Père, architecte. Mère, épouse au foyer
Marié (1999), cinq enfants
2005 Docteur en philosophie (summa cum laude), département d‘histoire juive à l’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem
1993-1998 M. A. (cum laude) Département d’histoire juive à l’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem
1992-1996 Études talmudiques, centre Shalom Hartman, Jérusalem
1988-1992 B.A. Histoire juive et histoire générale à l’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem
2017-2018 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Member, School of Historical Studies
2014-2017 Chercheur, ‘A Question of Identity’, Mandel Scholion, à l’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem
2010-2011 Visiting Assistant Professor à l’Université Cornell, Department of Near Eastern Studies
2009-2010 Research Fellow, International Consortium on the Humanities, à l’Université de Ruhr, Bochum
2008-2009 Post-Doc à l’Université de Genève
2007-2008 Post-Doc à l’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem
2006 Post-Doc à l’Université Harvard, Harry Starr Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies
2005-2007 Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Littérature rabbinique classique
Histoire juive durant l’Antiquité et l’Antiquité tardive.
Relations judéo-zoroastriennes à l‘époque sassanide
Talmud de Babylone
Littérature syriaque dans l’empire sassanide
Géographie de la Babylone sassanide
Coupes magiques araméennes
Ouvrages en nom propre
A Prince without a Kingdom. The Exilarch in the Sasanian Era, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 150, Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2012, 411 p.
Éditeur
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians: Religious Dynamics in a Sasanian Context, Judaism in Context 17, Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2014, 325 p.
Collectifs et Co-direction d’ouvrages
Between Babylonia and the Land of Israel: Studies in Honor of Isaiah M. Gafni, (co-edited with Aharon Oppenheimer and Meir Ben Shahar) The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem, 2016, 500 p. (en hébreu)
The Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and its Cultural World, (co-edited with Jeffrey L. Rubenstein) Brown Judaic Studies. Providence, Rhode Island, 2018, 393 p.
Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism. Studies for Tal Ilan at Sixty (co-edited with Saskia Dönitz and Meron Piotrkowsky, AJEC series, Leiden : Brill, 2018. 388 p.
Irano-Judaica VII, Studies Relating to Jewish Contacts with Persian Culture Throughout the Ages, (co-edited with Julia Rubanovich) Jerusalem : Ben-Zvi Institute, 2019, 704 p.
A Question of Identity, Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts, eds. Dikla Rivlin Katz, Noah Hacham, Geoffrey Herman and Lilach Sagiv, Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2019, 394 p.
Édition de textes
- Persian Martyr Acts under King Yazdgird I, volume in the Series: Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation (general series editor: Adam H. Becker), Gorgias Press, 2016, 90 p.
Articles, chapitres de livres (récents)
“Babylonia of Pure Lineage: Notes on Babylonian Jewish Toponymy”, in Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism, eds. Geoffrey Herman, Saskia Dönitz and Meron Piotrkowsky, Brill, AJEC series, 2018, 191-228.
“Syriac and Persian Worlds: Interactions”, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King, Routledge, 2018, 134-145.
“‘There we sat down’: Mapping Settlement Patterns in Sasanian Babylonia,” in Sabine Schmidtke, ed. Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018, 2018, 1-10.
“Back to Bustanay – the history of a Legend”, Irano-Judaica VII, Studies Relating to Jewish Contacts with Persian Culture Throughout the Ages, (edited by Geoffrey Herman and Julia Rubanovich), Jerusalem : Ben-Zvi Institute, 2019, 311-339.
“Jewish Identity in Babylonia in the Period of the Incantation Bowls”, in A Question of Identity, Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts, eds. Dikla Rivlin Katz, Noah Hacham, Geoffrey Herman and Lilach Sagiv, Oldenbourg De Gruyter, 2019.