Eliezer Segal

• By appointment

◦ Rabbinic literature: text and redaction (especially Babylonian Talmud) ◦ The literary-rhetorical structures of Jewish biblical exegesis: The relationships between form, content and ideas [including the differences between Babylonian and Palestinian midrash] ◦ Jewish religious law, ritual and ethics ◦ Ancient Judaism in its Hellenistic setting

• "Ring of Polycrates" motif in ancient religious literature (Herodotus, Matthew, Talmud, Midrash, Augustine) 
• Adaptation of Greek literary motifs in Rabbinic texts

• Courses
• Supervised Students