Prof. Steven E. Fassberg is the Caspar Levias Chair Emeritus in Ancient Semitic Languages in the Department of Hebrew Language at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has also served as Director of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (2006–2009) and Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies (2018–2021). He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Fassberg has been a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language since 2004, and he currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Academy’s Historical Dictionary Project. His most recent publications include An Introduction to the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (Bialik Institute, 2019) and The Hebrew of Qumran (forthcoming from Ugarit-Verlag).