Grace Park received her BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), her MA in The Bible and the Ancient Near East from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Rothberg International School), and her PhD in Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Before she started working as a research assistant in Semitic Studies at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2020, she taught and worked at the University of the Free State, South Africa, as a senior lecturer (2014-2017) and as a research assistant for the ERC project Babylonian Medicine - BabMed at the Free University of Berlin (2017-2018). She also taught as a Teaching Fellow (2018-2020) at the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, UK.

Courses in the winter semester 2023/24

Summer 2023

• (Lk) Biblical Aramaic
• (Lk) Semitische Philologie
• (S) Exploring ancient near Eastern culture through poetry and metaphor (EN) (with Cale Johnson)

Winter 2022/23

• (HS) From Biblical to Modern Aramaic
• (VS) Northwest Semitic Inscriptions (Semitische Philologie)
• (Mü) Vergleichende Semitistik

Sommer 2022

• Biblical Aramaic
• Semitische Philologie
• Northwest Semitic World

Winter 2021/22

• Comparative Semitics (Vergleichende Semitistik)
• Northwest Semitic Inscriptions (Semitische Philologie)

Sommer 2021

• Hebräisch als semitische Sprache
• (Lk) Semitische Philologie

Winter 2020/21

• (MÜ) Introductory Course on Ugaritic
• (VS) Northwest Semitic Inscriptions

·      Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic languages

·      Hebrew Bible

·      Linguistic typology and comparative Semitic philology

·      Scribal education in the ancient Near East

·      Ugaritic rituals and incantations 

Monographs:

• Park, Grace J. 2023. Focus Construction with kî ’im in Biblical Hebrew. Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic series. Eisenbrauns: University Park, PA.

Papers:

• Park, Grace J. 2017. “Rhetorical Question in Ruth 1:17b.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 43(1): 87–103.
• Park, Grace J. 2016. “Stand-Alone Nominalizations Formed with ’ăšer and kî in Biblical Hebrew.” Journal of Semitic Studies LXI/1 Spring: 41–65.
• Park, Grace J. 2015. “’ăšer from Light Noun to Nominalizer: Towards a Broader Typology of Clausal Nominalization in Biblical Hebrew.” Hebrew Studies 56: 23–48.
• Park, Grace J. 2013. “Polar ’im in Oaths and the Question of Literacy in Lachish 3.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 125(3): 463–478.
• Park, Grace J. 2007. “El’s Member in KTU 1.23. Ugarit-Forschungen 39: 617–627.

Reviews:

• Park, Grace J. 2008. Review of Gordon Hamilton’s The Origin of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts, CBQMS 40, 2006. Hebrew Studies 49: 317–319.

Translations:

• Park, Grace J. 2006. Korean translation of William Schniedewind’s How the Bible Became a Book (Cambridge, 2004), Eco-Livre, Seoul.