1. Daniel Sivan is an Israeli Emeritus professor in the Department of Hebrew Language at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
14 Facts About Daniel Sivan
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Daniel Sivan immigrated to Israel with his parents Makhluf and Allen and his two brothers Shmuel and Michel.
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Daniel Sivan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Bible Studies and Hebrew Language in 1970.
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Daniel Sivan's thesis focused on "Northwest Semitic in Akkadian texts from Ugarit" and was under the guidance of Professor Anson Frank Rainey.
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Daniel Sivan was a member of the band "Koah Meshikha" in which he played the guitar and sang blues and jazz songs with his brother, Gabi Siboni.
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In 1986 and 1990, Daniel Sivan was a visiting professor at Harvard University and Brandeis University.
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Between 2000 and 2004, Daniel Sivan held the position of Head of the Department of Hebrew Language and functioned as the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences during the tenure of Dean Jimmy Weinblatt.
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From 1998 to 2013, Daniel Sivan was the chairman of Ben-Gurion University's publishing house, and during his tenure more than 150 titles were published.
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From 2006 to 2010, Daniel Sivan was a member of the Ben-Gurion University Top Nominations Committee.
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Daniel Sivan won several significant awards during his studies including the Mifal HaPayis award, the Nissim Gaon Award, and the Recanati Family Foundation Award.
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In 1995, together with Professor Haim Cohen, Daniel Sivan received an Honorary Award on behalf of the Israel Science Foundation.
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Daniel Sivan demonstrated that Ugaritic had its own characteristic linguistic features, and accordingly it should be regarded as an independent language among the northwestern Semitic languages.
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Daniel Sivan studied the work of the grammarian Rabbi Yehuda Hayyuj.
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Daniel Sivan has written articles on some of the linguistic concepts in this work, and in 2012, together with Dr Ali Wattad, he published an annotated, critical edition called "The Three Grammar Essays of Rabbi Yehuda Hayyuj in their Arabic Origin and their Translation to Modern Hebrew," published by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev publishing house.