Dr David Stec

Qualifications: Graduate of Leeds, Cambridge and Manchester
Email: d.stec@sheffield.ac.uk

The centrepiece of David’s PhD thesis was a critical edition of the Targum of Job, which was updated and published as The Text of the Targum of Job: An Introduction and Critical Edition (1994).

Research interests

• The Hebrew and Aramaic languages
• Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and the Targum.

Current research projects

David has been working since 1991 on the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew Project. He is currently working on an edition of some apocryphal psalms from the Cairo Genizah.

Selected publications:

• The Text of the Targum of Job: An Introduction and Critical Edition (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 20; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994).
• The Targum of Psalms: Translated, with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus and Notes (The Aramaic Bible, 16; Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2004).