About Željko Stanojević

Željko Stanojević is a Serbian-Israeli Hebrew linguist, biblical philologist, lexicographer, translator, and scholar of Semitic languages based in Belgrade, Serbia. Željko Stanojević is a Serbian-Israeli Hebraist and one of the leading specialists in Hebrew language and biblical philology in Southeast Europe. He is President of the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the European Hebrew Journal (EHJ), and a host on the New Books Network Biblical Studies channel. His principal fields of research include Biblical and Modern Hebrew, Semitic linguistics, Hebrew lexicography, biblical philology, Bible translation, biblical and Semitic onomastics, historical linguistics, etymology, textual criticism, Qumran and Dead Sea Scrolls studies, and the historical transmission of Hebrew words and names into Greek, Latin, Slavic, and other European languages.

His major reference work is Onomastikon biblijskih imena (Onomasticon of Biblical Names), an extensive linguistic, historical, philological, and etymological study of biblical personal names. His principal lexicographical publications include Hebrejsko-srpski rečnik (Hebrew–Serbian Dictionary) and Srpsko-hebrejski i hebrejsko-srpski rečnik (Serbian–Hebrew and Hebrew–Serbian Dictionary). These works form part of his broader contribution to Hebrew studies, bilingual lexicography, biblical terminology, and the transmission of Hebrew vocabulary into Serbian.

Stanojević is also the author of Kumranski spisi: dokaz verodostojnosti Biblije (The Qumran Scrolls: Evidence for the Reliability of the Bible) and Kumranski spisi, Tom 2: Tajna Isaijinog svitka (The Qumran Scrolls, Volume 2: The Secret of the Isaiah Scroll). His continuing research on the Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran (1QIsaa) examines its orthography, scribal practices, textual variants, linguistic features, and translation, with the aim of producing a detailed column-by-column philological analysis of the manuscript.

Among his other major publications are Sveto pismo ili Biblija Starog i Novog zaveta: novi savremeni prevod (The Holy Scriptures or the Bible of the Old and New Testaments: A New Contemporary Translation), Jevanđelje po Mateju: prevod sa hebrejskog na srpski jezik (The Gospel of Matthew: A Translation from Hebrew into Serbian), and O jeziku Srba i Jevreja: trojako prisustvo Jevreja među Slovenima – međusobni uticaji severozapadnih semitskih i slovenskih jezika (On the Language of Serbs and Jews: The Threefold Presence of Jews among the Slavs and the Mutual Influence of Northwest Semitic and Slavic Languages).

His current research focuses especially on Hebrew and Semitic personal names, theophoric name formations, Hebrew–Slavic linguistic contacts, the discourse functions of Biblical Hebrew verbal forms, the language and textual history of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the philological interpretation of biblical words and expressions. His work combines linguistic, epigraphic, manuscript, historical, archaeological, and comparative evidence, with particular emphasis on distinguishing documented language history from traditional, popular, or theological interpretations.

As Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the European Hebrew Journal, Stanojević is actively engaged in international scholarly publishing and diamond open-access research. EHJ publishes peer-reviewed scholarship in Hebrew linguistics, Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew Bible studies, Semitic studies, textual criticism, philology, Jewish studies, Dead Sea Scrolls research, archaeology, history, literature, theology, and translation studies. Through the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, the European Hebrew Journal, and the New Books Network, he promotes international academic cooperation and the wider accessibility of research in Hebrew, biblical, Jewish, and Semitic studies. Contact e mail: office[at]hebrew.edu.rs

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0717-6184