השכלה
BA, Ordination, Yeshiva University
JD, Columbia Law School
Phd with distinction, Harvard University
פרסומים מייצגים
BOOKS:
The Crown and the Courts: Separation of Powers in the Early Jewish Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2020).
BOOKS EDITED:
Law as Religion, Religion as Law (eds. David Flatto and Benny Porat, Cambridge University Press, 2022).
CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS:
“Mishnah Makkot,” in The New Oxford Mishnah (eds. S. Cohen and H. Lapin, Oxford University Press, 2022).
“A Bad Man Theory of Jewish Law,” in Law as Religion, Religion as Law (eds. David Flatto and Benny Porat, Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp.197-224.
ARTICLES:
“Evidently Not: Why Confessions are Excluded in Jewish Criminal Jurisprudence,” Journal of Law and Religion (Cambridge University Press) 39:2, 2024.
“Further Reflections on Separation of Powers in the Early Jewish Imagination,” Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies (Oxford University Press) 29:1, 2024.
“Impeachment and the Afterlife,” Europa cura te ipsam! Essays in honor of Rémi Brague (Rome: Stamen, 2021), 218-230.
“Praying from the Depths: Themes of Struggle and Uncertainty in Pre-Modern Accounts of Jewish Prayer,” Birds as Ornithologists: Scholarship between Faith and Reason (Indian and Tibetan Studies 8: Universitat Hamburg, 2020), 295-324.
“Constructing Justice: The Selective Use of Scripture in Formulating Early Jewish Accounts of the Courts,” Harvard Theological Review (October 2018).
“Theocracy and the Rule of Law: A Novel Josephan Doctrine and its Modern Misconceptions,” Dine Israel 28 (2011), pp. 5-30.
“Tradition and Modernity in the House of Study: Reconsidering the Relationship Between the Conceptual and Critical Methods of Studying Talmud,” Tradition 43:4, 2011, pp. 1-20 (See no.7).
“The King and I: The Separation of Powers in Early Hebraic Political Theory,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 20:1, 2008, pp. 61-110.
“Historical Roots of Judicial Independence and Their Modern Resonances,” 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 9, 2007.
“It is Good to be King: The Monarch’s Role in the Mishnah’s Political and Legal System,” Hebraic Political Studies 2:3, 2007, pp. 255-283.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
“Politics and the Bible: Rabbinic Judaism,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston) (forthcoming)
"Justice in Judaism,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston), 14,2017, pp. 1090-96
“King, Kingship in Judaism, ”Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston), 15, 2017, pp. 230-35.
“Golden Calf in Modern Jewish Commentaries,” “Golden Calf in Modern Jewish Commentaries,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston), 11, 2015, pp. 536-39.
“A Review Essay of Michael Walzer, In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible,” Association of Jewish Studies Review (Cambridge University Press) 38:1, 2014, pp. 161-167.