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Christine
Hayes
Professor
of Classical Judaica
Office:
Department of Religious Studies
Yale University
451 College Street
P.O. Box 208287
New Haven, CT 06520-8287
Tel: (203) 432-0828
Fax: (203) 432-7844
E-mail: christine.hayes@yale.edu
Education
| Professional Appointments | Areas
of Specialization | Areas of Competence
| Awards | Professional Affiliations
and Service | Publications | Selected
Conference Presentations and Colloquia | Sample
Course Offerings | Public Lectures
| University Service
Education
University of California,
Berkeley. Ph.D. in Talmudic and Judaic Studies (Dept. of Near
Eastern Studies), 1993.
University
of California, Berkeley. M.A. with Distinction, 1988.
Hebrew
University in Jerusalem. One year of graduate course work,
1987-88.
Harvard
University. B.A. summa cum laude in The Study of Religions,
1984.
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Professional
Appointments
Professor of Religious
Studies in Classical Judaica, Yale University, 2002-present.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica,
Yale University, 1999-2002.
Assistant
Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica, Yale
University, 1996-1999.
Assistant
Professor of Hebrew Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies,
Princeton University, 1993-1996.
Instructor,
Yale University, 1993.
Teaching
Assistant and Instructor, UC Berkeley, 1989 and 1991.
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Areas
of Specialization
Talmudic-midrashic
studies; History and Literature of Judaism in Late Antiquity.
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Areas
of Competence
Hebrew Bible; Biblical
exegesis in antiquity; Medieval Jewish Exegesis; Hebrew and
Aramaic Languages.
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Awards
New Directions Fellowship
from the Mellon Foundation, to support a year of study at
the Yale School of Law in 2005-2006.
2003 National Jewish
Book Award finalist in the category of scholarship for Gentile
Impurities and Jewish Identities (Oxford, 2002).
The Salo Baron Prize
for a first book in Jewish Thought and Literature, presented
by the American Academy of Jewish Research, 1999.
Hilles
Publication Grant, 2001
Lucius
Littauer Foundation Publication Grant, 2001
Morse
Research Fellowship, Yale University, 1998-1999 academic year.
U.C.
Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1992-93.
Charlotte
Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-92.
Taubman
Fellowship for Talmudic Studies, 1990-91.
Phi
Beta Kappa
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Professional
Affiliations and Service
Member:
Association
for Jewish Studies
Society of Biblical Literature
American Academy of Religion.
Board
Member, Association for Jewish Studies. 2001-2003
Conference
Program Planning Committee Member, Association for Jewish
Studies. 1994-present
Editorial
Board Member, Brown Judaic Studies (peer-reviewed monograph
series)
Corresponding Fellow, Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem
Studies, Bar Ilan University,
Israel.
Advisory
Board Member, Yale Judaica Series, Yale University Press.
Participant,
NEH Summer Institute for Teachers of Modern Hebrew, Brandeis
University. July, 1993.
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Publications
Books
Between the
Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds, Oxford University
Press, 1997. Awarded the Salo Baron Prize for a first book
in Jewish Thought and Literature, by the American Academy
for Jewish Research, 1999.
Gentile
Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion
from the Bible to the Talmud, Oxford University Press,
2002.
Other Publications
“Authority and Anxiety in the Talmuds: Legal Fictions.”
Jewish Religious Leadership: Images and Reality.
(New York; JTSA, 2004).
“Golden Calf Stories: The Relationship of Ex 32 and
Deut 9-10” in The Idea of Biblical Interpretation:
Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel, ed. Hindy Najman and
Judith H. Newman (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Pp. 45-94.
"Genealogy, Illegitimacy, and Personal Status: The Yerushalmi
in Comparative Perspective." The Talmud Yerushalmi
and Graeco-Roman Culture, III ed. P. Schäfer (Tubingen:
J.C.B.Mohr, 2003) 73-90.
“Palestinian Rabbinic Attitudes to Intermarriage in
Historical and Cultural Context.” Jewish Culture
and Society under the Christian Roman Empire. Ed. Seth
Schwartz and Richard Kalmin. (Leuven: Peeters, 2003) 11-64.
"Do Converts to Judaism Require Purification? M. Pes
8:8 -- An Interpretative Crux Solved." Jewish Studies
Quarterly, 9 (2002) 3:240-
"Halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai in Rabbinic Sources:
A Methodological Case Study." The Synoptic Problem
in Rabbinic Literature, ed. Shaye J. D. Cohen (Providence,
RI: Brown Judaic Studies). 2000:61-118.
"Parallelism
and Inversion in Lev 21:1b-15" in Leviticus 17-22, by
Jacob Milgrom. The Anchor Bible. (New York: Doubleday).
2000:1834-1836.
"Judeophobia:
Peter Schäfer on the Origins of Anti-Semitism."
Jewish Studies Quarterly, 6 (1999) 3:261-273.
"Intermarriage
and Impurity in Ancient Jewish Sources." Harvard
Theological Review 92:1 (1999) 3-36.
"The
Abrogation of Torah Law: Rabbinic Taqqanah and Praetorian
Edict." The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture,
ed. P. Schäfer (Tubingen: J.C.B.Mohr). 1998:643-674.
"Displaced
Self-Perceptions: The Deployment of Minim and Romans in Bavli
Sanhedrin 90b-91a." Religious and Ethnic Communities
in Later Roman Palestine. Ed. Hayim Lapin. 1998:249-289.
"Response
to Jacob Neusner." Journal for the Study of Judaism,
27/3 (1996) 324-333.
"Amoraic
Interpretation and Halakhic Development: The Case of the Prohibited
Basilica." Journal for the Study of Judaism,
26/2 (1995) 156-168.
"The
Midrashic Career of the Confession of Judah (Genesis xxxviii
26), Part I: The Extra-Canonical Texts, Targums and Other
Versions." Vetus Testamentum 45/1 (1995) 62-81.
"The
Midrashic Career of the Confession of Judah (Genesis xxxviii
26), Part II: The Rabbinic Midrashim." Vetus Testamentum
45/2 (1995) 174-187.
"Word
Order in Biblical Aramaic." JAGNES (Journal
of the Assoc. of Grad. Near East. Stud.), Fall 1990:2-12.
Reviews and Review Essays
Review
of Hyam Maccoby's Ritual and Morality: The Ritual Purity
System and its Place in Judaism. Forthcoming in The Jewish
Quarterly Review, 92 (2002) 3-4:18-24.
Review
of Charlotte Fonrobert's Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and
Christian Reconstruction of Biblical Gender. Journal of the
History of Sexuality, 10 (2001) 3-4:547-553.
Review
of Moshe Benovitz' Kol Nidre: Studies in the Development
of Rabbinic Votive Institutions in The Jewish Quarterly
Review 92 (2001) 1-2: 219-221.
Review
of Jeffrey Rubenstein's Talmudic Stories. HaDoar
80 (2001) 4:18-20 (in Hebrew)
Review
of Richard Kalmin's The Sage in Jewish Society of Late
Antiquity. Journal of Biblical Literature 120 (2001)
3:589-591.
Review
of Hayim Lapin's Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social
History of Roman Galilee: A Study of Mishnah Tractate Baba
Mesi a. The Jewish Quarterly Review LXXXIX (1998)
1-2:199-204.
Review
of Richard Kalmin's Sages, Stories, Authors and Editors
in Rabbinic Babylonia. The Jewish Quarterly Review LXXXVII
(1997) 3-4, pp. 406-411.
Review
of Jeffrey Rubenstein's The History of Sukkot in the Second
Temple and Rabbinic Periods. Journal of Biblical Literature
on-line (1996).
Review
of Angel Sáenz-Badillos' A History of the Hebrew
Language. Shofar 13 (1995) 3:101-103.
Review
of David Kraemer's The Mind of the Talmud. JAGNES,
Fall, 1991:44-48.
Several
book notes for Religious Studies Review.
Contributor
to the Oxford Dictionary of Judaism (New York: Oxford
University Press).
Forthcoming Publications
“Rabbis and their Jewish and Gentile Others.”
Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Rabbinic Literature,
ed. Martin Jaffee and Charlotte Fonrobert (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press).
Rabbinic
Authority, Rabbinic Anxiety. Monograph examining rabbinic
attitudes towards the radical exercise of legislative and
interpretative authority.
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Selected
Conference Presentations and Colloquia
“Children’s
Obligations towards Parents in the Bible and Talmud.”
Perspectives on Aging Working Group, Yale University, May
2004.
“Hyam Maccoby on Purity.” Association for Jewish
Studies (AJS) annual conference, 2003.
"The Impact of Editorial Strategies on Evolving Legal
Collections." Respondent to three scholarly papers. Association
for Jewish Studies (AJS) annual conference, 2001.
"Authority and Anxiety in the Talmuds." Conference
on Jewish Religious Leadership: Image and Reality. Jewish
Theological Seminary, Fall 2001.
"B.
Yev 87b-90b: The Bavli's re-presentation of rabbinic authority."
AJS annual conference, 2000
"Genealogy,
Illegitimacy, and Personal Status: The Yerushalmi in Comparative
Perspective." Conference on the Talmud Yerushalmi and
Graeco-Roman Culture. Princeton University, November 2000.
"Competing
Calumnies: Contextualizing the Rabbinic Prohibition of Intermarriage."
Rabbinics Colloquium Series. Washington University. March,
2000.
"Palestinian
Rabbinic Attitudes to Intermarriage in Historical and Cultural
Context" Conference on Jewish Culture and Society under
Christian Rome. Jewish Theological Seminary, NY, Mar 2000.
"Corpse
Impurity and the Noahide Covenant in the Theology of H."
AJS annual meeting, 1999.
"Do
Converts to Judaism Require Purification? M. Pes 8:8 -- an
Interpretive Crux Solved." SBL annual meeting, 1999.
"Corpse
Impurity and Gentiles: The Rabbinic Evidence." Conference
on Rabbinic Thought. The Melton Center of the Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, Israel. May, 1999.
"Judeophobia:
Peter Schäfer on the Origins of Anti-Semitism."
AJS annual meeting, 1998.
"Intermarriage
and Impurity in Ancient Jewish Sources." Rutgers University,
May 1998.
"Halakhah
le-Moshe Mi-Sinai: A Methodological Case Study."
Conference on the Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature,
Brown University. March 1998.
"Intermarriage
and Impurity: From Bible to Talmud." AJS annual conference,
1996.
"Legal
Innovation in the Yerushalmi." Conference on the Yerushalmi
in its Greco-Roman Context. Institut für Judaistik, Berlin.
October, 1996.
"The
Impurity of Gentiles in Biblical and Post-Biblical Jewish
Writings." Invited seminar paper, Biblical Law Section,
SBL annual meeting, 1995.
"Reading
Readings: History and Hermeneutics in Talmudic Literature."
Department of Near Eastern Studies, Harvard University, spring
1994.
"From
Innovation to Exegesis: Revisionist Rabbinic Accounts of the
Taqqanot of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai." AJS
annual conference, 1993.
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Sample
Course Offerings (Yale University and Princeton University)
The Required Second
Temple Judaism Seminar. (graduate)
Critical
Methods in the Study of Talmud. (graduate)
Biblical
Hebrew for Students of Modern Hebrew. (undergraduate)
Introduction
to the Talmud in Translation. (undergraduate)
Topics
in Bible and Midrash. (undergraduate/graduate text seminar)
Talmud
Seminar. (undergraduate/graduate)
Introduction
to the Hebrew Bible. (undergraduate)
Judaism:
Continuity and Change. (undergraduate)
Introduction
to the Ancient Near East. (undergraduate)
Aramaic.
(graduate)
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Public
Lectures
"Realizing
the Promise: The Legacy of Sinai." Series of three lectures
as Scholar-in Residence for the Town and Village Conservative
Synagogue, Manhattan. May 16-17, 2002
"Innovation
in Jewish Law: The Bible in Mishnaic and Talmudic Times."
The Charles B. and Irene B. Jacobs Lecture for the Center
for Judaic Studies. University of Hartford. September, 2000.
"'The
Torah is not in Heaven:' Tradition and Change." The Matthew
Eisenfeld (Yale, '93) Memorial Lecture. Temple Beth-El, Hartford,
CT. May, 1999.
"Law
as Theology: The Case of Niddah." Connecticut Regional
Rabbinical Assembly. June, 1997.
"Divergent
Attitudes to Menstruation: Ancient Voices." National
Jewish Women's Conference, 1997.
"The
Moses of Midrash." Princeton Jewish Center, Lecture Series.
Spring, 1995.
"'The
Torah is not in Heaven': Tradition and Change." B'nai
Brith Continuing Education. Fall, 1994.
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University
Service
Committee on Majors,
2003-2005.
Yale College Dean
Search Committee, fall 2003.
Yale College Committee
(Dean's committee on undergraduate education at Yale) 2001-2003.
Harry
S Truman Scholarship Committee. Chair, Fall 2001; Member,
Fall 2000.
Search
Committees (Historical Theology position, 2003-2004; Islam
position, fall 1999; Methods and Theory position, 2000-2001).
Director
of Undergraduate Studies, Judaic Studies. Spring 1997, 1999-present.
Director
of Undergraduate Studies, Religious Studies. 2001-2002.
Undergraduate
Committee, Department of Religious Studies. 1997-2000; Chair
2001-2.
Freshman
Advisor, Silliman College. 1997-present.
Advisory
Committee for Library Policy. 1999-2001.
Judaic
Studies Advisory Committee. 1996-present.
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