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Skirball Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics;
Ph.D. 1992 (religion), Columbia; M.A. 1987 (Talmud and Rabbinics), Jewish Theological Seminary; B.A. 1985 (Religion), Oberlin.
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Research Interests: Rabbinic literature, ancient Judaism, Jewish law, Jewish ethics, history of religions.
Affiliations: Society of Biblical Literature; American Academy of Religion; Association of Jewish Studies.
Selected Works:
The Culture of The Babylonian Talmud. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Rabbinic Stories. Classics in Western Spirituality Series: Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. 2002.
Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. (Finalist in 1999 National Jewish Book Awards, Scholarship Division).
The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods. Atlanta: Scholars Press. 1995.
The Bavli's Ethic of Shame
Bavli Gittin 55B-56B: An Aggadic Narrative in Its Halakhik Context Context and Genre: Elements of a Literary Approach to the Rabbinic Narrative Criteria of Stammaitic Intervention in Aggada
Cultic Themes in Sukkot Piyyutim
Elisha ben Abuya: Torah and the Sinful Sage
An Eschatological Drama: Bavli Avoda Zarah 2a-3b
Ethics and the Liturgy of Conservative Judaism
From Mythic Motifs to Sustained Myth: The Revision of Rabbinic Traditions in Medieval Midrashim
The Laws of Heaven in Sefer Hasidim
Mythic Time and The Festival Cycle
Nominalism and Realism in Qumranic and Rabbinic Law: A Reassessment
Purim, Liminality, and Communitas
The Sadducees and the Water Libation
Siddur Sim Shalom and Developing Conservative Theology
Social and Institutional Settings of Rabbinic Literature
Some Structural Patterns of Yerushalmi Sugyot
The Sukka as Temporary or Permanent Dwelling: A Study in the Development of Talmudic Thought
Sukkot, Eschatology and Zechariah 14
The Sukkot Wine Libation
The Symbolism of the Sukkah
The Symbolism of the Sukka (Part 2)
The Talmud Expression "Rabbi X, following his reasoning said"
The Thematization of Dialectics in Bavli Aggada
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