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Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Chairman, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Ph.D. 1974 (Near Eastern and Judaic studies), M.A. and B.A. 1970 (Near Eastern and Judaic studies), Brandeis.
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Research Interests: Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature.
Affiliations: Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, member Board of Directors
Fellow, American Academy for Jewish Research
Association for Jewish Studies (Vice President for Publications)
International Organization for Qumran Studies
Israel Exploration Society
Jewish Law Association
Society of Biblical Literature (have served on Editorial Board and as chairman, Qumran Section)
University Seminar for the Study of the Hebrew Bible, Columbia University
University Seminar on Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University
World Union of Jewish Studies (member of the council)
Corresponding Fellow, Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Fellowships/Honors: Visiting Crane Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 1996; Shoshana Shier Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, 1996; Fellow, Annenberg Research Institute (now Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania), 1992-1993; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1989-1990; Visiting Professor: Yale University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Duke University, and the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.
Selected Works:
Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. 1994.
From Text to Tradition, A History of Judaism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Times. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav. 1989.
Who Was a Jew? Rabbinic and Halakhic Perspectives on the Jewish-Christian Schism. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav. 1985.
Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Courts, Testimony, and the Penal Code. California: Scholars Press. 1983.
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