Publications
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Some Jewish Women in Antiquity
(2020)
This book sets out to characterize different types of Jewish women in Eretz-Israel over an extended period of more than a thousand years, from the biblical period to the time of the Mishnah and Talmud. This is a study in ...
The Law of Jealousy
(2020)
This book applies anthropological insights to the understanding of an ancient and puzzling ritual, that of the sotah, or suspected adulteress. The ritual, initiated by a suspicious husband, was first described in Numbers ...
Kol Nidre
(2020)
This book is an introduction to the laws of oaths and vows of various types as they appear in biblical, Second Temple, and rabbinic sources. These institutions developed over time, and the oaths and vows mentioned in Second ...
Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue
This book argues that women served as leaders in a number of synagogues during the Roman and Byzantine periods. The evidence for this consists of nineteen Greek and Latin inscriptions in which women bear the titles "head ...
The Priestly Gift of Mishnah
(2020)
This study systematically analyzes Tractate Terumot (heave-offerings) in the Mishnah and its corresponding document, the Tosefta. It provides a new translation of and commentary on Terumot and considers the shape and message ...