2007-2008 Program
JEWISH AND OTHER IMPERIAL CULTURES IN LATE ANTIQUITY:
LITERARY, SOCIAL, AND MATERIAL HISTORIES

	Name		Area of Research
	William Adler                       North Carolina State University Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship		Christians in the Court of Abgar the Great
	Doron Bar (F) Hebrew University Weiner Family Term Fellowship		Rural Churches/Synagogues in Late Antiquity Palestine
	Beth Berkowitz Jewish Theological Seminary/NY; Louis Apfelbaum and Hortense Apfelbaum Fellowship		Identity in Jewish Reading: Leviticus 18:3 and the “Laws of the Gentiles”
	Ra’anan Boustan University of California/L.A. Maurice Amado Foundation Fellowship		Representations of Rome in Late Antiquity Jewish Literature
	Hannah Cotton (S) Hebrew University Albert J. Wood Fellowship		Inscriptions of the Ustinow Collection from Turkish Palestine
	Paula Fredriksen (S) Boston University Selma Ruben Term Fellowship		Christian Anti-Judaism in Visigothic and Byzantine Empires
	Campbell Grey (F) University of Pennsylvania Moses Aaron Dropsie Term Fellowship		Charity to Strangers, Conversion, and Late Antiquity Urban Communities
	Yuval Harari  (S) Ben-Gurion University Primo Levi Fellowship Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship		Power in Context: Early Jewish Magic and its Social, Political, and Intercultural Matrix
	Marc Hirshman (F) Hebrew University Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellowship Ivan and Nina Ross Family Term Fellowship		Aggada in Caesarea: Stratifying Aggadic Midrash
	Oded Irshai (S) Hebrew University Golub Family Fellowship Rose and Henry Zifkin Teaching Fellowship		Jews, Christians, and the End of Mediterranean Antiquity: West and East
	Hayim Lapin University of Maryland Primo Levi Fellowship		Rabbis as Provincial: Rabbinic Movement in Palestine
	Lee Levine (F) Hebrew University Ella Darivoff Term Fellowship		History, Art, and Identity in Late Antiquity
	Joshua Levinson (S) Hebrew University Rebell Family Term Fellowship		Border Transgression: Travel Narratives in Rabbinic Literature
	Ophir Münz-Manor (F) Brown University David and Penina Zoller Term Fellowship		The Sacred Muse: Poetic Dialogues in Late Antiquity
	Hindy Najman (S) University of Toronto Ruth Meltzer Distinguished Fellowship		Prophetic Ends: Destruction and Revelation in Ancient Judaism Recent news: The 'Goal of the Scroll': To Learn How to Survive
	Annette Reed University of Pennsylvania Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship		“Jewish-Christianity” and the History of Late Antique Judaism
	John Reeves (F) Univ. of North Carolina/Charlotte Ruth Meltzer Distinguished Fellowship		Reception and Reconfiguration of Jewish Lore in Early Islamic Traditions
	Seth Schwartz Jewish Theological Seminary/NY Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowsh		Were the Ancient Jews a Mediterranean Society?
	Hagith Sivan University of Kansas Martin Gruss Fellowship		Jews of the Latin West
	Rina Talgam Hebrew University Louis and Bessie Stein Fellowship		Jewish Art among Gentile Art of Late Antiquity: A Cultural Exchange
	ADJUNCT FELLOWS
	John Gager Princeton University Maxine Grossman University of Maryland		Robert Kraft University of Pennsylvania Martha Himmelfarb Princeton University
	Ross Kraemer Brown University		David Stern University of Pennsylvania
	SHORT TERM FELLOWS
	Hillel Newman University of Haifa February Adiel Shremer Bar-Ilan University April		Yaakov Elman Yeshiva University Albert Baumgarten January-February