Takamitsu Muraoka

Takamitsu Muraoka
村岡 崇光
Born(1938-02-09)9 February 1938
Hiroshima, Japan
Died10 February 2026(2026-02-10) (aged 88)
EducationDoctor of Philosophy
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
OccupationsLinguist, hebraist, writer, university teacher
Employer(s)Leiden University (1991–2003)
University of Manchester (1970–1980)
University of Melbourne (1980–1991)
AwardsFellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1984)
Burkitt Medal (2017)

Takamitsu Muraoka (村岡 崇光, Muraoka Takamitsu; 9 February 1938 – 10 February 2026) was a Japanese Semitist. 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.

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