Yaakov Elman
| Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Elman | |
|---|---|
| Position | Professor of Judaic studies at the Bernard Revel Graduate School |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1943 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Denomination | Orthodox Judaism |
| Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
Yaakov Elman (born 1943) is a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies where he holds the Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Chair in Talmudic Studies. He is the founder of the field now known as Talmudo-Iranica, which seeks to understand the Babylonian Talmud in its Middle-Persian context.
Education
Elman received his MA in Assyriology from Columbia University and his PhD in Talmud from New York University.
Publications
Authored:
- Authority and Tradition: Toseftan Baraitot in Talmudic Babylonia
- The Living Nach: The Later Prophets
- Reading the Hebrew Bible: Two Millennia of Jewish Biblical Commentary
Edited:
- Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion (Studies in Jewish Culture and Society)
- Dream Interpretation from Classical Jewish Sources
- Immortality, Resurrection and the Age of the Universe: A Kabbalistic View
- Why Jews Do What They Do: The History of Jewish Customs Throughout the Cycle of the Jewish Year
Research Interests
His research interests center around Talmud and rabbinic literature of nearly all periods and genres, including rabbinic theology, unfolding systems of rabbinic legal exegesis, and the cultural context of classical rabbinic texts. He is researching the relation of the Babylonian Jewish community of Talmudic times to the surrounding Middle Persian culture and religions.