Judah Segal

Education

• Magdalen College School, Oxford
• St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. Jarrett Scholar, 1932; John Stewart of Rannoch Scholar in Hebrew, 1933; 1st Class Oriental Langs Tripos, 1935; Tyrwhitt Scholar and Mason Prizeman, 1936. BA, 1935, MA 1938; DPhil 1939.
• Colours, Cambridge University Boxing Club, 1935, 1936.

Career

• Mansel Research Exhibitioner, St. John's College, Oxford, 1936–39; James Mew Scholar, 1937.
• Deputy Assistant Director, Public Security, Sudan Government, 1939–41
• Served in World War II, GHQ, MEF, 1942–44, Captain; Education Officer, British Military Administration, Tripolitania, 1945–46. He was awarded a Military Cross in 1942.
• School of Oriental and African Studies from 1946; Head of Department of Near and Middle East, 1961–68; Professor 1961–79, then Emeritus Professor; Honorary Fellow 1983.
• Visiting Lecturer, Ain Shams University, Cairo, 1979
• Research Fellow, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1980
• Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, South India, 1981

Involvement in Jewish community

• Principal, Leo Baeck College, 1982–85; President, 1985-2003
• Member, Council of Christians and Jews
• President: North Western Reform Synagogue
• President: British Association for Jewish Studies, 1980
• Vice-president, Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, 1985–91

Honours

• Fellow of the British Academy, 1968
• Freedom, City of Urfa, Turkey, 1973

Publications

• The Diacritical Point and the Accents in Syriac, 1953
• The Hebrew Passover, 1963
• The Sabian Mysteries. The planet cult of ancient Harran, Vanished Civilizations, 1963
• Edessa, 'the blessed city', 1970
• Aramaic Texts From North Saqqara, 1983
• A History of the Jews of Cochin, 1993
• Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum, 2000
• Whisper Awhile, 2000
• Articles in learned periodicals.