Mats Eskhult

Professor in Semitic Languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology

Telephone:: +46 18 471 14 22
E-mail:: Mats.Eskhult@lingfil.uu.se
Visiting address:: Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H
Postal address:: Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA

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Biography

In 1990 I graduated with my PhD in Semitic languages, in 2002 I became associate professor (docent), and in 2012 professor of Semitic languages. My research focuses on the following fields, viz., biblical and post-biblical Hebrew, Syriac lexicography (particles), Arabic Bible and early Christian literature, and the study of Semitic languages in Europe in early modern times. As a supervisor I have engaged in Hebrew, Syriac, and general Bible translation projects. During my 35 years as university teacher I have tried to draw the students’ attention to those grammatical phenomena that are not covered by certain rules and therefore commonly described from very diverging points of view.

Publications

Recent publications

Tense form and tense frames in Qumran Hebrew prose and poetry

Eskhult, Mats

Part of The reconfiguration of Hebrew in the Hellenistic period, p. 16-29, 2018
Stenij's edition of the Epistle to the Hebrews from Codex Tischendorf, dated to 892 AD - with special reference to the use of particles

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Parole de l'Orient, p. 145-158, 2018
Translation technique in the epistle to the Hebrews as edited by Edvard Stenij from Codex Tischendorf

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Senses of Scripture. Treasure of tradition, p. 425-435, 2017
Thoughts on Biblical Hebrew ’^ašær

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized, p. 391-396, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015
Some remarks on the biblical quotations in Abu Qurrah’s Tract on the Veneration of the Holy Icons

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Parole de l’Orient, p. 1-14, 2014

All publications

Articles in journal

Chapters in book

Thoughts on Biblical Hebrew ’^ašær

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized, p. 391-396, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015
The influence of Gesenius’ lexicon as discerned in works by 19th century Scandinavian Hebraists

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Biblische Exegese und Hebräischen Lexikographie, p. 525-547, Walter de Gruyter, 2013
The influence of Gesenius' lexicon as discerned in works by 19th century Scandinavian Hebraists

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Biblische Exegese und Hebräische Lexicographie, p. 525-547, De Gruyter, 2013
Relative ha-: A late Biblical Hebrew phenomenon?

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Hebrew in the Second Temple Period, p. 47-55, Brill Academic Publishers, 2013
Paronomastic Infinitive

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics, Brill Academic Publishers, 2013
Höga Visan och Palestinsk kärlekspoesi

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Plogbillar och svärd, p. 32-43, Molin & Sorgenfrei, 2012
Thoughts on Phrases and Clauses Expressing Circumstance in Biblical Hebrew Narration

Eskhult, Mats

Part of En pase grammatike kai sophia, p. 107-122, Edizioni Terra Santa, 2011
Lost in the City: An Essay on Christian Attitudes towards Urbanism in Late Antiquity

Eskhult, Mats

Part of The urban mind, p. 311-328, Uppsala universitet, 2010
Peringer som hebraist

Eskhult, Mats

Part of En resenär i svenska stormaktstidens språklandskap, p. 127-139, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2007
Markers of text type in Biblical Hebrew from a diachronic perspective

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Hamlet on a Hill, p. 153-164, Peeters, Leuven, 2003

Collections (editor)

Orientalia Suecana Vol LXI (2012)

Csató, Éva Ágnes; Enwall, Joakim; Eskhult, Mats; Jahani, Carina et al.

Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2013
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Orientalia Suecana Vol. LXI (2012): Supplement

Csató, Éva Ágnes; Enwall, Joakim; Eskhult, Mats; Jahani, Carina et al.

Institutionen för Lingvistik och Filologi, 2012
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Conference papers

Tense form and tense frames in Qumran Hebrew prose and poetry

Eskhult, Mats

Part of The reconfiguration of Hebrew in the Hellenistic period, p. 16-29, 2018
Translation technique in the epistle to the Hebrews as edited by Edvard Stenij from Codex Tischendorf

Eskhult, Mats

Part of Senses of Scripture. Treasure of tradition, p. 425-435, 2017
Some features in the Hebrew of Johan Kemper

Eskhult, Mats

Part of The professorship of Semitic languages at Uppsala University 400 years, p. 103-113, 2007

Conference proceedings (editor)

The Professorship of Semitic Languages at Uppsala University 400 years: Jubilee Volume from a Symposium held at the University Hall, 21-23 September 2005

Isaksson, Bo; Eskhult, Mats; Ramsay, Gail

2007