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Eliezer Segal : Curriculum Vitae

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Name: Eliezer Lorne Segal,

Department of Religious Studies, SS1314,

University of Calgary,

Calgary AB, Canada T2N 1N4

tel.: (403) 220-5886

email: eliezer.segal@ucalgary.ca

Born: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Sept. 28 1950

Marital Status: Married, Agnes Romer Segal (3 children)

Education

1967-72 B.A. McGill University, Montreal, Major in Jewish Studies and Philosophy. Degree awarded 1972.

1972-76 M.A. in Talmud, Hebrew University. Thesis: Case-Citation in the Babylonian Talmud, directed by the late Prof. E. S. Rosenthal. Degree awarded June 1976.

1976-82 PhD in Talmud, Hebrew University. Thesis: Textual Traditions of TB Megillah, directed by Prof. E. S. Rosenthal. Degree awarded June 1982.

1977-78 Guest of the Oxford Centre for Post Graduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford U.K.

Awards and Scholarships

1975 Scholarship from Canadian Foundation for Jewish Culture.

1976 Nisslewitz Prize, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University.

1978 Fellow of Canada Council for Humanities and Social Sciences.

1979 Fellow of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

1981 Lady Davis Fellow; grant from Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

1983 A. Urbach Memorial Prize, Hebrew University.

1985 E. S. Rosenthal Memorial Award, Talmud Department, Hebrew University.

1985-88 Finkelstein Scholarships, Lieberman Institute for Talmudic Research, Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

1991-2 Fellow of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.

1993 University of Calgary University Research Grants Committee, Visiting Scholar Award (Avraham David).

1997-8 American Academy of Religion / Lilly Foundation Teaching Workshop-- Grant to participate in a series of four workshops on the academic teaching of Religious Studies.

1999.2000Lady Davis Fellowship Trust Visiting Professor Grant for research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2003- Included in Canadian Who’s Who (University of Toronto Press, p. 1170).

Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences: Aid to Scholarly Publication grant, for book From Sermon to Commentary: Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia (Wilfrid Laurier University Press).

2006 Awarded the Nachman Sokol-Chaim Yoel and Mollie Halberstadt Award for Scholarship: Biblical / Rabbinic, the Helen and Stan Vine Annual Canadian Jewish Book Awards; for: From Sermon to Commentary: Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia.

Teaching and Research Positions

1976-84 Taught courses in Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Jerusalem campus..

1981-82 Instructor in Talmud and Rabbinics, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba; curriculum consultant, Everyman's University, Israel (Course: From Jerusalem to Yavneh, English version).

1983-83 Instructor in Talmud and Aggadah, Bar-llan University, Ramat-Gan Israel.

1984-85 Instructor in Rabbinics, David Yellin Teachers Seminary, Jerusalem; Researcher, Mosseri Genizah Manuscript Catalogue, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem; Talmud instructor, Centre for Conservative Judaism, Jerusalem (adult education).

1985-86 Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, University of California, Berkeley; teacher, Midrashah East-Bay Community Jewish High School).

1986- Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary.

1989- Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary.

1996- Researcher, The Society for the Interpretation of the Talmud (Jerusalem) (project for the publication of critical commentaries on chapters from the Talmud).

1998- Full Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary.

Participant, Summer Institute on "The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice" sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, University of Victoria, Conrad Grebel College (University of Waterloo), Chaplaincy (Corrections Service Canada), and International Centre for Criminal Law Reform (University of British Columbia).

2000 Orion Visiting Scholar, Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Taught course “Aggadah in the Land of Israel and Babylonia," Department of Talmud, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Winter 2000 term).

Publications: Books

1.Case Citation in the Babylonian Talmud: The Evidence of Tractate Neziqin, Atlanta: Brown Judaic Studies, 1990.

2.The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary Volume One: To the End of Esther Chapter 1, Atlanta: Brown Judaic Studies, 1994.

3.The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary Volume Two: To the Beginning of Esther Chapter 5, Atlanta: Brown Judaic Studies, 1994.

4.The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary Volume Three: Esther Chapter 5 to End, Atlanta: Brown Judaic Studies, 1994.

5.Why Didn’t I Learn That in Hebrew School? Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson 1999.

6.Holidays, History and Halakhah, Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson 2001 (251 pages).

7.Ask Now of the Days That Are Past, Calgary: University of Calgary Press 2005 (311 pages).

8.From Sermon to Commentary: Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia, Studies in Christianity and Judaism. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005 (170 pages).

9.In Those Days, at This Time: Holiness and History in the Jewish Calendar, University of Calgary Press, 2007 (324 pages).

10.A Meeting-Place for the Wise: More Excursions into the Jewish Past and Present. Calgary: CreateSpace for the Alberta Judaic Library, 2008 (216 pages).

11.Sanctified Seasons. Calgary: CreateSpace for the Alberta Judaic Library, 2008 (203 pages).

12.Introducing Judaism, Oxford: Routledge, 2008.

13.Judaism--the eBook, Journal of Buddhist Ethics Online Books, 2008.

14.Co-editor, Catalogue of the Jack Mosseri Collection, Jerusalem: the Jewish National and University Library, 1990

15.Index editor, J. N. Epstein, Studies in Talmudic Literature and Semitic Languages II, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 1988.

Publications: Book Chapters

1.Unit 8: The Oral Law…The Mishnah, in: I. Gottlieb [et al], Jerusalem to Jabneh, Tel Aviv: Everyman's University, 1981.

2.10 entries in: J. D. Douglas, ed., Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Second Edition (Grand Rapids, 1990).

3. “Judaism,” in: H. Coward, ed., Life After Death in the World Religions Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997, pp. 11-30.

[German translation: Das Leben nach dem Tod in den Weltreligionen Freiburg: Herder, 1998.]

4. “Judaism,” in: H. Coward, ed., Experiencing Scripture in World Religions Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2000, 15-33.

5.“Jewish Perspectives on Restorative Justice” in: M. Hadley, ed., The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001, 181-98.

6."Apéndice Documental: C. Poesias Encomiásticas Proemiales a Abraham Gómez Silveira En Sus Sermones (1677)." In El Barroco Sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira: Arévalo, Prov. De Avila, Castilla 1656 -- Amsterdam 1741: Estudio Preliminar, Obras Líricas, Vejámenes En Prosa Y Verso Y Documentación Personal, edited by Kenneth Brown and Harm Den Boer, 256-60. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2000.

7.“Disarming Phineas: Rabbinic Confrontations with Biblical Militancy,” in: D. Hawkin, ed., The Twenty-first Century Confronts Its Gods: Studies in the Interaction between Religion and Society, SUNY Press, 2004, 141-56.

8.“Anthological Dimensions of the Babylonian Talmud,” in: D. Stern, ed., The Anthology in Jewish Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 81-107 [reprinted from: Prooftexts 17 (1997)].

9.“Digital Discipleship: Using the Internet for the Teaching of Jewish Thought,” in: H. Kreisel, ed., Study and Knowledge in Jewish Thought, The Goldstein-Goren Library of Jewish Thought (Beersheba: Ben-Gurion University Press, 2006), 359-373.

10.6 entries in: Encyclopaedia Judaica. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik, Eds. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 22 vols.

11."The Concept of Diaspora in Talmudic Thought," in: A. M. Ehrlich, ed., Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008), 1:4-8.

12.“Aristeas or Aggadah: Talmudic Legend and the Greek Bible in Palestinian Judaism,” in: W. O. McCready and A. Reinhartz, eds., Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008), 159-172, 286-292.

13."From Glutton to Gangster," in: Aubrey Glazer, Justin Lewis, Tzemah Yoreh, eds., Vixens Disturbing Vineyards: The Embarrassment and Embracement of Scriptures--A Festschrift Honoring Harry Fox Le'Veit Yoreh (Brighton MA, Academic Studies Press, 2009), 246-265.

14."The Parnass, the Gabbai and the Ritual Committee," in: Sandra Morton Weizman and Agnes Romer Segal, eds., The House that Jacob Built: Congregation House of Jacob-Mikveh Israel, Calgary, Alberta Centennial Commemorative Book (Calgary, 2009), 60-61.

15."Judaism: Contemporary Expressions" in: The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010) [in press].

Publications: Articles in Scholarly Journals

English:

1.“The Terminology of Case-Citation in the Babylonian Talmud,” Journal for the Study of Judaism, 9 (1979), pp. 205-211.

2.“Variant Traditions of Cases in the Babylonian Talmud,” Jewish Quarterly Review (N. S.), 70 (1979), pp. 1-27.

3.“The Use of the Formula ki ha de in the Citation of Cases in the Babylonian Talmud,” Hebrew Union College Annual, 50 (1979), pp. 199-218 [Reprinted in: J. Neusner and W. S. Green, eds., The Origins of Judaism: Religion, History and Literature in Late Antiquity, Vol. 10 (The Talmuds), New York 1991.

4.“‘The Same from Beginning to End...’ -- on the Development of a Midrashic Homily,” Journal of Jewish Studies, 32 (1981), pp. 158-165.

5.“Law as Allegory? An Unnoticed Literary Device in Talmudic Narratives”, Prooftexts 8 (1988) (pp. 245-256).

6.“Human Anger and Divine Intervention in Esther,” Prooftexts, 9, 247-56 (1989).

7. “Midrash and Literature: Some Medieval Views,” Prooftexts 11 (1991), pp. 57-65.:

8.“Justice, Mercy and a Bird’s Nest,” Journal of Jewish Studies, Fall 1991, 176-195.

9.“Sarah and Iscah: Method and Message in a Midrashic Tradition,” Jewish Quarterly Review 82:3-4 (1991), 417-30.

10.“The Exegetical Craft of the Zohar: Towards an Appreciation,” The AJS Review 17:1 (1991), 31-49.

11.“Interpreting Midrash 3: Midrash and the Tannaitic Aggada” [Review article], Prooftexts 12:2 (1992), 188-92.

12.“Anthological Dimensions of the Babylonian Talmud,” Prooftexts 17 (1997) [special issue on The Anthological Imagination in Jewish Literature], pp. 33-61 (invited article) .

13.“Associative’ Organization in the Talmud: Some Reconsiderations,” Papers of the Chair in Quebec and Canadian Jewish Studies, Montreal (1999).

14.“‘The Few Contained the Many’: Rabbinic Perspectives on the Miraculous and the Impossible,” Journal of Jewish Studies 54:2 (2003), pp. 273-82.

15.“Rabbi Eleazar’s Perutah,” Journal of Religion 85:1 (2005), pp. 25-42.

Hebrew:

1. “Kenisah/Kenesah -- Morphological-Semantic Distinction in a Mishnaic Hebrew Verbal Noun,” Leshonenu, 43 (1979), pp. 157-160.

2. “The Goat of the Slaughterhouse...' -- on the Evolution of a Variant Reading in the Babylonian Talmud,” Tarbiz, 49 (1980), pp. 43-51.

3. “Marginal Glosses in the Bodlean Copy of TB Megillah Pesaro. Edition,” Alei Sefer, 9 (1981), pp. 130-139.

4. “The Textual Tradition of the Columbia University Manuscript of TB Megillah,” Tarbiz, 53 (1984), pp. 31-59.

5.“The Petihta in Babylonia,” Tarbiz, 53 (1985), pp. 19-46.

Papers Presented

Papers presented:

1.“Variant readings of TB Megillah”, E. S. Rosenthal Memorial Lecture, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Feb. 1985.

2.“The TB Megillah Esther Midrash and the Study of Babylonian Aggadah”, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Mass., December 1987.

3.“Case Citation, Wishful Thinking and Some Misunderstood Talmudic Terms”, Association for Jewish Studies Twentieth Annual Conference, Boston, Mass., December 18, 1988, (IIC)

4.“Derash in Spite of Peshat: Some Medieval Justifications for Creative Exegesis,” Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Mass., December 1989.

5.“Peace or Victory? -- The Meaning of Purim in the Bible and Talmud,” Canadian Society for Biblical Studies Conference on “Reading the Bible,” University of Calgary, January 19, 1990.

6.“Justice, Mercy and a Bird's Nest,” Department of Religious Studies, University of Alberta, March 5, 1990.

7.“The Zohar as Exegesis,” guest lecture, University of Alberta, March 5 1990.

8.“The Law of Retaliation,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Research into Religious Studies and Theology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2, 1991.

9.“Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah,” one-day seminar, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, June 25 1991.

10.“From India to Ethiopia--From Hermeneutics to Homiletics” Lecture for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, Oct. 17 1991.

11.“Aims and Means in the Preparation of Critical Editions of Tractates from the Babylonian Talmud,” Paper delivered at the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 1993.

12.Respondent: Paul van Buren, “Torah, Israel, Jesus, Church—Today,” Canadian Council of Christians and Jews (Alberta Region) Christian-Jewish Dialogue, Calgary, Nov. 21 1993.

13.“The Thirteenth of Adar: Gemara, Sevara and the Meaning of Purim,” Guest Lecture at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, NY, Feb. 14, 1994.

14.Chairperson, “Trajectories of Biblical Tradition/Trajectoires Bibliques” session, Canadian Society for Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, Calgary, June 7 1994.

15.“The Distinctiveness of Babylonian Aggadah: Reflections on the Esther-Midrash” Paper delivered at the Canadian Society for Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, Calgary, June 7 1994.

16.“Atonement and Ingathering: The Jewish Fall Festivals” Exhibition and Introductory Lecture, Dept. of Religious Studies “Festivals and Holy Days” series, Calgary, Oct. 11 1994.

17.“Electronic Resources for Learning and Future Curriculum Innovation”--Showcase and Demonstration for University of Calgary “Envisioning Transformation” Week: February 14 1996.

18.“‘Associative’ Organization in the Talmud: Some Reconsiderations” Invited paper delivered at the conference “A Heritage in Transition: Jewish Studies in Canada” sponsored by the Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies of Concordia University and the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University, Montreal, June 10 1996 [See above].

19.“Issues in Rabbinic Philology” Presentation for University of Calgary Philology Research Group, January 8 1998.

20."Variants, Traditions and the Meaning of Prophecy" Presentation for: "Theories of the Text" an interdisciplinary workshop and panel discussion, University of Calgary Philology Research Group, March 18 1999.

21.Faculty of Humanities Development Committee, presentation for Workshop on Web-based courses, April 19 1999.

22.“Towards a Definition of ‘the Era of the Sages’” Presentation at the Second Annual Conference on Research in Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha of Jerusalem Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, Jerusalem Israel, December 5 1999.

23.“Seventy Faces to the LXX: The Rabbinic Tradition on the Greek Translation of the Pentateuch Revisited” Jonas Greenfield Scholars Seminar, Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 3 2000.

24.“’Little Contained Much’: On the Sages’ Attitude towards Philosophical Discourse.” Paper presented at International Conference on Jewish Thought and Foreign Cultures: “Judaism and the World—Interaction, Influence and Impact,” Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel, May 30 2000.

25.“From Miedzyboz to Paris: Chabad and the Writing of Hassidic History.” Lecture for the University of Calgary Jewish Studies Group, March 14 2001.

26.“Presenting and Teaching the Talmud on the Internet” presentation for: “Geschichte der Intertextualität als Mediensgeschichte: Der babylonischen Talmud” (“Talmud Bavli—History of Transmission as History of Intertextuality), Workshop organized by the Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungskolleg “Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation” of the University of Cologne, Germany, June 27-28 2001.

27."The Temple as a Source of Unity and Conflict (So What Else is New?)," presentation for: "History, Issues, and Ideas--Lost Worlds: Jewish Life, Roman World," workshop organized by the University of Victoria Department of Greek and Roman Studies and Division of Continuing Studies, and the Victoria Jewish Community Centre; University of Victoria, Victoria BC, November 25, 2001.

28.“The Archaeology of Religious Customs: Ashkenazic religious practice and the geographical origins of European Jewry,” address for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Southern Alberta, Calgary, January 21 2002.

29.“From there to here, from here to there / Seuss-ifying Hebrew prayer.” Faculty Colloquium “Across Cultural Boundaries,” Faculty of Humanities, University of Calgary, January 23, 2002.

30.“Alternative E-Publishing: Reality and Practice,” presentation for workshop on “New Models in Academic Publishing: Dispelling the Myth” sponsored by University of Calgary Information Resources, November 12 2002.

31.Itta and Eliezer Zeisler Memorial Lectureship, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, January 30-February 1, 2003:

  • a.“That LXX Show: The Alleged Rejection of the Septuagint at Yavneh” (faculty seminar), January 30, 2003.
  • b.“Digital Pilgrimages: Jewish Identities on the Internet,” January 31, 2003.
  • c.“Disarming Pinhas: The Rabbis Deal with a Biblical Extremist” (Public Lecture at the Vancouver Jewish Community Cewntre), February 1 2003.

32.“A Penny in the Pushkah: The Ritualization of Ethics in Jewish Custom," paper for the University of Calgary Jewish Studies Group, January 27 2004.

33.“Digital Discipleship: Using the Internet for the Teaching of Jewish Thought” presentation for: International Conference on “Study and knowledge in Jewish Thought," Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, June 9, 2004.

34.Respondent: Craig A. Evans, “Messianic Hopes & Messianic figures in Late Antiquity,” sponsored by the Chair of Christian Thought, University of Calgary, November 2, 2004.

35.“From Exegesis to Homiletics: Investigating the Aggadic Midrash in the Babylonian Talmud,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Talmud seminar series on “Research Topics in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature,” March 8, 2005.

36.“Talmudic Trajectories: Academic encounters with the Oral and Written Torahs,” seminar for the Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem, March 16, 2005.

37.“‘Refined Sevenfold’—Towards a Characterization of Aggadic Midrash in the Talmud,” Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Department of Talmud Faculty Seminar, March 21, 2005.

38.“Aristeas or Aggadah: Talmudic Legend and the Greek Bible in Palestinian Judaism,” Conference on “Common Judaism Explored. Second Temple Judaism in Context,” Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Calgary, May 17, 2005.

39.“Monotheism and Misanthropy: Historical Responses to Liberal Anti-Judaism” lecture for Jewish Studies Research Group, University of Calgary, November 30, 2005.

40."Under the Sign of Pisces: Tracing the Route of the 'Ring of Polycrates' from Herodotus to the Rabbis (and then some)" [Hebrew], Departmental Coloquium, Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, November 24, 2008.

41."Methodological Issues in the Definition of the Rabbinic Era" [Hebrew], presentation for "On Religions of Place and Religions of Community"" seminar, Scholion- Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 3, 2008.

Publications: Reviews

1.“Transitional Period in Talmudic Judaism” (review article), Tarbiz, 51 (1982), pp. 315-318 [Hebrew].

2.Review of: E. H. Flannery, The Anguish of the Jews, Religious Studies and Theology 6:3 (1986), 66-67.

3.Review of: J. Osterreicher, The New Encounter Between Christians and Jews, Religious Studies and Theology, 6:3 (1986), 68-70.

4.Review of: Donald Georgen, O.P., The Mission and Ministry of Jesus, Religious Studies and Theology, vol.7, Nos. 2 & 3, May, September 1987, pp.88-90.

5.Review of: E. Goldsmith and M. Scult, eds., Dynamic Judaism: The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Religious Studies and Theology 8 (1988), 85-8.

6.Review of: M. Doohan Mark—Visionary of Early Christianity, Religious Studies and Theology 8 (1988), 53-4.

7.Review of: S. T. Lachs, A Rabbinic Commentary on the New Testament, Religious Studies and Theology 8 (1988), 57-8.

8.Review of: J. Neusner, The Way of Torah, Religious Studies and Theology (1992), 45-6.

9.Review of P. Alexander, Judaism, Religious Studies and Theology 13-14(1995), 110-11.

10.Review of B. Walfish, Esther in Medieval Garb: Jewish interpretations of Esther, Religious Studies/Sciences Religieuses 24:3 (1994), 371-2.

11.Review of R. Kalmin, Sages, Stories, Authors and Editors in Rabbinic Babylonia, in: Religious Studies Review (1995) Religious Studies Review, October 1995, p. 432

12.Review of J. Lightstone, The Rhetoric of the Babylonian Talmud, Its Social Meaning and Context in: Religious Studies/Sciences Religieuses 24 (1995), 506-8.

13.Review of A. Houtman, A Synoptic Comparison of the Tractates Berakhot and Shebiit. Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum, in: Hebrew Studies 40 (1999), 365-7.

14.Review of David Novak, Natural Law in Judaism, in: Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 29 (2000), 246-7.

15. Review of: H. Fox and T. Meacham, eds., Introducing Tosefta: Textual and Intertextual Studies, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 121:3 (2001), 502-3

16.Review of: J. I. Rubenstein, Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture, in: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 69:4 (2002), 953-6.

17.Review of: M. L. Satlow, Jewish Marriage in Antiquity, in: The Journal of Religion, 83:1 (January 2003), 162-4.

18.Review of: A. Cohen, Ravina ve-Hakhmei Doro, in: Jewish Quarterly Review 93:3-4 (2003), 675-7.

19.Review of: M. Lockshin, Rashbam’s Commentary to Leviticus and Numbers; in: Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, 32, 1-2 (2003), 212-4.

20.Review of: P. Heger, The Pluralistic Halakhah: Legal Innovations in the Late Second Commonwealth and Rabbinic Periods, in: Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, 32:4 (2003), 520-2.

21.Review of: A. Goldberg, Tosefta Bava Kamma: A Structural and Analytic Commentary with a Mishna-Tosefta Synopsis, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 123.1 (2003), 662-4.

22.Review of: E. Diamond, Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture, in: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73:3 (2005), 911-913.  

Publications: Miscellaneous

Other Publications

Children’s Book:

1. Uncle Eli’s Passover Haggadah, San Francisco: No Starch Press, 1999.

More than 350 feature articles on Jewish history and tradition published in the Calgary Jewish Star, Jewish Free Press and other venues since 1987.