Abraham Tal is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Hebrew Language at Tel-Aviv University; he has also served as a visiting professor at various institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Australia. For two decades, Tal served as the editor-in-chief of The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language, and the chief research project of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. He has authored numerous books and scholarly articles, including a two-volume Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic; a grammar of Samaritan Aramaic; and, with Moshe Florentin, an edited and annotated edition of the Samaritan and Masoretic versions of the Pentateuch.
