Richard C. Steiner (born 1945) is a Semitist and a scholar of Northwest Semitic languages, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern texts.

He is now retired from his position as professor of Semitics at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University in New York City.

[4] In 2007 Steiner gave a lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in which he announced that he had deciphered linguistically Semitic spells in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts from the mid-third millennium BC.

[8] In July 2010 he was invited to give the plenary address at the annual conference of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

[9] His brother was Mark Steiner, Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew University, who died from the coronavirus in 2020.