A living collaboration of scholarship and technology.
Open Masorah unites scholars of the Masorah and the Hebrew Bible with experts in data science and machine learning.
Project Team
Advisory Board
Dr. David Marcus
Professor Emeritus of Bible and Masorah, JTS
PhD Columbia. Editor of Ezra–Nehemiah for the Biblia Hebraica Quinta; author of Scribal Wit (2014).
Rabbi Dr. David Moster
Director of the Biblical Hebrew Program, JTS
Director of the Institute of Biblical Culture; author of Etrog and the Biblical Hebrew Grammar and Vocabulary Cards.
Dr. Marcus Mordecai Schwartz
Librarian for Special Collections, JTS
PhD JTS. Author of Rewriting the Talmud (2019); oversees the JTS Hebrew manuscript collection.
Dr. Drew Longacre
Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible, University of Münster
PhD Birmingham. Works on a critical edition of the Hebrew Psalter at Münster; author of the forthcoming Scribes and the Psalter (Mohr Siebeck).
Dr. Nehemia Gordon
Executive Director, IHBMR
PhD Bar-Ilan. Translator on the Dead Sea Scrolls publication team; doctoral work on the Tetragrammaton in medieval Hebrew Bible manuscripts.
Dr. Vincent Beiler
Genizah Research Unit, University of Cambridge
PhD Cambridge; 2024 Oliver Cromwell Prize for Hebrew Studies. Research Associate, Pembroke College.
Dr. Kim Phillips
Genizah Research Unit, University of Cambridge
PhD Cambridge. A specialist in the Masorah and the textual transmission of the Hebrew Bible; teaches Biblical Hebrew at the Cambridge Faculty of Divinity.
Professor Ben Outhwaite
Head of the Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library
Head of the Genizah Research Unit since 2006. PhD Cambridge; series editor for Brill’s Cambridge Genizah Studies.
Dr. Kristine Yi
Research Fellow, IHBMR
PhD JTS. Research fellow at the IHBMR; her work centers on Masoretic studies and the interpretation of the Bible.
Judah Goldfeder
PhD Candidate, Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University
PhD candidate at Columbia; member of the NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems. Previously Google, Facebook AI Research, and Twitter; consultant to Dicta.
