Horeb - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Horeb: Studies in Rabbinic Culture invites you into the evolving study of rabbinic culture across antiquity and the modern period. It asks how rabbinic texts, practices, and communities take shape, how they change across time and place, and how they continue to shape Jewish thought today. You encounter cutting-edge research in midrash, Talmud, liturgy, legal development, material culture, alongside critical book reviews. The inaugural volume brings together leading scholars from major research universities and institutes worldwide, opening new conversations between textual and historical approaches. If you want to see where rabbinic studies is going next, this is where you begin.

About the Author

Barak Shlomo Cohen is Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Literature and Head of the Talmud Department at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on Babylonian Amoraim, Talmudic terminology, halakhic methodology, and Jewish life in Babylonia. He has published books and scholarly articles.

Steven Fine is Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University. A cultural historian of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period, he specializes in ancient Jewish literature, art, and archaeology. His publications include The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel(2016).

Joshua M. Karlip is Associate Professor of Jewish History and Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Chair of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. His research focuses on modern Jewish history, Jewish nationalism, and religion in Soviet Russia. His publications include The Tragedy of a Generation (2013).

Laura S. Lieber is Chair of Transregional Religious History at the University of Regensburg. Previously she was on the faculty of Duke University (2008-2024), where she directed the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Late Ancient Studies. Her research focuses on Jewish liturgical poetry (piyyut) in its lived context and its reception history.

Shana Strauch Schick is a lecturer of Rabbinic Literature at Bar-Ilan University. Her books include Intention in Talmudic Law: Between Thought and Deed (Brill, 2021), and forthcoming, Women in Rabbinic Law and Narrative: Vying Currents in Babylonian and Palestinian Texts (Brandeis University Press).