Moshe Shoshan teaches Rabbinic literature and general narrative studies in the Department of the Literature of the Jewish People. He is the author of Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah (Oxford, 2012) and numerous other studies on stories in rabbinic literature and the relationship between Halakhah and aggadah. His current work focuses the "Yavne Cycle " of narratives and traditions in rabbinic literature.