• Identity: she/her
  • Position: Professor of Rabbinics
  • School: Hebrew College, Boston
  • Jane Kanarek is Professor of Rabbinics and Dean of Faculty at Hebrew College. She is the author of Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law. She is the editor, along with Marjorie Lehman, of Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens and Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination. Her second monograph, on Bavli Sotah, is forthcoming from Brandeis University Press.

  • Abstract: Lashon Ha-ra and Talmudic Redaction: B. Sotah 34b-35a and B. Arakhin 15a-16b