Creating Judaism: Author

Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice
Michael L. Satlow

Professor Michael L. Satlow holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of
Religious Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University, with a specialization in
Early Judaism. He received his Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1993,
and holds a B.A. from Yale University (1986). In addition to Creating Judaism, he has authored
Jewish Marriage in Antiquity (Princeton, 2001) and Tasting the Dish: Rabbinic Rhetorics of
Sexuality (Scholars Press, 1995), and has co-edited Religion and the Self in Antiquity (Indiana
University Press, 2005). He has written extensively on issues of gender, sexuality, and marriage
among Jews in antiquity; the Dead Sea scrolls; modern Jewish theology; methodology in Religious
Studies; and the social history of Jews during the rabbinic period. He is now engaged in a project
examining Jewish piety in antiquity and developing a database of inscriptions from Israel/Palestine,
that can be seen here.

Professor Satlow is an editor of Brown Judaic Studies; was chair of the History and Literature of
Rabbinic Judaism section of the Society of Biblical Literature; and previously taught at Indiana
University, the University of Virginia and the University of Cincinnati before arriving at Brown in
2002. He has held a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and was recently
named a fellow by the Guggenheim Foundation. His courses include: "Judaism," "The Beginning of
Judaism," "The Dead Sea Scrolls," "Talmud," Judaism and Christianity in Conflict," "Jewish and
Islamic Law," and "Jewish Mysticism."

He has lectured extensively at churches and synagogues and teaches in the Me'ah program
sponsored by Hebrew College.

A fuller description of Professor Satlow's research and teaching, along with a full CV, can be found
here.

Professor Satlow is available to lecture and to serve as a scholar-in-residence. You can contact
him through email at msatlow@creatingjudaism.com.

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