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Sela, Gal

  • Identity: she/her
  • Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
  • School: Beyond Canon: Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Regensburg
  • Dr. Gal Sela is a literature scholar focusing on the intersections of religious practices and mysticism in rabbinic literature. Her comparative research explores the figure of the holy man in both monastic and rabbinic traditions, as well as ascetic and theurgic practices in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship between magic and religion. Dr. Sela is a research fellow at Beyond Canon: Centre for Advanced Study, Universität Regensburg, where she contributes to studying para-canonical religious texts.

  • Abstract: Theorizing Rabbinic Folklore: The Miraculous Sleep of the Holy Man

Roszler, Isaac

  • Identity: he/his
  • Position: Doctoral Candidate
  • School: New York University
  • Isaac Roszler is a doctoral candidate in the Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies at New York University focusing on Talmud and Rabbinic literature. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, Isaac received a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His current research focuses on the development of narratives in the Babylonian Talmud.

  • Abstract: The Amazing Adventures of Rabbi Pinhas ben Yair

Pinchuk, Moshe

  • Position: Senior Lecturer
  • School: Netanya Academic College, Israel
  • Dr. Moshe Pinchuk`s areas of interest and research are: Talmud Yerushalmi and Comparative anthropology, in particular comparisons between Biblical and Rabbinic stories with parallels in Greek Mythology. Pinchuk has created an online Talmud Yerushalmi reference database which has gained recognition as a powerful and essential research tool. He is head of the Jewish Heritage center at Netanya Academic College; Adjunct lecturer at Bar-Ilan University; Head advisor to the Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin Museum in Lublin; Board member at Ganzach – Kiddush Hashem and has served as member of the regulatory and innovation team at MedyMatch Inc (Now MaxQ-AI).

  • Abstract: The Divine Nod: From Ambrosial Hair Locks to The Finest Incense

Mroczek, Eva

  • Identity: she/her
  • Position: Simon and Riva Spatz Chair in Jewish Studies
  • School: Dalhousie University
  • Eva Mroczek is Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies and the Simon and Riva Spatz Chair in Jewish Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her first book, The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity (OUP 2016), discussed how early Jews understood their own sacred texts before the Bible was conceptualized as a closed corpus. Her second book, Tales from the Cave: Losing and Finding the Biblical Past, is a study of ancient and modern manuscript discovery narratives as a religious genre.

  • Book: Tales from the Cave: Losing and Finding the Biblical Past

Mirotznik, Jesse

  • Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
  • School: Hebrew University
  • Jesse Mirotznik is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his PhD from Harvard University, where he studied the Hebrew Bible and its reception in ancient Jewish literature. His research focuses on how ancient Israelites and their Jewish successors imagined other religions. His book on this topic is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

  • Book: The Portrayal of Pagan Worship in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism
  1. Lehman, Marjorie
  2. Koller, Aaron
  3. Klapper, Tzipporah Machlah
  4. Kiesele, Eva

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