{{short description|Israeli historian and linguist}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Margalit Finkelberg | image = File:Professor Margalit Finkelberg.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Маргарита Георгиевна Карпюк | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = Minsk, USSR | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | nationality = | citizenship = | residence = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | home_town = | title = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = | education = {{Plainlist| * B.A., M.A., Classics, Moscow State University * PhD., 1986, Hebrew University of Jerusalem }} | alma_mater = <!--will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution--> | thesis_title = Poetry in Greek thought before Aristotle: a study in early Greek poetics | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1985 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | era = | discipline = | sub_discipline = | workplaces = Tel Aviv University | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = | native_name = מרגלית פינקלברג | native_name_lang = he }}
'''Margalit Finkelberg''' (née '''Karpyuk'''; born 1947) ({{Langx|he|מרגלית פינקלברג}}) is an Israeli historian and linguist. She is the professor emerita of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2005 and served as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies from 2011 to 2016. In 2021, she was elected vice president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
==Early life== Finkelberg was born in Minsk on March 8, 1947 and immigrated to Israel in 1975. She received a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Levy |first1=Meirav |title=4 מדענים הצטרפו לאקדמיה הלאומית למדעים |url=https://www.nfc.co.il/Archive/001-D-89721-00.html?tag=22-58-16&tag=22-58-16 |website=nfc.co.il |accessdate=30 August 2019 |language=Hebrew |archive-date=14 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214180450/https://www.nfc.co.il/Archive/001-D-89721-00.html?tag=22-58-16&tag=22-58-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Career== Finkelberg began teaching in 1987 at the Hebrew University and from 1991 taught at Tel Aviv University. While there, she was the recipient of the 1991 Gildersleeve Prize from the Johns Hopkins University Press for the best article published in the American Journal of Philology.<ref name = "TAU profile">{{cite web |title=פרופ' מרגלית פינקלברג |url=https://www.tau.ac.il/profile/finkelbe |website=tau.ac.il |accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref> A few years later, while still teaching at Tel Aviv University, Finkelberg published ''The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece'' in 1998.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rutherford |first1=R. B. |title=Reviewed Work: The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece by Margalit Finkelberg |journal=Classical Philology |date=October 2000 |volume=95 |issue=4 |pages=482–486 |jstor=270520 |doi=10.1086/449515 }}</ref> From 1999 to 2000, Finkelberg studied as a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she began to craft her future book ''Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition.''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dinitrandu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Greeks-and-Pre-greeks.pdf |title=Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition|accessdate=31 August 2019 |page=xi}}</ref>
In the early 2000s, Finkelberg collaborated with Guy Stroumsa at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (now known as the Israel Institute for Advanced Study) to research "Mechanisms of Canon-Making in Ancient Societies."<ref>{{cite book |author1=Guy G. Stroumsa |title=The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity |date=November 2016 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674545137 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dyl5DQAAQBAJ&q=margalit+finkelberg+Institute+for+Advanced+Studies%2C+Hebrew+University+of+Jerusalem&pg=PA179 |accessdate=31 August 2019}}</ref> These efforts would later come into fruition in 2003, with their book ''Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World.''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pontani |first1=Filippomaria |title=Reviewed Work: Homer, the Bible, and beyond. Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World by M. Finkelberg, G. G. Stroumsa |journal=The Journal of Hellenic Studies |date=2004 |volume=124 |pages=190–191 |jstor=3246171 |doi=10.2307/3246171 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=Yaacov Shavit |title=Canons at War |url=https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/1.4767083 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831011321/https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/1.4767083 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 31, 2019 |accessdate=31 August 2019 |publisher=Haaretz |date=21 November 2003}}</ref> Despite this, Finkelberg still wrote about linguistics. In an article from 2001, Finkelberg claimed that there was a "high degree of correspondence between the phonological and morphological system of Minoan and that of Lycian" and proposed that "the language of Linear A is either the direct ancestor of Lycian or a closely related idiom."<ref>{{cite book |last=Finkelberg |first=Margalit |date=2001 |chapter=The Language of Linear A: Greek, Semitic, or Anatolian? |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/24273902 |editor-last=Drews |editor-first=Robert |title=Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family |series=Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series |volume=38 |pages=81–105 |place=Washington, DC |isbn=978-0941694773 |via=Academia.edu}}</ref>
Beginning in 2002, Finkelberg headed the Department of Classics at Tel Aviv University until 2006.<ref name = "TAU profile"/> In 2005, Finkelberg became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Siegel–Itzkovich |first1=Judy |title=TWO CLASSICISTS, TWO MOLECULAR GENETICISTS CHOSEN FOR SCIENCE ACADEMY |url=https://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Sci-Tech/Science-And-Environment/Two-classicists-two-molecular-geneticists-chosen-for-science-academy |accessdate=30 August 2019 |publisher=The Jerusalem Post |date=27 December 2005}}</ref> That same year, she also published ''Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition.''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cobet |first1=Justus |title=Reviewed Work: Greeks and Pre-Greeks. Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition by Margalit Finkelberg |journal=Gnomon |volume=80 |issue=3 |date=2008 |pages=278–280 |jstor=40494744 }}</ref> From 2006 to 2007, Finkelberg was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. While there, she received funding to study the impact of Homeric poems.<ref>{{cite web |title=INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY 2006-2007 |url=https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/documents/publications/Facebookfinal.pdf |website=ias.edu |accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref>
In 2011, she was elected president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies<ref name = "TAU profile"/> and was selected to sit on the Committee for the Evaluation of Archaeology Study Programs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.<ref>{{cite web |title=Committee for the Evaluation of Archaeology Study Programs |url=https://che.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Ben-Gurion-University-8.pdf |website=che.org.il |accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref> The following year, Finkelberg edited the first Homer Encyclopedia, which was considered the first comprehensive reference work on the Greek poet Homer.<ref>{{cite web |title=TAU Researcher Creates First Homer Encyclopedia |url=https://english.tau.ac.il/news/Homer-Encyclopedia |website=english.tau.ac.il |accessdate=30 August 2019 |date=4 June 2012}}</ref> She was also the 2012 Recipient of the Rothschild Prize in the Humanities.<ref>{{cite web |title=1959 Since Winners Prize Rothschild |url=https://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/sites/default/files/media/document/2019-01/Rothschild%20Prize%20Booklet%20%202014.pdf |website=yadhanadiv.org |accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref> In 2013, Finkelberg sat on the Dan David Prize Review Committee for Classics, the Modern Legacy of the Ancient World.<ref>{{cite web |title=REVIEW COMMITTEES 2013 |url=https://www.dandavidprize.org/about/review-committees/492-review-committees-2013 |website=dandavidprize.org |accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref> She was also Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2000) and an International Visiting Research Scholar at the University of British Columbia (2014).<ref>{{cite web |title=Margalit Finkelberg |url=https://pwias.ubc.ca/profile/margalit-finkelberg |website=pwias.ubc.ca |accessdate=30 August 2019 |date=2016-07-25 |archive-date=2019-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524191950/https://pwias.ubc.ca/profile/margalit-finkelberg |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2016, Finkelberg stepped down as president of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies.<ref name = "TAU profile"/>
She retired from teaching in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=אירוע // כנס בינלאומי: "שפה וטקסט", לכבוד פרופ' מרגלית פינקלברג, לרגל צאתה לגמלאות [תל אביב] 5-6.6.17 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/humnetil/announcements/0508120 |accessdate=30 August 2019 |language=Hebrew}}</ref>
==Selected publications== The following is a list of selected publications:<ref>{{cite web |title=Au:Finkelberg, Margalit |url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Au%3AFinkelberg%2C+Margalit |website=worldcat.org |accessdate=31 August 2019}}</ref> *''The birth of literary fiction in ancient Greece'' (1998) *''Homer, the bible, and beyond: literary and religious canons in the ancient world'' (2003) *''The birth of literary fiction in ancient Greece'' (2004) *''Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition'' (2005) *''The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues'' (2019) * ''Homer and Early Greek Epic. Collected Essays'' (2020)
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