# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yairah-amit
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:11:07.219Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yairah-amit"
name: "Yairah Amit"
slug: "yairah-amit"
description: "Yairah Amit is an Israeli biblical scholar. Amit studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before doing a PhD at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Meir Sternberg. She is currently professor of biblical studies at Tel Aviv University. In 2012 a Festschrift was published in her honor. Words, Ideas, Worlds: Biblical Essays in Honour of Yairah Amit (ISBN 1-90753-450-4) included contributions from Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, and Yael Feldman."
tagline: "Israeli biblical scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yairah_Amit_2013.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1941-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           4.803924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.tau.ac.il/profile/ayairah"
sources:
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    title: "Yairah Amit"
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    title: "ییراح آمیت"
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    title: "יאירה אמית"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yairah Amit"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump