Donna Shalev (born 15 April 1964) is an American Israeli philologist and linguist. As of 2011, she is a senior lecturer at the Classics Department of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she teaches Greek and Latin languages and literature, and conducts research on transfer of Greek culture and texts into Arabic language and Islamic culture; Greek and Arabic medical literature as belles lettres; translation technique of the physician Hunayn ibn Ishaq; Plato and Greek dialogue literature; and Adab literature and its dialogal elements, as well as composition and embedding of belles-lettristic sources, in particular derived from Greek culture (platonic and hermetic material), in technical texts such as the 10th-century Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa, and philosophical texts such as ps.ibn-sina's 'qissat salaman wa-absal'.
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15 April 1964 (age 61)
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