About Me

My name is Simon Holloway and I am a scribe of the Pharisees
I am a Jew
I am a post-graduate student
I am a scribe of the Pharisees.

I am the Director of Education at North Shore Temple Emanuel, and am doing a PhD in Classical Hebrew and Biblical Studies at The University of Sydney. I am also in possession of a BA in Communication, a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Biblical Studies; Honours), a Postgraduate Diploma in Languages (Classical Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac; Honours) and a Masters in Ancient History, for which I majored in Latin, Greek and Coptic.

My research concerns the linguistic analysis of Nehemiah, with a view to determining the compositional history of the text – or, at the least, of recognising the short-comings of the linguistic approach to doing so. I am very interested in Late Biblical Hebrew: its relationship with earlier forms of Biblical Hebrew, as well as with the post-Biblical Hebrew of the Rabbis. I am also very interested in the ‘interface’ between linguistics and literary criticism. To what extent do texts reflect authorial intent, and to what extent are they constrained by the strictures of the genre, or even the language itself?

More about my personal relationship with text might be found in a recent interview, that I was very flattered to have been granted, with John Hobbins of Biblioblogs.com.

Should you wish to contact me, I can be reached at “simon”, at benabuya dot com.