Term:
Academic Year,
2024-2025
Contact:
irosenzvi@fas.harvard.edu
Courses:
Spring 2025:
JEWISHST 211 / HDS 1672: Israel’s Chosenness: Ancient Roots and Modern Manifestations
Fall 2024:
JEWISHST 208: Invention and Development of Jewish Law (halakhah)
JEWISHST 211: Israel’s Chosenness: Ancient Roots and Modern Manifestations
Ishay Rosen-Zvi
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Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel Aviv University
Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer of Jewish Studies:
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,
Center for Jewish Studies Starr Fellow
Professor Ishay Rosen-Zvi teaches rabbinic literature and is the Chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel-Aviv University. He has written on Midrash and Mishnah, as well as on issues of self-formation and collective identity in Second-Temple Judaism, Early Christianity and rabbinic literature. Among his publications are: Demonic Desires: YETZER HARA and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia 2011); Body and Soul in Ancient Judaism (Modan: Tel Aviv 2012); The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual: Temple Gender and Midrash (Brill: Leiden 2012); Goy: Israel’s Others and the Birth of the Gentile (with Adi Ophir) (Oxford 2018); Between Mishnah and Midrash: The Birth of Rabbinic Literature (Open University 2019); The Secret Life of the Jewish Holidays(Kineret 2023); and The Babylonian Talmud and the formation of the Study House, with Yakov Z. Meir (Magness forthcoming). As a Starr Fellow, he will work on a monograph on the topic: “Mishnah and/as Roman Law: Questioning a New Paradigm.”