Eric Reymond

Before joining YDS in 2010 to teach Hebrew, Dr. Reymond taught Aramaic and related languages and topics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author of five books, as well as co-author of two forthcoming works, the first (written with Frédérique Michèle Rey) is the Critical Edition of the Hebrew Manuscripts of Ben Sira with Translations and Philological Notes, Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 217 (Leiden: Brill) and the second (written with Samuel L. Adams) is The Wisdom of Ben Sira: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, vol. 1, Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven: Yale University Press). Reymond’s research focuses on the language and literary idiom of biblical and postbiblical Hebrew literature, especially that associated with Ben Sira and that found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is also a published poet, his poems having appeared in journals like New Orleans Review, the Portland Review, and New South, as well as in two short volumes: Nimrodia and Sub-Sub Librarian, Extracts on a (both Philadelphia: New Texture, 2018).

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Books

1. With Frédérique Michèle Rey. Critical Edition of the Hebrew Manuscripts of Ben Sira with Translations and Philological Notes. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 217. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
2. With Samuel L. Adams. The Wisdom of Ben Sira: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Vol. 1. Anchor Yale Bible. New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming. 
3. Complete Aramaic. Teach Yourself Series. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2021 (in UK; 2022 in USA). Pp. xviii + 326. 
4. Intermediate Biblical Hebrew Grammar: A Student’s Guide to Phonology and Morphology. Resources for Biblical Study 89. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2018. Pp. xx + 333.
5. Qumran Hebrew: An Overview of Orthography, Phonology, and Morphology. Resources for Biblical Study 76. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014. Pp. xvii + 309.
6. New Idioms within Old: Poetry and Parallelism in the Non-Masoretic Poems of 11Q5 (= 11QPs^a). Early Judaism and Its Literature 31. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. Pp. xiv + 228.
7. Innovations in Hebrew Poetry: Parallelism and the Poems of Sirach. Studies in Biblical Literature 9. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. Pp. xiv + 170.