Dr. Nehemia Gordon is the executive director of the Institute of Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research, a scholar-in-residence for the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), and working on a post-doctorate at Université PSL’s École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE). Nehemia has examined hundreds of Bible manuscripts at libraries and collections around the world including at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, the Vatican’s Biblioteca Apostolica, Cambridge, and Oxford. The most important manuscripts he has had the opportunity to directly examine include the Aleppo Codex, the Leningrad Codex, and Codex Vaticanus. Nehemia’s eclectic research interests include textual criticism of the Bible, the Tetragrammaton, Hebrew palaeography, material science of ancient and medieval manuscripts, and the Jewish cultural background of early Christianity. Nehemia is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and World Union of Jewish Studies.
Dr. Kim Phillips is a research fellow at the Institute for Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research, a research associate at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit (Cambridge University Library), and an affiliated lecturer for the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught Biblical Hebrew for the past decade. His PhD focussed on the exegesis of Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra. He has recently completed two Cambridge-based post-doctoral projects, one studying Hebrew Bible manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah, and the other using multi-spectral imaging technology to re-examine a group of sixth-century Aramaic Bible manuscripts. Kim’s research interests include Masoretic Studies and the exegesis of the Hebrew Bible. He is a member of the Society for Old Testament Study, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the British and European Associations for Jewish Studies.
Dr. Kristine Heewon Yi is a research fellow at the Institute for Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research. She holds a Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, with her thesis focused on Doublet Catchwords in the Cairo Codex. Her research interests include Masoretic Studies and interpretation of the Bible, and her current work involves three-dotted Masoretic notes. Previously, she worked in the fields of finance, culinary, and homeless ministry. She is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Dr. Vincent Beiler is a research fellow at the Institute of Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research and an affiliated researcher at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Cambridge). His PhD focused on the variability of Masoretic notes in 10–12th century Hebrew Bibles, using that variability to create manuscript “family trees”—externally corroborating (or questioning) what paleographers and scholars of the Masorah have argued from a limited number of data points. His interests include the Masorah, paleography and codicology, the Second Firkovich collection, and “incidental” paratextual features. These research foci permit him to answer questions of historical significance in medieval Jewish Studies otherwise hidden from the documentary Genizah record. Vince is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the European Association for Jewish Studies.
Dr. Pavlos D. Vasileiadis lives with his family in Thessaloniki, Greece. He earned a post-doctoral degree at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki doing research on The Rendering of the Tetragrammaton in Greek in the Holy Scriptures and Other Literature. Pavlos holds a PhD in Biblical Literature and Religion (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and an MSc in Web Intelligence (International Hellenic University). His research is focused on the reception of the sacred Tetragrammaton in Greek and issues of Biblical translation and textual criticism. He is a research fellow at the Institute for Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research, a member of the European Association of Biblical Studies, and the Society of Biblical Literature.
Mordechai Weintraub is a research fellow at the Institute of Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of Talmud & Jewish Law. Mordechai’s Master’s thesis dealt with paratextual notations in liturgical Torah scrolls and his doctorate will deal with material aspects of their production. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Biblical Studies and Talmud & Jewish Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, his Master’s Degree in Talmud & Jewish Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and worked as a researcher on the Hebrew University Bible Project. Mordechai’s fields of interest are textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Masorah, the literature of the Sages, medieval Halachic literature, and Hebrew codicology and palaeography.
Nelson Calvillo is a research assistant at the Institute for Hebrew Bible Manuscript Research. He has worked directly with Torah scrolls at the Museum of the Bible and studied photos of hundreds of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts from libraries around the world. His research interests include Masoretic studies, Biblical Hebrew, and Koine Greek.