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מרגלית פינקלברג | |
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| Born | Маргарита Георгиевна Карпюк 1947 (age 77–78) Minsk, USSR |
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| Thesis | Poetry in Greek thought before Aristotle: a study in early Greek poetics (1985) |
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| Institutions | Tel Aviv University |
Margalit Finkelberg (néeKarpyuk; born 1947) (Hebrew:מרגלית פינקלברג) is an Israeli historian andlinguist. She is the professoremerita of Classics atTel Aviv University. She became a member of theIsrael Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2005 and served as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies from 2011 to 2016. In 2021, she was elected vice president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Finkelberg was born inMinsk on March 8, 1947 and immigrated to Israel in 1975. She received aPh.D. from theHebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]
Finkelberg began teaching in 1987 at the Hebrew University and from 1991 taught at Tel Aviv University. While there, she was the recipient of the 1991Gildersleeve Prize from theJohns Hopkins University Press for the best article published in theAmerican Journal of Philology.[2] A few years later, while still teaching at Tel Aviv University, Finkelberg publishedThe Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece in 1998.[3] From 1999 to 2000, Finkelberg studied as a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she began to craft her future bookGreeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition.[4]
In the early 2000s, Finkelberg collaborated withGuy Stroumsa at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (now known as the Israel Institute for Advanced Study) to research "Mechanisms of Canon-Making in Ancient Societies."[5] These efforts would later come into fruition in 2003, with their bookHomer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World.[6][7] Despite this, Finkelberg still wrote about linguistics. In an article from 2001, Finkelberg claimed that there was a "high degree of correspondence between the phonological and morphological system of Minoan and that ofLycian" and proposed that "the language ofLinear A is either the direct ancestor of Lycian or a closely related idiom."[8]
Beginning in 2002, Finkelberg headed the Department of Classics at Tel Aviv University until 2006.[2] In 2005, Finkelberg became a member of theIsrael Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[9] That same year, she also publishedGreeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition.[10] From 2006 to 2007, Finkelberg was a member of theInstitute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. While there, she received funding to study the impact of Homeric poems.[11]
In 2011, she was elected president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies[2] and was selected to sit on the Committee for the Evaluation of Archaeology Study Programs atBen-Gurion University of the Negev.[12] The following year, Finkelberg edited the first Homer Encyclopedia, which was considered the first comprehensive reference work on the Greek poetHomer.[13] She was also the 2012 Recipient of the Rothschild Prize in the Humanities.[14] In 2013, Finkelberg sat on the Dan David Prize Review Committee for Classics, the Modern Legacy of the Ancient World.[15] She was also Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2000) and an International Visiting Research Scholar at theUniversity of British Columbia (2014).[16] In 2016, Finkelberg stepped down as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies.[2]
She retired from teaching in 2017.[17]
The following is a list of selected publications:[18]
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