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Michael L. Satlow
Associate Professor
Program in Judaic Studies/Department of Religious Studies
Box 1826
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-3911 (o); (401) 863-3938 (fax); (401) 421-0933 (h)
Michael_Satlow@Brown.edu
EDUCATION
1987-1993 Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York. Ph.D. (with distinction) in Ancient Judaism. Advisor: Shaye J. D. Cohen. Dissertation: Talking about Sex: Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality
1989-1991 Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Visiting graduate and research student
1982-1986 Yale University. B.A. in Judaic Studies; distinction in the major
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2002- Associate Professsor, Department of Religious Studies and Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University
2000-2002 Core faculty, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture
1999-2002 Associate Professor: Dept. of Religious Studies, Indiana University; Adjunct Associate Professor, Jewish Studies Program
1994-1999 Assistant Professor: Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
1993-1994 Visiting Assistant Professor; Judaic Studies Program, University of Cincinnati.
PUBLICATIONS
Judaism: A Family of Traditions (in preparation and under contract, Columbia University Press)
Jewish Marriage in Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2001)
Tasting the Dish: Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality (Brown Judaic Studies; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995)
"Marriage Payments and Succession Strategies in the Documents from the Judaean Desert," forthcoming in volume of conference papers ed. by Ranon Katzoff
"Marriage, Sexuality, and the Family," forthcoming in Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 4, edited by Steven Katz, et al.
"Male or Female Did They Create It? Gender and the Judaism of the Sage," in Continuity and Renewal: Jews and Judaism in Byzantine-Christian Palestine, ed., Lee I Levine (Jerusalem and New York: Dinur Center for the Study of Jewish History, Yad Ben-Zvi Press, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2004), pp. 486-504 (in Hebrew)
"Slipping Towards Sacrament: Jews, Christians, and Marriage," in Jewish Culture and Society Under the Christian Roman Empire, ed. by Richard Kalmin and Seth Schwartz (JTS Press and Peeters, 2003), pp. 65-89
"Fictional Women: A Study in Stereotypes," in The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture III, ed. by Peter Schfer (Tbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002), pp. 225-43
"'Oral Torah': Reading Jewish Texts Jewishly in Reform Judaism," in Platforms and Prayer Books: Theological and Liturgical Perspectives on Reform Judaism, ed. by Dana Evan Kaplan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), pp. 261-270
"The Metaphor of Marriage in Early Judaism," in Families in the Ancient Near Easter World, the Hebrew Bible and the Judaism and Christianity in Early Antiquity, ed. by Athalya Brenner and Jan Willem van Henten (Star 2; Leiden: Deo, 2000), pp. 13-42
Revised Shaye J. D. Cohen, "Roman Domination: the Jewish Revolt and the Destruction of the Second Temple," in Ancient Israel, rev. ed., ed. H. Shanks (Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1999), pp. 265-98
"Rhetoric and Assumptions: Rabbis and Romans on Sex," in The Jews in the Graeco-Roman World, ed. by Martin Goodman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 135-44
"Sex and Shame in Late-Antique Judaism," in Asceticism, ed. Vincent L Wimbush and Richard Valantasis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 538-43
"Reconsidering the Rabbinic ketubah Payment," in The Jewish Family in Antiquity, ed. Shaye J. D. Cohen (Brown Judaic Studies; Atlanta: Scholars Press), pp. 133-51
"Etz Hayim, Sex and the Paths not Taken," forthcoming in Conservative Judaism
"And on the Earth You Shall Sleep: Talmud Torah and Rabbinic Asceticism," Journal of Religion, 83 (2003): 204-25
"Jewish Marriage: The Evidence of the Inscriptions," in Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division B, History of the Jewish People (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 2000), pp. 17*-24*
"'One Who Loves his Wife Like Himself': Love in Rabbinic Marriage," Journal of Jewish Studies 49 (1998): 67-87
"4Q502: A New Years Ritual?" Dead Sea Discoveries 5 (1998): 57-68
"Jewish Constructions of Nakedness in Late Antiquity," Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1997): 429-54
"A Historical Source? b. Baba Batra 7b-8a," Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 28 (1997): 314-20
"Jewish Knowing: Monism and its Ramifications," Judaism 45:4 (1996): 483-89
"'Try to Be a Man': The Rabbinic Construction of Masculinity," Harvard Theological Review 89 (1996): 19-40
"'Texts of Terror': Rabbinic Texts, Speech Acts, and the Control of Mores," AJS Review 21 (1996): 273-97
"'Wasted Seed': The History of a Rabbinic Idea," Hebrew Union College Annual 65 (1994):137-75
"'They Abused Him Like a Woman': Homoeroticism, Gender Blurring, and the Rabbis in Late Antiquity," Journal of the History of Sexuality 5 (1994): 1-25
Charlotte Fonrobert, Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender, and Jonathan Klawans, Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism, in Journal of Jewish Studies 53 (2002): 172-174
Tal Ilan, Integrating Women into Second Temple History, in Jewish Quarterly Review 92 (2002): 647-49
Entries on "Gender," "Marriage," and "Sex" in The Reader's Guide to Judaism, ed. Michael Terry (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), pp. 198-200, 395-96, 555-56
Hyam Maccoby, Ritual and Morality: The Ritual Purity System and its Place in Judaism, in Review of Biblical Literature: http://www.bookreviews.org/Reviews/0521495407.html
N. S. Hecht, et al., An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law, in Shofar 18 (2000): 166-68
John H. Hayes and Sara R. Mandell, The Jewish People in Classical Antiquity: From Alexander to Bar Kochba, in Biblical Archaeology Review 26.4(2000): 59-60
Christine Hayes, Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds, in Hebrew Studies 40 (1999): 362-65
Hayim Lapin, Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee: A Study of Mishnah Tractate Baba Mesia, in Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998): 132-34
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods, in Religious Studies Review 22 (1996): 355
Jonathan Goldberg, ed. Reclaiming Sodom, in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6 (1995): 124-26
David Biale, Eros and the Jews, in Shofar 12 (1994): 114-16
Daniel Boyarin, Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture, in Journal of the History of Sexuality 5 (1994): 297-300
"Inscriptions from the Land of Israel: An Internet Prototype," at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n/home.html
INVITED LECTURES
Respondant, "The State of the Field in the History of Judaism II: Social and Political History," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting (December, 2003)
"'If You Want to Be Perfect': Perfection and the Jews of Antiquity," given at the University of Notre Dame (November, 2003)
"Beyond Influence: Explaining Similarity and Difference Among Jews in Antiquity," given at a conference entitled "Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext," sponsored by the Fraenkel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan (November, 2003)
"A People of Philosophers: Jews, Greeks, and Self-Identity," given at the Culture and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean Seminar (Brown, September, 2003)
"Giving for a Return: Jewish Votive Offerings in Late Antiquity," given at the Judaic Studies Colloquium (Brown, February, 2003) and at a conference entitled "The Religious Self in Antiquity," at Indiana University (September, 2003)
Respondant, session on Jewish culture in Roman and Byzantine Palestine, History and Literature of Rabbinic Judaism Section, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November, 2002
"Adam, Eve, and Jewish Marriage in Antiquity," given at McGill University, February, 2002
"And on the Earth You Shall Sleep: Talmud Torah and Rabbinic Asceticism," given at Brown University, January, 2002
Respondant, session on food among Jews in antiquity, Hellentistic Judaism Section, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November 2001
"Fictional Women: The Construction of the Woman in Roman Palestine," given at a conference on "The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture, November, 2000
Review of Daniel Boyarin, Unheroic Conduct, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, November, 2000
"'As Difficult as Splitting the Sea of Reeds': Jews, Matchmaking, and Marriage in Antiquity," given at Washington University, March, 2000
"Slouching Toward Sacrament: Jews, Christians, and Marriage," given at conference on "Jewish Society and Culture under Christian Rome," (JTS; New York), March, 2000
"Male or Female Did He Create it? The Gendering of Rabbinic Judaism," given in Jerusalem, July, 1999 (in Hebrew)
"Marriage, Myth, and Metaphor: Marital Ideologies in Early Judaisms," given at Colloquium on the Ancient Family in Amsterdam, June, 1998
"Marriage Payments and Succession Strategies in the Documents from the Judaean Desert," given at conference on Law in the Judaean Desert Papyri, Bar-Ilan University, June, 1998
"Why Marry? Jewish Ideologies of Marriage in the Talmudic Period," given at the School of History, Tel Aviv University, January, 1998
"Jewish Constructions of Nakedness in Late Antiquity," given at AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, 1995
"Rhetoric and Assumptions: Rabbis and Romans on Sex," given at colloquium on "Jews in the Graeco-Roman World," sponsored by the British Association of Jewish Studies, Oxford, July, 1995
"Constructing the Male in Late-Antique Judaism," given at AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, 1994
Respondant in session on Homosexuality in the Bible, at North American Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Conference, 1994
"Sex and Shame in Late-Antique Judaism," given at an International Conference on Asceticism, Union Theological Seminary, New York, April, 1993
"Sex in the Talmud," given at a conference on Jewish law and sexuality, Harvard Law School, April, 1993
"Reconsidering the Rabbinic Ketubah Payment," given at AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, 1990
ACADEMIC HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2003-4 Scholarly Technology Group grant, Brown University
2001, 2002 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University
2000 Grant in Aid, Indiana University
1999 Emergency Grant in Aid, Indiana University
1998- Corresponding Fellow, Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
1998- Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia (also for 1996 and 1995)
1997-98 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
1996-97 Resident Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia (grant to develop internet project)
1996-97 University Teaching Fellowship, University of Virginia
1995-96 Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
Brown University: Introduction to Judaism (F 2003); Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls (F 2003); The Making of Judaism (S 2003); Sifra (S 2003); Introduction to Rabbinic Literature (F 2003); Adam and Eve in Early Jewish and Christian Writings (F 2002)
SERVICE
Graduate Advisor, Religious Studies (2004- );Concentration advisor, Judaic Studies (F 2003); Library liason, Judaic Studies (2003- ); Computing Advisory Board, Brown University (2003- ); Chair of the History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism section of the Society of Biblical Literature (2001- )
RECENT ADULT EDUCATION AND COMMUNAL SERVICE
Lectured on "The Beginning of Jewish Sex" for the CJP in Boston (March, 2004); taught Me'ah in New Bedford (2003/4); lecture and teach adult education at Temple Emanu-El (Providence); conducted the Kallah of the RI Board of Rabbis; serve on the board of the Providence Hebrew Day School
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