Zipora Cochavi-Rainey

During her army service years, when she was stationed in the military headquarter complex of the Israel Defense Forces, Cochavi Rainey enrolled in Tel Aviv University and worked toward her B.A.

Her thesis, mentored by Professor Raphael Kutscher, dealt with a linguistic analysis of the Akkadian dialect of Egyptian scribes’ letters which were discovered in El-Amarna archive.

Her dissertation, mentored by Sumerologist and Assyriologist, Prof. Raphael Kutcher and Egyptologist, Prof. Mordechai Gilula, was titled: The Akkadian Dialect of Egyptian Scribes in the 14th and the 13th centuries B.C.E.

Her scholarly books and articles deal primarily with the linguistic and stylistic-linguistic aspects of ancient Middle Eastern written texts, cuneiform and hieroglyphics in particular, and with modern Hebrew literature.

Together with her husband, Professor Anson Rainey, Cochavi-Rainey has dealt extensively with the El Amarna letters, the correspondence between the King of Egypt and peoples of the region, from the middle of the 14th and 13th centuries B.C.E.