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unusual facts about University of Jerusalem



Laws of Eshnunna

A distinguished Israeli scientist and one of the foremost experts on this collection of laws, Reuven Yaron of the University of Jerusalem concerning this matter stated: “What matters to me – and might have mattered to those who fashioned them almost 4000 years ago – is the ease of remembering the text.”


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Bernard Avishai

Bernard Avishai, Adjunct Professor of Business, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, splits his time between Jerusalem and Wilmot, New Hampshire.

Galit

Galit Hasan-Rokem, professor in the Hebrew Literature department in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Holy anointing oil

The standard reference works on Bible plants by Michael Zohary (University of Jerusalem, Cambridge, 1985), James A. Duke (2010), and Hans Arne Jensen (Danish 2004, English translation 2012) identify the plant as a variety of Cymbopogon.

Lee Levine

Lee I. Levine, Talmud scholar, professor of Jewish history and archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Psalm 51

Parallels between the Ancient Egyptian ritual text Opening of the mouth ceremony and Psalm 51 are pointed out in "Psalm 51 and the 'Opening of the Mouth' Ceremony," by Benjamin Urrutia, Scripta Hierosolymitana: Publications of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, volume 28, pages 222-223 (1982).

Sharkansky

Ira Sharkansky, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem