Vladimir Olivero

Departmental Lecturer in Early Judaism and Christianity
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies \ Wolfson College
vladimir.olivero@ames.ox.ac.uk
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Biography

Vladimir Olivero was Preceptor in Classical Hebrew at Harvard University between 2024 and 2026. Before that, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the Università per Stranieri di Siena, the University of Cambridge, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem. 

Research Interests

Semitic languages, Hebrew Bible, Textual criticism, Septuagint and its daughter versions, Northwest Semitic epigraphy, Assyriology 

Current Projects

  • 'A Grammar of Late Biblical Hebrew' (NEH-BSF joint grant - former PI, now collaborator)
  • Co-editor for Genesis (Hebrew Bible Critical Editions); Collaborator for 1 Kings (Hebrew Bible Critical Editions); Jubilees, an Ethiopic Reader's Edition (SBL Press); A Grammar of Phoenician (SBL Press)
  • Jewish and Christian Arabic Translations of the Hebrew Bible (THB Handbook of Languages and Linguistics - Brill)

Courses Taught

Intermediate and Advanced Biblical Hebrew; History and Literature of Ancient Israel; Septuagint; Ugaritic; Phoenician 

Educational Background

Vladimir Olivero holds a BA (2014) and MA (2016) in Classics from the University of Milan and an MSt in Classical Hebrew Studies (2017) from the University of Oxford, where he also completed his DPhil in Oriental Studies in 2022 with a dissertation on the relationship between textual criticism and Biblical Hebrew diachrony.