Dr. Ohad Cohen

Dr. Ohad Cohen is a linguistics researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ohad earned an undergraduate and masters degree in Bible and Hebrew Language and wrote his doctoral thesis on the verbal tense system in late Biblical Hebrew prose, all at the Hebrew University. He held a research fellowship at Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC). Moreover, he has been awarded various research grants and prizes, among them the Warburg Foundation Award and the Research Center for the Hebrew Language’s Eliezer Ben Yehudah Award. Ohad, who has received several honors for excellence in teaching, lectures on a wide range of topics — Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, the verbal tense system of Biblical Hebrew, the Tiberian phonetic tradition, and the history of the Hebrew language, among others — at the Hebrew University as well as the university’s Rothberg International School for overseas students. Ohad’s passion for the Hebrew language is one of the main driving forces behind ClassicalHebrew.com’s commitment to quality programs.