An offer by Isaac Wolfson, British Jewish businessman, to underwrite the publication of a “Manchester Journal of Semitic Studies” has been accepted by Manchester University, it was announced today. Mr. Wolfson offered to underwrite the sum of 2,000 pounds for an initial seven-year period of publication.
The journal will appear quarterly under the imprint of the University’s press and the Isaac Wolfson Foundation and will contain scholarly articles covering the whole field of Semitic studies. It will be edited by Prof. H. Rowley and P. R. Weis, who is the Nathan Laski Senior Lecturer in Post-Biblical Studies at Manchester University.
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