GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN, MOSHE

GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN, MOSHE (1925–1991), scholar of Semitic linguistics. Born in Berlin, Goshen-Gottstein immi grated to Palestine in 1939. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and taught there from 1950 on, becoming professor of Semitic linguistics and biblical philology in 1967. He was also director of the lexicographical institute and biblical research institute of Bar-Ilan University. In 1988 he was awarded the Israel Prize in Jewish studies. His three areas of research were biblical studies, Hebrew linguistics, and Semitic linguistics. His numerous articles and books included Medieval Hebrew Syntax and Vocabulary as Influenced by Arabic, Introduction to the Lexicography of Modern Hebrew, and The Aleppo Codex. He worked on a number of dictionaries, among them the Millon ha-Ivrit ha-Hadashah ("Dictionary of Modern Hebrew"), the first synchronic dictionary of Hebrew, of which only the introductory volume was published (1969).