Each year, the Centre hosts a lecture in memory of Professor Edward Ullendorff (1920-2011), FBA and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies until his death. Professor Ullendorff was a leading specialist of Semitic linguistics with particular emphasis on the languages of Ethiopia. This series of annual lectures held in his memory hosts distinguished linguists, philologists, and literary historians working on Hebrew and Semitic languages.
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Michaelmas Term 2025
Ninth Edward Ullendorff Memorial Lecture
Week 4, Wednesday 5 November at 18:00 (UK time)
Professor Matthew Morgenstern (Tel Aviv University), Theodor Nöldeke’s Mandäische Grammatik (1875) in Retrospect: 150 Years of Babylonian Aramaic Studies
This lecture will be a hybrid session which will be accessible both online and in person in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Room, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG. Refreshments to follow.