Yaakov
Elman

Yeshiva University

Research Topic

Orality and Canon in Talmudic Babylonia

Fellowship

2007–2008

Focusing on the imperial context of Judaism in Antiquity, in a decidedly interdisciplinary mode.

1995–1996

Looking at the relationship of oral and written modes of cultural transmission, the relative values of these modes in different Jewish cultural moments and locales, and the relationship of transmission to authority.