Prof. Abraham Tal is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Linguistics of Tel Aviv University, formerly the vice-president of the Academy of Hebrew Language and editor-in-chief of the Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language. He holds a PhD from Hebrew University. Among his major publications are A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic (Brill, 2000), The Pentateuch – The Samaritan Version (with Moshe Florentin, TAU University Press, 2010), Tibat Marqe – Edition, Translation, Commentary (Studia Samaritana, de Gruyter, 2019), and Samaritan Aramaic (Ugarit Verlag, 2013).