The study of Jewish religion in its various manifestations, including ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Methods include textual, historical, philosophical, gender, anthropological, and cultural analysis. Faculty expertise currently includes modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy, ethics, ritual, performance, and identity, Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Islamic relations, German Jewish thought, mysticism, medieval hermeneutics, Talmud, Midrash, and legal literatures, the second temple period, hellenistic Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient biblical interpretation. Faculty engage materials in languages including: Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Yiddish, Greek, Latin, Arabic, French, German, and Russian.
Judaism Faculty
David Novak, Centre for the Study of Religion
Harry Fox, Centre for the Study of Religion
John Kloppenborg, Centre for the Study of Religion
Judith Newman, Centre for the Study of Religion
Kenneth Green, Centre for the Study of Religion
Mark Meyerson, Department of History
Robert Gibbs, Department of Philosophy
Sarianna Metso, Department of Historical Studies
Hindy Najman, Centre for the Study of Religion
John Marshall, Centre for the Study of Religion
Terrence Donaldson, Faculty of Divinity
Glen Taylor, Faculty of Divinity
Paul Franks, Department of Philosophy
Andrea Most, Department of English