Rutgers Rabbinics Conference 2025

Shmidman, Shira

  • Identity: she/her
  • Position: Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies
  • School: Open University, Israel

  • Shira Shmidman is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University, Israel. She completed her PhD at Bar Ilan University in 2020, and her research focuses on the development of conceptual thinking in Rabbinic literature, as well as the textual traditions of the Tosefta.
  • Abstract: Margin Notes as the Key to Discovering the History of the Erfurt Manuscript of the Tosefta