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Michael Avioz is Full Professor at the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on biblical historiography and early biblical interpretation. He is the author of three books and numerous scholarly articles. His books include: Nathan’s Oracle (2 Samuel 7) and its Interpreters (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005); I Sat Alone: Jeremiah Among the Prophets (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009); Josephus’ Interpretation of the Books of Samuel (London: Bloomsbury, 2015). His most recent book is Legal Exegesis of Scripture in the Works of Josephus (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).
Daniel Bodi is Professor of History of Religions of Antiquity in the History Department at Sorbonne – University Paris 4. He received his ThD from the University of Strasbourg (1983), his PhD from Union Theological Seminary in New York (1988), and his Habilitation from Sorbonne Université – University of Paris 4 (Paris, 1996). His fields of interest include: David’s four wives, Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba and Abishag in the light of Amorite matrimonial practices; Gender Studies in a comparative perspective; the study of the Exilic and Persian periods (Ezekiel, Ezra–Nehemiah) and of the Aramaic Aḥiqar proverbs in their ancient Near Eastern background. His main publications are: The Michal Affair. From Zimri-Lim to the Rabbis (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005); The Demise of the Warlord: A New Look at the David Story (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010); Israëlet Juda à l’ombre des Babylonienset des Perses (Paris: De Boccard, 2010).
Jan Doktór holds an MPhil from the Faculty of Economics (University of Warsaw, 1976) and a PhD from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1990). His doctoral dissertation “Messianic Teaching of Jacob Frank as a Response to the Crisis of Religious Tradition among the Eighteenth-century Polish Jews” was published in 1991 as: Jacob Frank and his Teaching. He is currently a researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and the chief editor of an academic journal Jewish History Quarterly. Among his publications are: In the Footsteps of the Apostate-Messiah. Jewish Messianic Movements in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Wroclaw 1998); The Beginnings of PolishHasidism (Warsaw 2004; Toruń 2017), Missionaries and Jews in the Time of Messianic Upheaval in 1648–1792 (Warsaw 2012); (with Magdalena Bendowska) The Amsterdam of Polish Jews (Warsaw 2016).
Barbara Gryczan is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw (since 2019). She holds a PhD in Oriental Studies (University of Warsaw, 2016). Her dissertation was devoted to the study and analysis of the verbal system of medieval Hebrew as exemplified in Judah Halevi’s poetry. The results of her research on the subject were published in a paper “Verbal system: Medieval Hebrew Poetry” which appeared in the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Leiden: Brill, 2012). Her areas of interest and expertise include linguistics (history of the Hebrew language), Hebrew literature (especially medieval Hebrew poetry), and literary translations into Polish. She has been publishing literary translations of medieval Hebrew poems in Polish literary journals. Currently, she is working in a research project Hebrew Poetry of the Golden Age in al-Andalus. An Anthology, sponsored by the National Humanities Development Program
Miriam L. Hjälm is Assistant Professor in Eastern Christian Studies at Sankt Ignatios College and Stockholm School of Theology (Enkilda Högskola Stockholm). She holds a PhD in Semitic Languages from Uppsala University (2015) where she wrote her dissertation on translation techniques in Arabic Bible translations. It was published as Christian Arabic Versions of Daniel: A Comparative Study of Early MSS and Translation Techniques in MSS Sinai Ar. 1 and 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2016). As a post-doctoral research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich she took part in “Biblia Arabica” project (2015–2017). The results of her research have for instance appeared in The Textual History of the Bible, vols. 1–3, eds. A. Lange et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2016–) and in her edited volume Senses of Scriptures, Treasures of Traditions: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims (Leiden: Brill, 2017). Currently, her research, funded by the Swedish Research Council, concerns the perception, use and interpretation of the Bible among early Arabic-speaking Christians in an interreligious context.
Ruth Mazo Karras is Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin. She is a historian of gender and sexuality in medieval Europe. She is the author of Medieval European Sexualities:DoingUntoOthers,Unmarriages:Men,Women and SexualUnionsin Medieval Europe, and most recently Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), amongst other books and articles. She served for 25 years as General Editor of the Middle Ages Series at the University of Pennsylvania Press, and in 2019–2020 was the President of the Medieval Academy of America.
Marianna Klar received her DPhil from the University of Oxford (2002) and is currently Post-Doctoral Researcher at Oxford University, Senior Research Associate at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS, University of London. Her most recent publications focus on the Qurʾān’s structure, narratives, and literary context. She has also worked extensively on tales of the prophets within the medieval Islamic historiographical tradition and on Qurʾān exegesis. Her monograph on al-Ṯaʿlabī’s Tales of the Prophets was published in 2009, followed by an edited volume, Structural Dividers in the Qurʾān, published in 2021.
Elżbieta Lazarewicz-Wyrzykowska is a Research Associate at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, working on a project dedicated to creating a new vision of biblical formation in the Catholic Church, and is also affiliated at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. She studied in Poland, Israel and England, and holds a PhD in Biblical Studies from the University of Manchester (2009). Her research interests include biblical masculinities, prophecy, reception of biblical texts in visual arts, music and liturgies, as well as in the contemporary Catholic liturgical readings. She published a paper on “Samson: Masculinity Lost (and Regained?)” in Men and Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond, edited by Ovidiu Creanga (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), and is working on a book based on her doctoral thesis, Author, Hero and Aesthetic Love: How Can Bakhtin Help Us Understand Amos?
Diana Lipton read English Literature at Oxford University and completed a PhD in Hebrew Bible at Cambridge University. She was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge (1997–2006), and Lecturer and then Reader in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at King’s College London (2007–2011). Since moving to Israel in 2011, she has taught at Hebrew University’s International School and, currently, at Tel Aviv University. Diana’s published books include Revisions of the Night: Politics and Promises in the Patriarchal Dreams of Genesis (1999); Longing for Egypt and Other Unexpected Biblical Tales (2008), Lamentations Through the Centuries (2012, with Paul Joyce), From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah (2018), and several edited collections. She has two sons, and lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Chaim Milikowsky.
Orly Mizrachi completed her PhD at Haifa University in 2014. She is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Israel Studies at Haifa University and in the Department of Land of Israel Studies at Tel-Hai College. Currently, she is also a post-doctoral research fellow in the project “The Davidic Narratives and David’s Portrayal in Medieval Jewish Translation and Exegesis, A Comparative Approach” supported by the Israel Science Foundation (PI: Meira Polliack, Department of Biblical Studies, Tel-Aviv University 2017–2021). Her research interests focus on early Christianity, especially Syriac Churches in the pre-Islamic period. She has collaborated with researchers in other scholarly fields (e.g., Christian Galilee in Late Antiquity at Kinneret Academic College). Her publications include: “The Story of David and Bathsheba in Rabbinic Literature and Syriac Christianity” [in Hebrew]. Zion –Quarterly for Research in JewishHistory, 84.3 (2019): 311–333.
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala is Professor in Semitic languages at the University of Cordoba. He holds a PhD from the University of Granada (1996), and specializes in Semitic languages, as well as medieval religious minorities in the Iberian Peninsula and the Middle East. His research focuses on editing, translating and studying medieval Arabic Manuscripts. He has published (in Spanish, English, French and Catalonian) forty-two books, twenty-two as editor or co-editor, eighty-two book chapters, one hundred and seventy-five articles, forty-eight entries for different Encyclopaedias and two hundred and fifty-four reviews. He has also collaborated in bibliographical projects on Christian-Muslim relations in and outside Spain.
Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò holds an MPhil (1997) and PhD (2003) in History from the University of Warsaw and is currently the Head of the Faculty of History. He has published extensively on the history of the Ancient Near East, especially Ancient Judah and Israel, biblical historiography, and relationships between Greek and Biblical worlds. Among his most important publications are: Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament. A Study of Aetiological Narratives (London – New York: Routledge 2016), and Goliath’s Legacy. Philistines and Hebrews in Biblical Times (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2016). He also co-edited (with Chiara Peri and Jim West), Finding Myth and History in the Bible. Scholarship, Scholars and Errors. Essays in honor of Giovanni Garbini (Sheffield – Oakville: Equinox Publishing 2016), and (with Marek Węcowski), Change, Continuity, and Connectivity. North-Eastern Mediterranean at the turn of the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2018).
Sivan Nir is interested in the hermeneutics of late Midrash, medieval Bible exegesis, interreligious discourses and the literary study of the Bible. He completed his PhD dissertation on the poetics of characterization in medieval Jewish exegetical literature at Tel Aviv University (2019). He was a doctoral research fellow at Tel Aviv University, funded by the DFG project “Biblia Arabica” (PI s: Adang and Polliack). Nir co-authored articles on Saʿadia Gaon and Yefet ben ʿEli’s views on metaphor: (with Meira Polliack), “ ‘Many Beautiful Meanings can be Drawn from such a Comparison’: On the Medieval Interaction View of Biblical Metaphor in Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts,” in Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 51–100; (with Amir Ashur and Meira Polliack), “Three Fragments of Saʿadya Gaon’s Arabic Translation of Isaiah copied by the Court Scribe Joseph ben Samuel (c. 1181–1209),” in Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 485–508.
Zsuzsanna Olach is Research Associate in the KaraimBIBLE project and Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. She studied Turkology at the University of Szeged and holds a PhD in Turkic linguistics from the Uppsala University (2012). She was an Assistant Research Fellow (2012–2014) and a Research Fellow (2014–2016) in the Turkological Research Group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Szeged, where she also worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Altaic Studies (in 2016–2018). In 2014–2016 she conducted a research project The Jewish culture and its literature among Karaims: The Song of Moses sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her interests include comparative linguistics and language contacts. She has published many articles and a monograph, A Halich Karaim Translation of Hebrew Biblical Texts (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013)
Meira Polliack is Professor of Bible at Tel Aviv University. Her MPhil (1989) and PhD (1993), both from the University of Cambridge, analyzed Cairo Genizah sources in connection to the Hebrew Bible, as well as Medieval Judeo-Arabic Bible translations, focusing in particular on the Karaite tradition in comparison with Saʿadia. To these issues she devoted her first monograph: The Karaite Tradition of Arabic Bible Translation: A Linguistic and Exegetical Study of the Karaite Translations of the Pentateuch from the Tenth to the Eleventh (Leiden: Brill, 1997). She has since published extensively on the Karaite contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of the Jews in the medieval Islamic world, on medieval Bible exegesis in general, on the Islamic impact on the development of Jewish hermeneutics and on conceptions of biblical narrative. During 2012– 2018 she served as one of the principal investigators of the internationally-led Biblia Arabica: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims research project.
Associate Professor at the Department of History of Culture, Faculty of Culture and Arts, University of Warsaw and specializes in different ideological and religious aspects of medieval French history. He has been guest lecturer at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at the University of Nantes, at Université Lumière Lyon 2, and at Comenius Universisty in Bratislava. He is recipient of numerous awards (the Aleksander Gieysztor Award in 2002, the “Clio” Award in 2013, and the Award of the Prime Minister of Poland in 2014). Among his most important books are The King and the Crown of Thorns: Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France (Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2012 [in Polish]; English, revised version, Pieterlen and Bern: Peter Lang, 2020), and (edited with Ph. Josserand), À la rencontre del’Autre au Moyen Âge. In memoriam Jacques Le Goff. Actes des premières Assises franco-polonaises d’histoire médiévale (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2017).
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford (2002), and is currently Professor in Old Testament at Örebro School of Theology, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has published widely on the prophetic literature, including two monographs on the book of Isaiah: Priestly Rites and Prophetic Rage: Post-Exilic Prophetic Critique of the Priesthood (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006); For the Comfort of Zion: The Geographical and Theological Location of Isaiah 40–55 (Leiden: Brill, 2011) and two on the book of Zechariah: Zechariah and His Visions: An Exegetical Study of Zechariah’s Vision Report (Bloomsbury: T&T Clark, 2014); Zechariah’s Vision Report and its Earliest Interpreters: A Redaction-Critical Study of Zechariah 1–8 (Bloomsbury: T&T Clark, 2016). She has also written many research papers, edited several collections of articles that investigate diverse historical and literary aspects of biblical prophecy, and published a textbook on biblical Hebrew.
David R. Vishanoff is Associate Professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD in West and South Asian Religions from Emory University in 2004. His first two books, The Formation of Islamic Hermeneutics and A Critical Introduction to Islamic Legal Theory dealt with medieval theories of Qurʾānic interpretation; he has been extending that project into the modern period, beginning in Indonesia where he spent the spring of 2013 as a Fulbright scholar. His other long-term projects are an epistemology and pedagogy of “sacrificial listening,” and a series of studies on Muslim uses of the Bible, for which he is reconstructing and translating an eighth-century Muslim rewriting of the “Psalms of David.” These projects have led him to dabble as well in digital methods of data visualization and distant reading.
Mateusz Wilk is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Culture, University of Warsaw. He received his PhD in 2008 at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris for a dissertation written under the supervision of Gabriel Martinez-Gros. His research concentrates on the history and culture of Muslim Spain (al-Andalus). The areas of his interest include the ideology of power, the cultural memory of al-Andalus, and Muslim eschatology. His edition and English translation of the Kitāb al-waraʿ of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ḥabīb (d. 238/853) will soon be published with the University of Cordoba Press. Currently, he is working on a book on Lisān al-Dīn b. al-Ḫaṭīb and the Andalusi nostalgia.
Witold Witakowski studied Semitics at the University of Warsaw and at Uppsala University, where he also completed his PhD thesis in Syriac historiography (1987). Since then, he has been attached to the Oriental Department, Uppsala University, where he has pursued research on various topics in Syriac and Ethiopic historiographic, apocalyptic and apocryphal literatures. He has published extensively on these subjects. Among his recent publications is the paper on “Cain, Abel and their sisters in Ethiopian tradition,” published in Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017)
Marzena Zawanowska holds a Ph.D. in Oriental Studies (2008), awarded by the University of Warsaw in cooperation with Tel Aviv University where she conducted her post-doctoral research. She is an Assistant Professor in the Mordechai Anielewicz Center for the Study and Teaching of the History and Culture of Jews in Poland (Faculty of History, University of Warsaw) and a Curator of Manuscripts in the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. Her research interests include medieval Karaite Bible exegesis (especially Karaite, written in Judeo-Arabic), but also the borderlines between Judaism and Islam, as well as the history of Jewish thought and literature. She has published extensively on these subjects. Her authored book on Yefet ben ‘Eli’s Arabic commentary on the Abraham cycle appeared in the series “Karaite Texts and Studies”: The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10–25:18) (Leiden: Brill, 2012)
Yair Zoran is an independent researcher in the field of medieval Arabic Bible exegesis. He holds a MPhil in Arabic Language and Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His thesis focused on Yefet ben ʿEli’s translation and commentary on the book of Obadiah. His critical edition of the text appeared as an article in Ginzei Qedem (2012): 129–195. He has published on medieval Karaite Bible commentaries (specifically on Yefet ben ʿEli). Among his publications are: “The Majestic Plural [Pluralis majestatis] – the Plural of Respect” [in Hebrew]. Beit Mikra Quarterly, 143 (1995): 402–403; “ ‘Sending of Food-Portions’ and ‘Food Preparation’: Language and Halachah in the commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli, the Karaite, on Nehemiah 8:10.” Peamim, 153 (2017): 141–150; “The Great Name and its Merits in Islam and their Parallels in Jewish Literature” [in Hebrew], in Bein Ever le-Arav, 9 and 10–11 (Tel Aviv: Afikim, 2017 and 2019), 70–95.
Arye Zoref is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Biblical Studies, Tel Aviv University. He specializes in Judeo Arabic literature and interreligious discussions. His PhD dissertation was devoted to Tanchum ha-Yerushalmi’s Commentary on Canticles: Studies in its Tendencies and its Jewish, Sufi-Islamic and Christian Sources, with a Critical Edition (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013). Among his publications are: “The Influence of Syriac Bible Commentaries on Judeo Arabic Commentaries: Demonstrated by Several Stories from the Book of Genesis.” Studies in Christian – Jewish Relations, 11 (2016): 1–18; “The Journeys for God in Sufi and Judeo Arabic Literature.” PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien, 22 (2016): 109–119.
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