EDUCATION
     1998   Hebrew University, Jerusalem Ph.D. (Judaism in Late Antiquity)
     1995   Princeton University Fulbright student - Religion Studies
     1993   Hebrew University, Jerusalem M.A. Independent Program in Judaic Studies
Summa Cum Laude
     1990   Open University of Israel B.A. Jewish Studies and History Cum Laude

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
     2004-5  Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
     2000-    Assistant Professor, Rabbinic Literature, University of Michigan
     1998-9   Dorot Teaching Fellow, New York University
     1995-6   Teaching Assistant, Princeton University
     1992-8   Instructor, Hebrew University

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
     2004-5   Senior Fellowship of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
     2004   Faculty Enhancement Award
     2003   LSA ITC Faculty Grant
     2003   Rackham Faculty Research Grant
     2002   CRLT Faculty Development Award
     2001   Grants from the University of Michigan office of Vice President for Research and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for the completion of book on the Temple Mount
     1999   Bernard M. Bloomfield Prize for Outstanding Doctorate Dissertation in the Humanities Hebrew University
     1998-2000   Dorot Post Doctorate Fellowship New York University
     1995-6   Fulbright Fellowship Princeton University
     1994-7   Rotenstreich Fellowship Israeli Council for Higher Education
     1994-5   Research Award Jewish Memorial Foundation
     1994   The Francis Günter Award for Jerusalem Studies
     1993   M.A. Grant for Excellence Hebrew University
     1993   A. & R. Negev Award Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew U.
     1993   Kahana Award Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew U.
     1992   Rector Award Hebrew University
     1992   Gutwirth Award Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew U.
     1991   Excellence Grant Hebrew University

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Sites, Institutions and Daily Life in Tiberias during the Talmudic Period: A Source Book (Mi'tuv T'veria 10), Jerusalem: Ariel and Bar-Ilan University Press, 1995. (Heb.)

God's Mountain: The Temple Mount in Time, Space, and Memory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; in press - scheduled to appear Novemeber 1, 2005).

A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Daily Life Encounters with Hellenism in Roman Palestine (in preparation).

Edited Volumes

With Anita Norich - Jewish Literatures and Cultures - Context and Intertext (in preparation).

With Elise Friedland and Sharon Herbert - The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (under contract with Peeters in the series Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion; scheduled to appear in 2006).

1. "Jewish Bath-Houses in the Roman Period: A Test-case of the Confluence of Archaeological Finds and Talmudic Texts." Nineteenth Archaeological Conference in Israel (summaries), Jerusalem 1993, pp. 25-26. (Heb.)
2. "Did the Jews at First Abstain from Using the Roman Bath-House?," Cathedra, 75 (1995), pp. 3-35. (Heb.)
3. "Pylè - Puma - Sfat Medinah and a Halacha Concerning Bath-houses," Sidra, 11 (1995), pp. 5-19 (Heb.)
4. "What Happened to Rabbi Abbahu at the Tiberian Bath-House? - The Place of Realia and Daily Life in the Talmudic Aggada," Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, 17 (1995), pp. 7-20. (Heb.)
5. "Hadrian's Actions in the Jerusalem Temple Mount According to Cassius Dio and Xiphilini Manus," JSQ, 4 (1997), pp.125-144.
6. "Second Temple Period," A bibliographical entry in Encyclopedia Judaica, an electronic revised edition, Jerusalem 1997.
7. "Abraham Kahana (1874-1946): A Self-Trained Scholar and Publisher in Jewish Studies," Kiryat Sefer: Collected Essays, Supplement to Vol. 68 (1998), pp. 7-19 (Heb.).
8. "'Interpretive Citation' in the Epistle of Barnabas and the Early Christian Attitude towards the Temple Mount," in: C.A. Evans (ed.), The Interpretation of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity (JSPS 33; Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity 7), Sheffield 2000, pp. 353-362.
9. "The Place of James' Tomb and the Status of the Temple Mount in Judaism and Christianity after 70 CE," in: Proceedings of the 12th International conference of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 2000, pp. 1-9. (Heb.)
10. "The Roman Bath as a Jewish Institution: Another Look at the Encounter between Judaism and the Greco-Roman Culture", JSJ, 31 (2000), pp. 416-454.
11. "The Temple Mount in Jerusalem as a Cultic Site and Political Center in Judaism and Christianity," in: Y. Reiter (ed.), Sovereignty of God and Man: Sanctity and Political Centrality on the Temple Mount (JIIS 88), Jerusalem 2001, pp. 25-56 (Heb.).
12. "Realia, Daily Life, and the Transmission of Local stories During the Talmudic Period," in: Leonard V. Rutgers (ed.), What Athens has to Do with Jerusalem: Essays on Classical, Jewish and Early Christian Archaeology In Honor of Gidon Foerster (Leuven: Peters, 2002), pp. 235-265.
13. "Viewing the Sculptural Environment; Shaping the Second Commandment," in: Peter Schäfer (ed.), The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture III (Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum 93; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002), pp. 411-433.
14. "The Urban Layout of Aelia Capitolina: A New View from the Perspective of the Temple Mount," in: Peter Schäfer (ed.), The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered (Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum 100; Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003), pp. 241-277.
15. "On Idolatry in the Roman Bath House -- Two Comments," Cathedra, 110 (2003), pp. 173-180 (Heb.).
16. ""The Tomb of James Brother of Jesus as Locus Memoriae, Harvard Theological Review, 97 (2004), pp. 32-59. ""The Matrix of Ancient Judaism: A Review Essay of Seth Schwartz's Imperialism and Jewish Society 200 BCE to 640 CE," Prooftexts, 24 (2004), pp. 116-128.
17. ""The Matrix of Ancient Judaism: A Review Essay of Seth Schwartz's Imperialism and Jewish Society 200 BCE to 640 CE," Prooftexts, 24 (2004), pp. 116-128.
18. ""The Temple Mount, the Rabbis, and the Poetics of Memory," Hebrew Union College Annual, 74 (2004), pp. 49-113.
19. " "A New/Old Reading of the lithos epi lithon Prophecy and the Role of the Temple Mount in the Jesus Movement," in: J. Pastor and M. Mor (eds.), The Beginnings of Christianity (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2005), pp. 325-347.
20. ""The Temple Mount in Jewish Liturgy: Re-Examination of the Historical Background," in: S. Ward et al. (eds.), Avoda and Ibada: Studies in Jewish and Islamic Liturgy (accepted).
21. ""Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough, the author of Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, and his Scholarly Work," in: I. Gafni & A. Oppenheimer (eds.), Jewish and Christian Scholars of the Twentieth Century (accepted; Heb.).
22. "Entries on Herodis, Tiberias and Paneas in The New Onomasticon of Ancient Palestine (ed. L.I. Levine; Jerusalem: Hebrew University, in press; Heb.)
23. "Entry on "Jerusalem," in: P.C. Finney (ed.), Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology (in press).
24. ""Jews and Judaism 70-429 CE," in: D. Potter (ed.), A Companion to the Roman World (Blackwell; in press).
25. ""The Desolating Sacrilege: A Jewish Christian Discourse on Statuary, Space, and Power," in: Y.Z. Eliav et al (eds.), The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (accepted).
26. ""Roman Statues, Rabbis, and Graeco-Roman Culture," in A. Norich and Y.Z. Eliav (eds.), Jewish Literatures and Cultures - Context and Intertext (accepted).

1. Daniel Boyarin, "Dying For God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism," in: Hebrew Studies, 42 (2001), pp. 385-389.
2. Peter Schäfer (ed.), "The Talmud Yerushalmi and Greco Roman Culture," in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122:1 (2002), pp. 132-135.
3. Galit Hasan-Rokem, "Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature," in: Hebrew Studies, 43 (2002), pp. 314-317.
4. Clayton Miles Lehmann and Kenneth G. Holum, "The Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima" (Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports Series 5), in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 124:2 (2004), pp. 414-416.
5. Yizhar Hirschfels (ed.), "Ramat Hanadiv Excavations: Final Report of the 1984-1998 Seasons," in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 124:2 (2004), pp. 414-416. - Seth Schwartz, Imperialism and Jewish Society 200 BCE to 640 CE, in Prooftexts (see articles no. 17).
6. Antoinette Clark Wire, "Holy Lives, Holy Deaths: A Close Hearing of Early Jewish Storytellers," in: Journal of the American Oriental Society (in press).
7. Paul Heger, "The Pluralistic Halakhah: Legal Innovations in the Late Second Commonwealth and Rabbinic Periods," in: Journal of the American Oriental Society (in press).
8. Stefan Alkier and Markus Witte (eds.), "Die Griechen und das antike Israel: Interdisziplinare Studien zur Religions - und Kulturgeschichte des Heiligen Landes," in Journal of the American Oriental Society (in preparation).
9. Sacha Stern, "Time and Process in Ancient Judaism," in Zion (in preparation; Heb.)

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
     Society of Biblical Literature
     American Association of Jewish Studies
     World Union of Jewish Studies
     Israeli Historical Society

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