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Sara
Japhet

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished FellowshipErika A. Strauss Teaching Fellowship
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowship
Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship

Research Topic

Ger and Conversion in Biblical Literature and Classical Biblical Exegesis

The Song of Songs in Medieval Northern France Peshat Exegesis

Biblical Historiography

Fellowship

2010–2011
Converts and Conversion To and From Judaism

Examining the boundary between Judaism and other religions with a concurrent study of parallel social and religious phenomena and historical contexts.

2001–2002
Biblical Exegesis in a Comparative Context: Jewish, Christian, Islamic

Examining the various modes of scriptural interpretation in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.

1994–1995
History - Remembered, Recovered, Invented: Historical Memory and the Construction of Tradition

Taking stock of the distinctive properties of, and putative boundary between, traditional memory and modern critical history.