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Following his undergraduate studies in Berlin, Vollandt received an MA in Arabic from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he wrote a thesis under the direction of Prof. Simon Hopkins on “The Transmission of the Judeao-Arabic Pentateuch Translation of Rav Saadiah Gaon” (soon to be published by E. J. Brill). He went on to take his PhD from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Geoffrey Khan, with a thesis on “Christian-Arabic translations of the Pentateuch from the 9th—13th centuries.” While at Cambridge, he taught Biblical Hebrew and worked at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the University Library. Vollandt was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Oxford Centre of Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 2011 and at the CNRS Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes in Paris in 2011—2012. He is the author of several articles, all focused on the various aspects of the translation, transmission and study of the Bible in Arabic, and the forthcoming book “The Torah in the language of the Ishmaelites.” Saadiah's Tafsir between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.