April 3, 2014: Dr. Avraham Gileadi

“Turning the Hearts of the Jews to the Prophets and the Prophets to the Jews”

Dr. Abraham Gileadi is a Hebrew scholar and literary analyst and longtime member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Dr. Gileadi's Bio:

Avraham Gileadi was born in the Netherlands in 1940. During World War II, his father’s underground organization helped a New Zealand pilot escape to England. This led to the family’s emigrating to New Zealand in 1950. In 1968, Avraham Gileadi emigrated to Israel, where he learned Hebrew, attended Yeshivat Hatfutzot, a rabbinical school in Jerusalem, and learned Jewish analytical methods.

He was baptized LDS in 1972 in the Pool of Siloam after having read the Book of Mormon, which he found in a kibbutz library.

After living five years in Israel, becoming acquainted with Hebrew and the local culture, he moved to the United States, married, and raised a family of nine children.

He taught Hebrew, the Old and New Testaments, and an honors class in the literary analysis of Isaiah at BYU during the years 1973–1981.

He graduated in 1981 with a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies under the tutelage of Professor Roland. K. Harrison of Wycliffe College in Toronto, with Professor Hugh Nibley as chairman.

For his Ph.D. thesis, he analyzed a complex literary structure in the Book of Isaiah that radically impacts the book’s interpretation. He also translated the Book of Isaiah into modern English, with annotations from the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah and the Septuagint Version, and published it with analyses of Isaiah’s literary patterns discovered during a decade of post-doctoral research.

 He has published ten books on the Book of Isaiah and on related subjects that teach Jewish analytical methods and help those who desire it to understand the words of Isaiah.