Takamitsu Muraoka

Takamitsu Muraoka
Born	9 February 1938  Hiroshima
Education	Doctor of Philosophy
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation	Linguist, Hebraist, writer, university teacher
Employer	Leiden University (1991–2003) University of Manchester (1970–1980) University of Melbourne (1980–1991)
Awards	Burkitt Medal (2017) emeritus (2003) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1984)

Takamitsu Muraoka (村岡 崇光, Muraoka Takamitsu, born 1938 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese Semiticist.^[1] He was Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1991 to 2003 and is most notable for his studies of Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics and the ancient translations of the Bible, notably of the Septuagint.