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This mini-course consists of three 1-hour presentations by telephone and an email discussion between each of the phone calls. If you cannot make the live session, recordings will be made available an hour after the call for you to listen to at your leisure. Through the discussion, you will have a chance to interact with your colleagues and our special presenters. There are also a set of relevant sources for you to download. Once you register, study materials will be available for downloading from this website - including articles, handouts, and/or texts. The sessions are as follows:
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Dr. Alyssa Gray, J.D., is Assistant Professor
of Codes and Responsa Literature at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion in New York. She has also taught at the Jewish Theological
Seminary, from which she received her Ph.D. in Talmud and Rabbinics in
2001. Prior to beginning her doctorate, she studied at the Hebrew University
Faculty of Law (LL.M. 1994), and worked as a litigation associate at Davis
Polk and Wardwell in New York. She received her J.D. at Columbia University,
and holds B.A. degrees from Barnard College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta
Kappa) and the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the co-author (with
Bernard Jackson, Berachyahu Lifshitz, and Daniel B. Sinclair) of "Halacha
and Law," included in the award-winning The Oxford Handbook of Jewish
Studies (2002), and is a contributor to the series My People's Prayer
Book. Other articles and reviews have appeared in The Journal of Jewish
Studies, Prooftexts, Hebrew Studies, and Conservative Judaism. She is
the author of a forthcoming book entitled A Talmud In Exile: The Influence
of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah (forthcoming,
Brown Judaic Studies, 2005). Her current research concerns wealth and
poverty in classical and medieval rabbinic literature.
Dr.
Marc B. Shapiro received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and a B.A.
from Brandeis University. He holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies
at the University of Scranton. His major area of interest is Jewish religious
history. His recent book 
Dr.
Kenneth Seeskin is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching
Excellence at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. at Yale University.
He specializes in Jewish Philosophy, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy,
Philosophy of Religion. His work uses classic texts in the history of
philosophy to shed light on problems of perennial interest. His latest
book is