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Invitations to lecture

  
2010

"The Rabbinic 'Gentile': Another Look from the Perspective of
Impurity Laws", Annual AJS Conference, Boston

   
2010

"Embryonic Legal Midrash in Qumran", the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta
   
Conference Papers  
2010

"The Rabbinic 'Gentile': Another Look from the Perspective of
Impurity Laws", Annual AJS Conference, Boston
   
2010 "Embryonic Legal Midrash in Qumran", the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta
   
2009 Serving as a faculty member in a graduate student workshop: Rabbis and Others in Conversation, Princeton University
   
2008 "Qumran and the Rabbis: Reconstruction of a Common Exegesis", The Society of Biblical Literature 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, U.S.A..
   
  "Impurity and Sanctity in Josephus and in Rabbinic Halakhah: The Exclusion of Impure Persons from Holy Precincts",The Society of Biblical Literature 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, U.S.A..
   
  "Qumran and Rabbinic Midrash: Common Exegesis and Implied Polemics", International conference on The Dead Sea  Scrolls and Contemporary Culture: Celebrating 60 Years of Discovery, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
   
  ""The Gentileness of the Gentiles": Two Approaches to the Impurity of Non-Jews," International conference: Halacha and the Documents, The David and Jemima Jeselsohn Center for the Study of Ancient Jewish Epigraphy, Bar-Ilan University
   
  "The Dual Strategy of Rabbinic Purity Legislation." Prof. Martin Goodman's Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period, Oxford University.
   
2007 “The Dual Strategy of Rabbinic Purity Legislation.” Ancient Judaism Workshop, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University.
   
  “Ancient Halakhic Homilies in the Writings of the Qumran Sect and of the Tannaim.” Qumran session, SBL conference, San Diego, California.
   
  “Between Qumran and Rabbinic Midrash: Common Exegesis and Implied Polemics.” The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Context, University of Birmingham.
   
  “Dissenting Sects and Exegetical Struggles.” Spiritual Authority: Struggles on Cultural Power in Jewish Thought, International conference, Ben-Gurion University (in Hebrew).
   
  “Talmudic Biography.” Biography, Autobiography, and Hagiography in Jewish Culture, Conference at Bar-Ilan University (in Hebrew).
   
2006 “Josephus and the Rabbinic Narrative.” Jewish Culture in Its Multifaceted Aspects, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
   
  “Data from the Second Temple Era in the Babylonian Talmud.” Transitions of Knowledge in Jewish Culture, a joint conference of the World Union of Jewish Studies and the Open University, Raanana (in Hebrew).
   
2005 “Josephus and the Pharisaic Narrative.” Josephus seminar, SBL conference, Philadelphia.
   
  “New Sabbath Laws from Qumran.” 14th World Congress for Jewish Studies (in Hebrew).
   
  “The Selective Memory of Megillat Ta‘anit.” 29th Annual Conference of History, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History and the Israel Historical Society, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
   
  “The Disappearance of the Divine Spirit or a Miraculous Victory? Opposing Religious Interpretations of the Same Event.” Religious Responses to Political Crisis in Jewish and Christian Tradition, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv.
   
  “From Philology to History: Observations on the Scholion to Megillat Ta‘anit.” Institut für Judaistik, Freie Universität, Berlin.
   
  “The Testimony of the Babylonian Talmud: Late Fabrication or Echoes of Ancient Sources?” The Rabbinic Literature as a Historical Source, Departmental conference, Department of Talmud, Tel-Aviv University (in Hebrew).
   
  “External Materials in a Sectarian Work: The List of David’s Songs.” New Perspectives on Old Texts, 10th International Orion Symposium, Hebrew University.
   
2004 "Early Eretz-Israel Halakha as Preserved in the Babylonian Talmud." Departmental conference, Department of Talmud, Tel-Aviv University (in Hebrew).
   
2003 "From Philology to History and Literature.” Midrash Consultation: SBL Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
   
  "Truth and Peace: The Dispute of Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel." Debate and Dispute, Joint conference of the Departments of Philosophy and Jewish Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University (in Hebrew).
   
  "Traces of Sectarian Halakha in the Rabbinic World.” Rabbinical Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls, 8th International Orion Symposium, Hebrew University.
   
2002 "Divorce at Qumran in Light of Early Halakha." SBL Conference, Toronto
   
  "The Talmudic Tale of the Two Captives and its Evolvement." Joint conference of the Departments of Hebrew Literature and Talmud, Tel-Aviv University (in Hebrew)
   
2001 "Beit Shammai and Sectarian Halakha." Plenary session, 13th World Congress for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
   
2000 "Early Textual Traditions in Rashi’s Emendations to the Talmud." Conference in memory of Professor A.S. Rosenthal, Department of Talmud, Hebrew University (in Hebrew).
   
1999 "The Text of the Tosefta, a Key to the Reconstruction of the Evolvement of Babylonian Sugyot." Tannaic Literature, Conference of the Department of Talmud, Tel-Aviv University (in Hebrew).
   
1997 "Megillat Ta’anit in the Babylonian Talmud." 12th World Congress for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
   
1996 "Bible and Midrash in Megillat Ta’anit." Conference in memory of Prof. Ephraim Urbach, The Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem (in Hebrew)
   
   
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