Takamitsu Muraoka

Takamitsu Muraoka was a Japanese Semiticist and scholar of Hebrew, Aramaic, and the Septuagint. He held the chair of Hebrew Language and Culture, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University from 1991 to 2003 and died on 10 February 2026, one day after his 88th birthday.