Professor John Healey FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2011
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Summary
John Healey is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Manchester, where he was Professor of Semitic Studies until 2013. He continues as an editor of the University's Journal of Semitic Studies and is also a Professorial Research Associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. His main research has been on Aramaic epigraphy in the Greek and Roman Middle East. Having published extensively on Nabataean and Old Syriac inscriptions and to a lesser extent on Palmyrene Aramaic and Hatran Aramaic, he is currently working on projects connected with Nabataean language and early Syriac legal texts. He has secondary interests in the history of alphabetic writing in the Middle East, in Ugaritic language and literature and in the Hebrew Bible. Many of his publications are concerned with evidence of religion in pre-Islamic Syria and North Arabia.
Current post
Professor Emeritus of Semitic Studies, The University of Manchester
Past appointments
University of Manchester Professor Emeritus of Semitic Studies
2014 -
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Eleanor Robson FBA
History of literacy, numeracy and knowledge in ancient Middle Eastern cuneiform cultures; history and politics of archaeology and heritage in modern Iraq; open-access digital humanities approaches to cuneiform
