MONY ALMALECH is a professor at the New Bulgarian University and a guest professor at the Institute for Bulgarian Language with Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Over the years, taught at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgarian Evangelical Theological Institute, Sofia Technical University. His development was influenced by a two-year specialization with Professor Dimitri Segal at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1993-94).
His scientific interests are in the field of the Bulgarian language, Theoretical Linguistics, Hebraic studies and Semiotics. He created the first Hebrew-Bulgarian Dictionary (2004; 2-d ed. 2011). His knowledge of Hebrew has allowed him to analyse the original text of the Bible in comparison with various translations, applying the tools of traditional and modern linguistics. The first volume of his Biblical Hermeneutic project, Color in the Torah, was published in 2006 and the second one appeared in 2010 – The Light in the Old Testament. The interdisciplinary analysis of color is a distinctive feature of his works on color in folklore, literature, Bible and advertising: Balkan Folk Color Language (1996); Color and Word: Psycholinguistic and Pragmatic Aspects (2001); Roots: The Semiotics of Color (2006); The Language of Color (2007); Advertisements: Signs of femininity and their corresponding color meanings (2011). His first monograph back in 1993 was on Bulgarian grammar, and he has never abandoned the subject: Language and Idiolect: The Language of Bulgarian Jews in Israel (2006), Companion to General Linguistics (2000, 2-d ed. 2012).
Biblical donkey was published first in Bulgarian in 2011.
