MA in Philology, Moscow State University, 1981.
Ph.D. in History, Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, 1994.
During the 1980s and early 1990s he was engaged in the New Testament research. Since mid-nineties the principal field of his teaching and research have been Semitic languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic.
Since 1992 he has been engaged in teaching and research at the Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow), at present he is an Associate Professor for Semitic Philology at that University. He is a co-editor of the "Annual for Biblical Studies" published by his institution in Russian.
Among his works (in Russian, if not indicated otherwise) are:
The Canonical Gospels: An Introduction. - in: "Canonical Gospels" (Moscow, 1992). - P.5-78.
The Central Themes in the Interpretation of the Gospel of Mark. Ibid., p.116-134.
The Gospel of Mark: A New Translation and a Commentary (Moscow, 1994), 96 p.
The Theology of Rudolf Bultmann. - in: Voprosy filosofii [Philosophical Monthly], Moscow, 1992. Vol. 11, p.71-85.
The School of the History of Religions in the New Testament Reasearch. - in: Voprosy filosofii [Philosophical Monthly], Moscow 1994. Vol. 12, p.135-152.
History and Hermeneutics in the Study of the New Testament (Moscow, 1996), 375 p. The Syntax of the Hebrew Narrative and the Syntax of the Gospel of Mark. - in: Annual for Biblical Studies. Moscow, 1998. Vol 1, p. 280-298.
Text-Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew. - in: Annual for Biblical Studies. Moscow, 1998. Vol 1, p.187-217. (with J. Eidelkind) "SI VERA LECTIO: The Syntax of the Speech of Narrator in the Biblical Hebrew Prose." - in: Annual for Biblical Studies. Moscow, 1999. Vol 2, 117-260.
Notes on the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew Dialogue. - in: Annual for Biblical Studies. Moscow, 1998. Vol 2, 261-360.
Essays in Understanding: Selected Works. Moscow/St.-Petersburg, 1999, 575 p.
A Midrash on Abraham in the Roemerbrief. - in: Annual for Biblical Studies. Moscow, 1999. Vol 3, 342-369. YQTL in Autocommentary. - in: Annual for Biblical Studies. Moscow, 2001. Vol 4, 125-132.
ARM X 4: A Commentary. - in: Festschrift Militarev (Moscow, 2003, in English).
Old Aramaic. Forthcoming in: Languages of the World: The Semitic Languages. (Moscow) Classical Syriac. Forthcoming ibidem.

(born 26. 8. 1969)
1987–1992 studies at the Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Prague (Assyriology and New Persian).
October 1992 to August 1993 study at the Westphälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster (study of Akkadian, Sumerian, Urartian, Hurrian and Ugaritic languages, data input of Old Assyrian texts into computer).
1993-1998 graduate student at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, Ph.D. thesis Taxes in the Old Babylonian Letters.
since 1998 research fellow of the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
since 1999 gives lectures on the history, economy and society of the Ancient Near East at the West Bohemian University Pilsen.

Selected bibliography:

– "Das Amt des šassukkum in der altbabylonischen Zeit", in: Archív orientální 67 (1999), pp. 51–71.

– "Die igisum-Abgabe in den altbabylonischen Quellen", in: Archív orientální 69 (2001), pp. 1–20.

– Nea Nováková, Lukáš Pecha, Furat Rahman, Dějiny Mezopotámie(History of Mesopotamia), Prague 1998. 266 pp. (ISBN 80-7184-416-0).

– Nea Nováková, Lukáš Pecha, Furat Rahman, Základy starobabylonštiny (Foundations of the Old Babylonian Language), Prague 2000. 416 pp. (ISBN 80-7184-997-9).

Author of Stručná gramatika urartejštiny (Concise Grammar of Urartu language, Enigma Corporation, Prague 1994, 92 p., ISBN 80-901704-2-0).

(born 1967)
1986-1992 studies at the Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Prague (Arabic studies, Assyriology and New Persian)
1992 M.A. thesis Proper Names in the Old Babylonian Letters. During his study data input of the Old Babylonian letters into computer as well as other active work in the computer field (two years practice in the Computer Laboratory of the Faculty of Arts)
1992–98 assistant, later scientific assistant of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies.
October 1992 to July 1993 study at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (further study of Akkadian and Sumerian languages, data input of Sumerian texts into computer).
In 1993-1998 graduate student at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, Ph.D. thesis Abbreviated Anthroponyma in Old Babylonian.
since 2001 teaches Akkadian and Sumerian languages and literatures at the West Bohemian University Pilsen.
2001 member of the Prague linguistic circle.

Participation in international conferences (Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Berlín 1994, Praha 1996), Use of Computers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Praha 1993, 1998).

Selected bibliography:

– Sumerische Lesestücke. Ein Versuch der Hypertext-Bearbeitung auf dem CD-ROM Datenträger, Prague 1996. (ISBN 80-902019-0-3)

– Nea Nováková, Lukáš Pecha, Furat Rahman, Dějiny Mezopotámie (History of Mesopotamia), Prague 1998. 266 pp. (ISBN 80-7184-416-0).

– Nea Nováková, Lukáš Pecha, Furat Rahman, Základy starobabylonštiny (Foundations of the Old Babylonian Language), Prague 2000. 416 pp. (ISBN 80-7184-997-9).

Student of the 2nd year study program Near Eastern Studies (started 2004).

1956-1961 studied in the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University (Arabic and Cuneiform)
1966 candidate of art sciences (Terres cultes de Tell Erfad, Prague 1971, Vol. 1-2, 166, 163 pages), since 1965 assistant lecturer.

Lecturer at the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies for ANE languages (especially Akkadian).

Her published works include: Zur Graphik der Gesetze Hammurabis. Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Philologica 4, Orientalia Pragensia XI, Prague 1984, page 7-44 (with the late Prof. Vladimír Souček). Die akkadischen Verbalwurzeln und das akkadische Verbum vom statistischen Gesichtspunkt. In: Šulmu, Papers on the Ancient Near East presented at International Conference of Socialist Countries, Charles University,Prague 1988, page 235-239.

Die Graphik der Gesetze Hammurabis in einer statistischen Analyse. In: Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Memorial Volume of Karel Petráček, Vol. II, Prague 1996, 52 pages.

In Czech:

Author of the textbook "Arabs before Islam", Prague 1969, co-author of the textbook "Introduction into Cuneiform and Babylonian", Prague 1980 and 1984, Vol. 1-2, 350 + 218 pages. Also author of book Mesopotamian Hills, Prague 1994, 87 pages.

Mrs. Nováková contributed to following books written in Czech language:
Nováková N., Pecha L., Rahman F., History of Mesopotamia. Prague 1998. Praha. 250 p. and in 1998 to the book: Nováková N.,Pecha L., Rahman F., Foundations of Old Babylonian, Prague 2000. 416 pages.

Graduated 2003 from the West Bohemian University in Pilsen, Faculty of Humanities, in the Cultural Anthropology of the Near East. M.A. thesis: Neo-Assyrian Empire, its Beginning, Development and Inner Structure.
In 2004-2006 taught Akkadian language and history of great empires of the Ancient Near East at the West Bohemian University Pilsen.
Since 2003 Ph.D. student at Protestant Theological Faculty of the Charles University in Prague.

Nathan Wasserman, Ph.D. (1993) in Assyriology, the Hebrew University Jerusalem, is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Assyriology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Contributed by his reading of OB Tell al-Rimah tablets (edition: S. Dalley, C.B.F. Walker and J.D. Hawkins, The Old Babylonian Tablets from Tell Al Rimah, British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1976).

Technical support of OBTC.
Graduated 2006 from the West Bohemian University in Pilsen, Faculty of Applied Sciences, in Informatics.