Labendz, Jenny

Jenny Labendz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Francis College in Brooklyn, NY, where she has taught since 2018. She completed her PhD at JTS in 2010 and is the author of Socratic Torah: Non-Jews in Rabbinic Intellectual Culture (Oxford, 2013). Her second book, Beyond Hope: Rabbinic Eschatology of Late Antiquity in Comparative Perspective, is forthcoming with Oxford in 2025.