Simcha
Gross
University of Pennsylvania
Honorary Distinguished Fellowship
Research Topic
Babylonian Jewish Law and Society beyond Institutionalization
Bio
Simcha Gross is assistant professor of Ancient Rabbinics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a specialist in ancient and early medieval Jewish history, with a particular focus on the contextual study of the rabbis and rabbinic literature in their Persian and Islamic contexts. He also specializes in the study of Syriac Christianity.
Gross received his PhD at Yale University. He has previously taught at the University of California, Irvine and at Stanford University.
Selected publications
- The History of the 'Slave of Christ': From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr (Gorgias Press, 2016)
- Edited, Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First Millennium (Mohr Siebeck, 2020)
