Areas of Research/Interest: Rabbinic literature, ancient Judaism, Jewish law, Jewish ethics, history of religions. External Affiliations: Society of Biblical Literature; American Academy of Religion; Association of Jewish Studies.
Select Publications:
The Culture of The Babylonian Talmud. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Rabbinic Stories. Classics in Western Spirituality Series: Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. 2002. The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods. Atlanta: Scholars Press. 1995. Context and Genre: Elements of a Literary Approach to the Rabbinic Narrative Criteria of Stammaitic Intervention in Aggada |


