifim uṿe-iḳar semuyim, 2003
 * Essays on ancient Israel in its Near Eastern context : a tribute to Nadav Naʼaman, 2006
 * In praise of editing in the Hebrew Bible : collected essays in retrospect, 2012