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CURRICULUM VITAE
PROFESSOR TZVEE ZAHAVY
Education
- Brown University , Department of Religious Studies, Ph.D., June, 1976
- Yeshiva University , M.S., Jewish History, 1973
- Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Ordination, 1973
- Yeshiva College , B.A., 1970, Mathematics
Academic Employment
• 1976-95. Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota
• 1997-Present. Department of Philosophy and Religion, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Teaching
• Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Minnesota , 1985
Courses Taught:
Fellowships and Academic Awards
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
- American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-aid
- Conference Grant for The Holocaust and the Humanities
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
- Principal Investigator, IBM Advanced Education Project Grant, Section on Teaching Hebrew
- Minnesota Humanities Commission Grant for Sephardic Heritage Course, coordinator
- Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts , University of Minnesota 1985
- Wexner Foundation Institutional Grant, principal investigator
- Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship
- Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Yeshiva University
- Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Dissertation Grant
- National Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Dissertation Grant
- Tisch Foundation Fellowship and University Fellowship, Brown University
- Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society
Publications
i. Books
• The Traditions of Eleazar Ben Azariah , Scholars Press, Brown University Judaic Studies, no. 2, Missoula, 1977, xvi + 365 pp.
• The Mishnaic Law of Blessings and Prayers: Tractate Berakhot , Brown University Judaic Studies 88, Atlanta , 1987, xi + 160 pp.
• The Talmud of the Land of Israel: Tractate Berakhot , University of Chicago Press , Chicago , 1989, xvii + 373 pp.
• Studies in Jewish Prayer , Studies in Judaism , University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1990, 191 pp. [A Jewish Book Club Alternate Selection, 1992.]
• The Talmud of Babylonia : An American Translation. XXX.A: Tractate Hullin. Chapters 1-2 , Brown Judaic Studies. Scholars Press, Atlanta , 1992, xiv + 238 pp.
• The Talmud of Babylonia : An American Translation. XXX.B: Tractate Hullin. Chapters 3-6 , Brown Judaic Studies. Scholars Press, Atlanta , 1993, xiv + 295 pp.
• The Talmud of Babylonia : An American Translation. XXX.C: Tractate Hullin. Chapters 7-12 , Brown Judaic Studies. Scholars Press, Atlanta , 1994, xiv + 352 pp.
ii. Articles
- "The Sabbath Code of Damascus Covenant X, 14 - XI, 18: Form Analytical and Redaction Critical Observations." Revue de Qumran , Paris , December, 1981
- "Form Analysis of Mishnaic Sentences." In Computing in the Humanities , ed. P. Patton , D.C. Heath, Lexington Books, 1981, pp. 113-134 (with R. Brooks)
- "A New Approach to Early Jewish Prayer." In History of Judaism: the Next Ten Years , ed. B. Bokser, Brown Judaic Studies 21, Scholars Press, Chico, CA., 1980, pp. 45-60.
- "Sources for the Seasonal Ritual in the Third through Fifth Centuries," in Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies , Jerusalem , 1986. [Based on a paper delivered at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem , August, 1985]
- " Beruryah ," "Joshua ben Hananiah," " Judah bar Ilai," "Meir," "Simeon bar Yohai," "Simeon ben Gamaliel," "Tarfon," "Yose ben Halafta." Articles for The Encyclopedia of Religion , ed. M. Eliade, The Free Press, Macmillan: New York , December, 1986.
- " Kavvanah (Concentration) for Prayer in the Mishnah and the Talmud ," in New Perspectives on Ancient Judaism , Lanham, 1987. [Based on a paper delivered December 2, 1985, at the Bar Ilan University Talmud Department, Departmental Seminar, Ramat Gan , Israel ]
- "Altered States of Consciousness: Prayer in the Mishnah," The Reconstructionist, Vol. LIII, No. 6, April/May 1988.
- "Three Stages in the Development of Early Rabbinic Prayer," in The Festschrift for Marvin Fox, Brown Judaic Studies, 1989, vol. I, pp. 233-265.
- "Judaism, the Mishnaic Period," in The Anchor Bible Dictionary , New York , 1992, vol. III, pp. 1083-1089.
- "The Politics of Piety: Social Conflict and the Emergence of Rabbinic Liturgy," in The Making of Jewish and Christian Worship , ed. L. Hoffman and P. Bradshaw, Notre Dame University Press, 1991. [Based on a paper presented at a Symposium at the University of Notre Dame, June, 1988.]
- "Political and Social Dimensions in the Formation of Early Jewish Prayer: the Case of the Shema`," in the Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies , Jerusalem, Division C, Vol. 1, pp. 33-40, Jerusalem, 1990. [Based on a paper delivered at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem , August, 1989]
- " Biblical Theory and Criticism: Midrash and Medieval Commentary ," in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 1994, pp. 81-84, and in the 2 nd edition (December 10, 2004)
- Articles: Macmillan Dictionary of Biblical Judaism (65 entries): Abadim (tractate); Academy on High; Aha b. Rav; Aha of Shabha; Animals, Treatment of in Rabbinic Judaism; Balsam; Batlan; Beard and Shaving; Beggars and Begging; Birkat David; Birkat Geulah; Birkat Ha'aretz; Birkat Hahodesh; Birkat Haminim; Birkat Hamishpat; Birkat Hanehenim; Birkat Hashanim; Birkat Hashir; Birkat Hatov Vehametiv; Birkat Hatzadikim; Birkat Hazan; Birkat Hatanim; Birkat Yerushalaim; Evil eye, in Rabbinic Judaism; Fables, Rabbinic; Flogging; Gambling; Heqdesh; Jeremiah b. Abba; Lease, Rabbinic law of; Listes; Martyrs, ten; Me`ilah; Medicine, Talmudic; Mekilta of R. Simeon b. Yohai; Men of the Great Assembly; Mezuzah (tractate); Money lending; Monogamy and polygamy; Nations, the seventy; New Moon; Noahides; Oil, use in Rabbinic Period; Partnership; Property, Rabbinic law for lost; Qal vehomer; Sale, Talmudic law of; Sefer Torah (tractate); She'iltot; Shofarot; Sick, visiting; Simeon Hatimni; Simeon b. Shetah; Simeon b. Yohai; Takkanah; Tefillin (tractate); Triennial Cycle; Tzitzit (tractate); Wills; Wine; Zaddiq; 'Abot (tractate); 'Asmakta'; 'Ona'ah; 'Ones. NY, 1996
- "The Predicament of the Postmodern American Jew," in Charles Selengut, ed., Jewish Identity in the Postmodern Age, St. Paul, 1999
- "Piety" in The Encyclopedia of Judaism , Leiden and New York , 1999
- “Jewish Piety,” in the Blackwell Reader in Judaism (Blackwell Readers) ed. Alan J. Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner, Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated (December 1, 2000) and (Paperback - Feb 1, 2003)
- “How Society Shaped the Liturgy of the Scribes, Priests and Rabbis,” in When Judaism and Christianity Began: Essays in Memory of Anthony J. Saldarini (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism) by Alan J. Avery-Peck (Editor), Daniel J. Harrington (Editor), Jacob Neusner (Editor), Brill Academic Publishers, (April 2004)
iii. Chapters
- "Tosefta Tractate Berakhot." Chapter one in The Tosefta Translated from the Hebrew . First Division. Zera`im, ed. J. Neusner and R. Sarason, KTAV, New York , 1986.
- "Mishnah Tractate Berakhot." Chapter one in The Mishnah. A New American Translation, ed. J. Neusner, Yale University Press, New Haven , 1988 (with Alan Avery-Peck).
- The Talmud of the Land of Israel : An Academic Commentary to the Second, Third and Fourth Divisions: Based on the Translation by Tzvee Zahavy , Jacob Neusner, South Florida Academic Commentary Ser., Scholars Press, Atlanta , GA , U.S.A. (1998)
- Part One: Mishnah-Tosefta Berakhot in The Law of Agriculture in the Mishnah and the Tosefta: Translation, Commentary, Theology. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, the Ancient near East. ed. Jacob Neusner. Brill Academic Pub (November 1, 2005), pp. 399-574
- Mishnah-Tosefta Hallah, Chapters two, three and four in The Law of Agriculture in the Mishnah and the Tosefta: Translation, Commentary, Theology. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, the Ancient near East. ed. Jacob Neusner. Brill Academic Pub (November 1, 2005), pp. 2601-2626
iv. Scholarly Papers, Lectures and Colloquia
- "The Idea of Halakhah in Judaism," at the International Conference of Mishpat Ivri and Talmudic Law, New York , February, 1995.
- "The Making of Halakhah in Judaism: From Chaotics to Linearity," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago , November, 1994.
- "Identification of Birds in the Talmud Tractate Hullin," at the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem , 1993
- "A Post-modern Reading of Three Contemporary Historians of Hellenistic and Early Rabbinic Judaism," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco , November, 1992.
- "The Rhetoric of Rabbinic Ritual," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Kansas City , November, 1991.
- Shanghai Judaic Studies Association, Chinese Institute for Peace and Development Studies, Institute for World History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. "Research on Judaism in late antiquity." July, 1991.
- Institute of World Religions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing . "The development of Jewish prayer in the time of the Mishnah and Talmud." July, 1991.
- "A Rabbi Reviews Romans: A Response to Neil Elliot's, The Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint and Strategy and Paul's Dialogue with Judaism." The Goodman Lecture in Jewish and Christian Thought, The College of St. Catherine , March, 1991
- "Talmud and Taboo: Kosher Laws and Sexual Restrictions in the Talmud," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans , November, 1990.
- "Anne Frank Fights Back: A Dutch Response to the Radicalism of the Right." Panel presentation: Culture and the Radical Right. Symposium at the University of Minnesota , November, 1991.
- "Teaching Mishnah, Midrash and Talmud at the University," at the Meeting of the Mid-West Jewish Studies Association, Chicago , October, 1990. Published in Shofar, vol. 9, no. 3, Spring,1991, pp. 119-129.
- "The American Influence on God Language:" Seminar Presentation, Temple Israel , April, 1990, co-sponsored by Minnesota Humanities Commission
- "Historical Dimensions of the Formation of the Prayer of Eighteen Blessings," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Anaheim , November, 1989.
- "From History to Form Criticism and Back: The Study of Jewish Prayer," at the Inaugural Meeting of the Mid-West Jewish Studies Association, Chicago , September, 1989.
- "It is not in Heaven: Judaic Systems, Laws and Discordant Discourses," submitted for publication in Religion and Law, ed. Bruce Lincoln. [Based on a paper presented, Conference on Religious Law: the Construction of Law as Sacred Discourse, University of Minnesota , May, 1989.]
- "Judaism and Memories: Systemic Representations of the Holocaust," keynote address, Conference on the Effects of the Holocaust on the Humanities, University of Minnesota , March, 1989.
- "On An Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Orthodox Judaism." Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, December 15, 1987. Published as an Occasional Paper of the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota , 1988.
- "The Methodology of the American School of Talmudic Research." Tel Aviv University , June, 1987. Published as an Occasional Paper of the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota , 1987.
- "Rabbinic Prayer in the Time of Early Christianity." Paper read at the Annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago , December, 1984
- "Jewish Law and Jewish Life." Lyman Coleman Lecture, Easton College , Lafayette , PA. March, 1982.
- "Did Jesus Pray as a Jew?" Jay Phillips Lecture, St. John's University , Collegeville. December, 1981
- "Hellenistic Judaism." Temple of Aaron Lecture Series, St. Paul , MN .
- "Rabbinic Theories of Ritual as a Mirror of Social Change." Invited paper delivered at the XIV International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. August, 1980.
- "The Rabbinic Repackaging of Scripture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Paradigms of Biblical Exegesis." Invited paper, Program in Jewish Studies, University of California at San Diego and guest colloquium University of California at Berkeley . November, 1980.
- "Dissonance and Resolution in the Talmud." Colloquium of the College of Liberal Arts , University of Minnesota . May, 1980.
- "Scholarship on Judaism after 70 C.E." Invited paper, Spring Conference on Religion, AAR/SBL. Luther-Northwestern Theological Seminaries. April, 1978.
- " Babylonia : The Flowering of Rabbinic Judaism." October, 1978. "Rabbinic Judaism and Philosophy." November, 1975. Trinity College , Hartford , Connecticut .
v. Reviews of Scholarship
- Philo Judaeus: His Universe of Discourse. Beitraege zur erforschung des alten testaments und des antiken Judentums. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 1995 by Naomi G. Cohen, for H-Judaic, June, 1997
- Parables in Midrash. Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature , by David Stern, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 61, no. 3, Fall, 1993, pp. 615-618.
- Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash , by Daniel Boyarin, in Critical Review of Books in Religion, vol. 5, 1992, pp. 356-359.
- Early Rabbinic Writings , by Hyam Maccoby, in Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1991, pp. 368-70.
- The Three Crowns: Structures of Communal Politics in Early Rabbinic Jewry , by Stuart A. Cohen, in Shofar, vol. 10, no. 3, Spring, 1992, pp. 157-159, and in Critical Review of Books in Religion, vol. 5, 1992, pp.361-363.
- From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy , in Shofar, vol. 10, no. 3, Spring, 1992, pp. 159-162.
- Jewish Petitionary Prayer: A Theological Exploration, by Daniel Cohn-Sherbok, in Religious Studies Review, vol. 17, number 2, April, 1991, p. 174
- Jacob Neusner, A History of the Mishnaic Law of Damages . Part 1, Baba Qamma: Translation and Explanation; Part 2, Baba Mesia: Translation and Explanation; Part 3, Baba Batra, Sanhedrin, Makkot: Translation and Explanation; Part 4, Shebuot, Eduyot, Abodah Zarah, Abot, Horayot: Translation and Explanation; Part 5, The Mishnaic System of Damages (SJLA 35; Leiden: Brill, 1983-5), for the Catholic Biblical Quarterly.
- Methodology in the Academic Study of Judaism , Zev Garber, ed., Studies in Judaism. University Press of America : Lanham , Md. , 1987, for Religious Studies Review.
- Lawrence A. Hoffman, Beyond the Text: A Holistic Approach to Liturgy , Jewish Literature and Culture Series. Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1987, for Religious Studies Review.
- Frederic Manns, La Priere d'Israel a l'Heure de Jesus , Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Analecta, n. 22. Jerusalem : Franciscan Printing Press, 1987, for Religious Studies Review.
- J. Neusner, In Search of Talmudic Biography: The Problem of the Attributed Saying , Brown Judaic Studies, 70. Chico : Scholars, 1984, and J. Neusner, The Peripatetic Saying: The Problem of the Thrice-Told Tale in Talmudic Literature , Brown Judaic Studies, 89. Chico : Scholars, 1985. The Journal of Biblical Literature, 1987
- S. S. Miller, Studies in the History and Traditions of Sepphoris , SJLA 37; Brill: Leiden , 1984. In The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1987
- H. W. Basser, Midrashic Interpretation of the Song of Moses. In the Journal of Biblical Literature , 106, no.1, March, 1987, pp. 115-117.
- J. Neusner, A History of the Mishnaic Law of Appointed Times. Part I, Shabbat: Translation and Explanation. Leiden , 1981. In The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 46, 1984, pp. 174-175.
- A. Peck, The Priestly Gift in Mishnah: A Study of Tractate Terumot . In The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 45, 1983, pp. 696-697.
- S. Ravidowicz, Studies in Jewish Thought. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. xiv, no. 2, June, 1977.
- L. Davidowicz, The Jewish Presence. In New Review of Books and Religion, Vol. ii, no. 9, May, 1978.
- D.R.G. Beattie, Jewish Exegesis of the Book of Ruth in Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. xcviii, no. 1, March, 1979.
vi. Multimedia Curricular Materials
- Video Tape: "Ancient Synagogues Explored." Half hour video tape. Photography and script by Tzvee Zahavy. Edited with assistance from Media Resources, at the Rarig Center , University of Minnesota . 1984.
- Study Guide: "Modern Judaism." Study guide for Continuing Education and Extension, University of Minnesota .
- Study Guide: "Introduction to Judaism: Civilization and the Jews." Study guide for Television Independent Study, University of Minnesota . In conjunction with the PBS series, "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews." Fall, 1984; revised Winter, 1986 and Spring, 1986
- Study Guide: " Readings in Judaism and Jewish History." Historical survey and collected essays used in conjunction with the course, "Jewish Studies 3034: Introduction to Judaism." Revised and expanded, 1988.
- Video Tape: "Interviews with Twin Cities Jewish Leaders." Two hour video taped interview sessions conducted by Tzvee Zahavy. Produced and edited with assistance from Media Resources, at the Rarig Center , University of Minnesota , summer, 1985.
- Textbook: Extension Independent Study: Study Guide, Introduction to Judaism, 122 pp., 1990
- Study Guides: "Introduction to Classical Hebrew. I, II, and III" Extension Independent Study, University of Minnesota , 1992
- Designer: display of the Joss Collection of Jewish Art and Artifacts, 1991-1993
vii. Computer Assisted Instruction: Software and Related Publications
- "A Judaica Scholar's Introduction to Computer Communications," Jewish Studies Network, Spring, 1991, volume 5, number 1, pp. 8-10.
- "CD-ROM Computer Resources: Rabbinic Literature and Bibles," Religious Studies News, November, 1990, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 40-45. Also in CD-ROM Enduser and AJS Newsletter.
- "Demonstration and Theory of Computer-aided-instruction: Milim, Verbs, Sentences," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans , November, 1990.
- Chair, Editorial Committee of the international Jewish Studies listserver journal, H-Judaic, an H-net list based at the University of Illinois (UICVM) (1400+ subscribers).
- "Microcomputing and Jewish Studies," Review Article, Association for Jewish Studies Review, Spring, 1989.
- "Computer-aided-instruction for Hebrew (and Other Less Commonly Taught Languages)," IBM Academic Computing Conference, Anaheim , CA , June, 1989.
- "What can we learn from the Humanities about computers?" Collegiate Microcomputer, Vol. V, No. 3, August, 1987.
- "Computers, Myth and Culture," in The Paradigm Exchange, Minneapolis , 1987. [Based on a paper read at the Sixth Colloquium of Humanities and Arts, Univ. of Minn. , Feb., 1985]
- "Homebrew Hebrew: Using the Microcomputer from Right to Left," Collegiate Microcomputer, Vol. V, no. 1, February, 1987. [Based on a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago , December, 1984]
Administration
- Chairman of Department 1986-87 and 1979-82
- Director, Center for Jewish Studies 1981-93
- Associate Director, Center for Ancient Studies
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Religious Studies
- Executive Committee, Center for Ancient Studies
- Senate Committee on Computing and Information Sciences
- University Advisory Committee on Academic Computing
- Distinguished Teacher Award Selection Committee
- Religious Studies Department Executive Committee
- Classics Department Curriculum Committee
- Search Committee for Greek Position
- Faculty Travel Fund Committee
- College Assembly
- Council for Curriculum, Instruction and Advising
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