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Dvora E. Weisberg, Ph.D.
Director, School of Rabbinic Studies;
Associate Professor of Rabbinical Literature
Dr. Dvora Weisberg is Director of the School of Rabbinical Studies and Associate Professor of Rabbinics. She received her B.A. at Brandeis University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Before coming to HUC, Dr. Weisberg taught at the College of William and Mary and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Weisberg is especially interested in gender issues in rabbinic texts. Her recent book focuses on levirate marriage and constructs of the family in rabbinic Judaism.
Areas of Expertise
- Gender issues in rabbinic texts
- Rabbis' Daughters in the Talmud
- Women and ritual observance
- Levirate Marriage in ancient Judaism
Education
- Ph.D., Talmud and Rabbinics, Jewish Theological Seminary (1994)
Lecture Topics
- Rabbinic Judaism and Rabbinic Literature
- The Origins and Aims of Rabbinic Judaism
- Rabbinic Visions of "The Good Life"
- Rabbinic Reflections on Good and Evil
- Covenant, Community and Conversion in Rabbinic Judaism
- Creating Holiness: An Introduction to the Mishnah
- Levirate Marriage in Judaism
- The Value and Limits of Dispute in Rabbinic Tradition
- Rabbinic Literature as a Resource for Reform Jews
- Abraham as a Religious Seeker
- Rabbinic "Heroes"
- Hillel
- Yohanan ben Zakkai
- Beruriah
- Rabbi Akiba
- Images of Women in the Talmud
- Women's Prayers in the Midrash
- Desirable But Dangerous: Rabbis' Daughters in the Talmud
- Biblical Characters as Rabbinic Jews
- Why Study Talmud?
- The Study of Torah as a Jewish (Pre-)Occupation
- The Family in Jewish Tradition
- Marriage and Married Life
- Divorce
- Parents and Children
- In-Laws in Jewish Tradition
- The Individual, the Family and the Community
- Jewish Law and Ethics
- The Evolution of Jewish Law
- Abortion
- Capital Punishment
- Children and Parents
- Intermarriage: Family and Community Responses
- Procreation
- Social Justice and Rabbinic Judaism
- Tzedek and Tzedakah in Rabbinic Tradition
- The Origins of Tikkun Olam
- Gender and Judaism
- Women and the Study of Torah
- Mikveh and the Modern Woman
- The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition
- Images of Women in the Talmud
- Women's Prayers in the Midrash
- Desirable But Dangerous: Rabbis' Daughters in the Talmud
- Theology
- Imagining God, Imagining Ourselves: God-Language as a Reflection of Values
- Do We Speak a Common Language? Rethinking Jewish-Christian Dialogue
- Rabbinic Reflections on Good and Evil
- Liturgy
- The Development of Prayer in Judaism
- Reform Judaism and the Liturgy
- Hannah as a Model of "Proper" Praying
- Can I Say That? Audacious Prayer in Judaism
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