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Emanuel Tov
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “professor in the department of bible at the hebrew university of jerusalem”. Today it says “dutch–israeli biblical scholar and linguist”.
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Emanuel Tov , FBA ( ; born 15 September 1941, Amsterdam , the Netherlands as Menno Toff ) is a Dutch–Israeli biblical scholar and linguist , emeritus J.1 Magnes Professor of Bible Studies in the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He has been intimately involved with the Dead Sea Scrolls for many decades, and from 1991, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project.
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professor in the department of bible at the hebrew university of jerusalem
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dutch–israeli biblical scholar and linguist
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