Harry Fox

Professor
Bancroft Hall, Room 313, 4 Bancroft Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1C1
416-946-3244

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

  • Post-Biblical Judaism
  • Talmudic literature
  • Rabbinic literature
  • Hebrew literature

Biography

Harry Fox, Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, teaches Judaism of late antiquity, Talmudic, rabbinic and geonic literature, and modern Hebrew literature. He is the author, with Justin Lewis, of Pious Women: A Yiddish Renaissance Defense of Women, and the editor, with Tirzah Meacham, of Introducing Tosefta: Textual, Intratextual and Intertextual Studies. His academic interests include post-Biblical Judaism, Talmudic literature, Rabbinic literature, and Hebrew literature. He has a BSc from McGill, an MS from Purdue, and a BA, MA, and PhD from Hebrew University.

 

Publications

Books

1999

Ed. with Tirzah Meacham. Introducing Tosefta: Textual, Intratextual and Intertextual Studies.

Articles

“Changes in the Honorifics as a Sign of Periodization.”Forthcoming.

2001

“Geniza Fragments of Bavili Rosh Hashana by David Golinkin.” Review.

2000

“R. Elijah Gaon’s Textual Emendations to Halakhic Midrash as a Basis for Understanding His Thought.”

1998

“R. Yonatan haKohen miLunel and Methodologies for Research of Rabbinic Literature.”

1998

“The Forelife of Ideas and the Afterlife of Texts.”

1998

“A Final Response.”

Education

PhD, Hebrew University
MS, Purdue University
MA, Hebrew University
BSc, McGill University
BA, Hebrew University