2001-2002 Program
BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION IN A COMPARATIVE CONTEXT:
JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, ISLAMIC

Name
Area of Research

Adele Berlin
University of Maryland
Betty and Morris Shuch Fellow



Biblical Allusions in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Haggai Ben-Shammai (S)
Hebrew University
Maurice Amado Foundation Fellow

Exegesis in Transition: Between Homiletics
and Rationalist Exegesis

Robert Bonfil (S)
Hebrew University Walter and Roze Zifkin Teaching Fellow


Biblical Allusions in Joseph Hacohens' Historical Work

Mordechai Cohen (S)
Michael R. Steinhardt Fellow



Kimhi and Nahmanides on Scripture's Yeshiva University Moral Sense

Natalie Dohrmann (F)
Michael R. Steinhardt Fellow


The Anxiety of Identity: Analogical Reasoning North Carolina State University and the Rabbinic Negotiation of Rome
Jacob Elbaum
Louis and Bessie Stein Fellow

Biblical Exegesis in Late Midrashic Literature Hebrew University

Reuven Firestone (S)
Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles


Satan, Sin, and the Destiny of Humanity: The Garden Story in the Qur'an
Martin Jacobs
Hebrew University
Samuel Grunfeld Fellow
Biblical Exegesis in Jewish Polemics Against Islam
Sara Japhet
Hebrew University
Herbert and Ellie Katz Distinguished Fellow Nancy and Laurence Glick Teaching Fellow

The Song of Songs in Medieval Northern France Peshat Exegesis
Tamar Kadari
Hebrew University
Redaction and Polemic: Origen and the Rabbis on the Song of Songs Rabbah
Deeana Klepper (S)
Boston University
Lucius N. Littauer Fellow
From Exegesis to Polemic: Nicholas of Lyra's Use of Jewish Text and his Anti-Jewish Writing
Naomi Koltun-Fromm (F)
Haverford College
Lucius N. Littauer Fellow

Aphrahat's Hermeneutics of Holiness: Body, Sexuality and Religious Identity in the Late Ancient Near East
Tzvi Langermann (F)
Bar Ilan University
Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellow

Exegesis in Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed and its Yemeni Commentators
Joseph Lowry (S)
New York University

The Qur'an in Early Islamic Law
Stefan Reif (F)
Cambridge University
Maurice Amado Foundation Fellow
Medieval Jewish Commentators on Numbers 13
Daniel Sheerin (F)
University of Notre Dame
Biblical Typology in Patristic Literature
Michael Signer (S)
University of Notre Dame
Ella Darivoff Fellow

Biblical Interpretation and the Search for the Literal Sense by 12th Century Jews and Christians
Peter Stallybrass
University of Pennsylvania
Moses Aaron Dropsie Fellow
  Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible
Barbara von Schlegell (F)
University of Pennsylvania
Ella Darivoff Fellow
Hagar, Mother of Islam: Readings of Genesis
Megan Williams
Oberlin College
Martin Gruss Fellow
Rabbinic Exegesis in Jerome's Commentaries on the Prophets
 
SHORT-TERM FELLOWS
Jeremy Cohen (Feb)
Tel Aviv University
Moshe Idel (March)
Hebrew University
Shira Wolosky (Nov)
 
MosheHalbertal (Sept-Oct)
Hebrew University
 
ADJUNCT FELLOWS
Adiel Kadari
Beit Morasha, Jerusalem
 
Michael Carasik
University of Pennsylvania