Christophe Rico

Linguist Christophe Rico has a doctorate in ancient Greek and holds the French official accreditation to direct PhD research. Member of the Faculty of the University of Strasbourg, he is Professor of Greek Philology at the Ecole Biblique of Jerusalem. Since 2011, he is the dean of the Polis Institute at Jerusalem. where ancient languages (Greek, Latin, biblical Hebrew, Syriac, Coptic, classical Arabic) are taught through full immersion as living languages according to the “Polis method”. He has authored two monographs on Greek and Hebrew semantics and four language method books, coedited four academic conferences and written some sixty articles on linguistics, Greek language, and language pedagogy.