Joanna Homrighausen (PhD, Religion, Duke University) writes and teaches on sacred words, sacred texts, and how individuals and communities reproduce, ritualize, and revere them through lettering arts and scribal crafts. Her recent dissertation, Writing Esther, unpacks the materiality of the Esther scroll in Judaism and shows how Jews have used the written artifact to think through pivotal theological questions raised by the Book of Esther. She currently teaches Biblical Hebrew and Judaic Studies at the College of William & Mary.

Rabbi Dr. Richard Hidary is a professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva University and a rabbi at Sephardic Synagogue. He is the author of Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud (Brown University Press, 2010) and Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Currently, he is writing a literary and philosophical commentary on Talmudic discussions of Jewish holidays. His Daf Yomi classes are accessible at YouTube.com/rhidary and he also runs the websites teachtorah.org, pizmonim.org, and rabbinics.org.

Matthew Goldstone is the Assistant Academic Dean and Assistant Professor at the Academy for Jewish Religion, where he teaches advanced courses in Talmud and Codes. He is the author of The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke: Leviticus 19:17 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation and co-author of Binding Fragments of Tractate Temurah and the Problem of Lishana Aharina. He is currently working on a book about the antitheses section of the Gospel of Matthew and tannaitic literature, and is also beginning an exploration of the nature of rewriting in the rabbinic period.

Danny is a PhD candidate in Ancient Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He earned a BA in Greek and Latin from UCLA and a Postbaccalaureate in Classics from UCLA. His research centers on the ways the rabbis of late antiquity use Greek words in their literature with a particular focus on the creative potential of non-native speakers. Danny's dissertation argues that it is productive to understand rabbinic Greek as a xenophonic Greek dialect. Danny has taught Biblical Greek at Union Theological Seminary, Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Literature Humanities at Columbia University.