RECENT AWARDS
Professor Bakhos was awarded a Mellon Grant for the 2006-07 academic year to study Qur'anic scriptural interpretation at Princeton, where she will be a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary, 2000.
MTS, Harvard University, 1992.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
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Judaism in its Hellenistic Context, edited volume. (Leiden: EJ Brill, 2004).
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Current Trends in the Study of Midrash, edited volume. (Leiden: EJ Brill, 2006)
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Ishmael on the Border: Rabbinic Portrayals of the First Arab. (New York: SUNY Press, 2006; recipient of Koret Foundation grant)
Articles, Essays, Book Chapter and Entries
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"Midrash Aggadah," Reader’s Guide to Judaism, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.
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"The Talmud." Forthcoming in World Literature and Its Times 6: Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times, ed. Joyce Moss (Detroit: Gale Group, 2004).
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"Tannaitic Depictions of Ishmael." Forthcoming in Proceedings of the Rabbinical Assembly 2003 (New York: Rabbinical Assembly Press, 2006).
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"Method (ological) Matters in the Study of Midrash." In Current Trends in the Study of Midrash, edited volume. (Leiden: EJ Brill, 2006).
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"Early Medieval Jewish Interpretation." Forthcoming in History of Biblical Interpretation, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (forthcoming)
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"Abraham’s Visit to Ishmael in Pirke Rabbi Eliezer: A Revisit," Journal for the Study of Judaism (forthcoming).
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"Figuring (out) Esau: The Rabbis and Their Others," Journal for Jewish Studies (forthcoming).
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"Orality and Writing." In The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine, ed. Catherine Hezser (forthcoming).
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"Aggadah." In Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing, forthcoming).
Book Reviews and Book Review Essays
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Karen Armstrong's In the Beginning and Levi Meier's Ancient Secrets, Citara, St. Bonaventure University, Spring 1997.
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Shaye Cohen, ed., The Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature (Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2000) and Jeffrey Rubenstein, Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition and Culture (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1999). Journal of Biblical Literature Vol.120, Winter 2001.
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Etienne Nodet, A Search for the Origins of Judaism, Journal of Law, Vol. XVII, 2002.
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Alon Goshen-Gottstein, The Sinner and the Amnesiac: The Rabbinic Invention of Elisha Ben Abuya and Eleazar Ben Arach (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000). JAAR Vol 70, Winter 2003.
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William Horbury, Jews and Christians: In Contact and Controversy (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998). Forthcoming in Scottish Journal of Theology. March 2006
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Gunter Stemberger, Jews and Christians in the Holy Land: Palestine in the Fourth Century (Edingburgh: T&T Clark, 2000). Scottish Journal of Theology. March 2006
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Review of Robert A. Kugler, THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS. Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, 10. (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001). Religious Studies Review.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Late Antique rabbinic compilations; Medieval Jewish and Islamic scriptural interpretation.
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