Vladimir
Olivero

Dr. Vladimir Olivero is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow in the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Noam Mizrahi.

Vladimir is investigating the relevance of textual criticism for the linguistic periodization of Biblical Hebrew with a specific focus on the Deuteronomistic History.

The textual fluidity of the biblical corpus has been deemed by many as limiting the possibility of tracing the linguistic development of Hebrew. However, later textual variants illustrate how later scribes intervened and allowed more recent morphological, syntactic, and semantic elements into the earlier texts that they were copying. The text-critical approach to the history of the Hebrew language and the linguistic assessment of the textual variants thus illuminate each other, with the former providing an external set of data against which to check the validity of the traditional linguistic periodization of Biblical Hebrew.

Vladimir was born and raised in Switzerland. He obtained a BA and MA in classics at the University of Milan. He then completed an MSt in Classical Hebrew studies at the University of Oxford, where he also earned his PhD in Oriental Studies under the joint supervision of Prof. Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford) and Prof. Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge). After working with Prof. Jacob Dahl, as a research assistant in Assyriology at the University of Oxford, Vladimir pursued his postdoctoral studies at the University for Foreigners of Siena under the supervision of Prof. Marina Benedetti. He then worked as a research associate in Hebrew linguistics and philology for the Grammar of Biblical Hebrew project at the University of Cambridge under Prof. Geoffrey Khan. In his free time, Vladimir enjoys languages, travelling, and playing football.