Yairah Amit, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yairah Amit

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1941

Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Profession: educator, university teacher, biblical scholar

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Yairah Amit (born 19 October 1941 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli biblical scholar.
Amit studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before doing a PhD at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Meir Sternberg.
She is currently Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University.
In 2012 a Festschrift was published in her honor.
Words, Ideas, Worlds: Biblical Essays in Honour of Yairah Amit (ISBN 1-90753-450-4) included contributions from Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, and Yael Feldman.