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Sarah Israelit Groll

1925 – 2007

Israeli egyptologist

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Lived 1925 – 2007 (aged 81–82). Sarah Israelit Groll was an Israeli linguist and egyptologist.

Sarah Israelit Groll (; 1925–2007) was an Israeli Egyptologist and linguist. She was born 1925 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. She studied at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, under Hans Jakob Polotsky, and at Oxford she studied Ramesside texts under Jaroslav Černý. She published her doctoral thesis On the problem of negative sentences in late Egyptian in 1963. In 1972 she founded the Department of Egyptology at the Hebrew University. She died on 16 December 2007. Groll's studies of the Late Egyptian verbal system deepened understanding of the ancient Egyptian language at this stage of its development.

Works Sarah Israelit-Groll, Negative Verbal System of Late Egyptian, Oxford University Press, 1967 Sarah Israelit-Groll, Egyptological Studies, 1983 Jaroslav Cerny, Sarah Israelit Groll, Christopher Eyre, A Late Egyptian Grammar, 1984, Sarah Israelit-Groll ed., Pharaonic Egypt: The Bible and Christianity, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1985 Sarah Israelit-Groll ed., Studies in Egyptology Presented to Miriam Lichtheim, The Magnes Press 1990, Marcel Sigrist, Sarah Israelit-Groll, Shalom M. Paul, B. Couroyer, Hans Jacob Polotsky, Krsysztof Modras, The Art of Love Lyrics : In Memory of Bernard Couroyer, OP and Hans Jacob Polotsky, First Egyptologists in Jerusalem, 2000

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1925
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Died
2007
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University of Oxford, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Who was Sarah Israelit Groll?

Israeli egyptologist

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Sarah Israelit Groll was born in 1925.

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Sarah Israelit Groll died in 2007.

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Sarah Israelit Groll was a linguist and egyptologist.

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Sarah Israelit Groll was Israeli.

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