Guest
Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Dr. Elizabeth Shanks Alexander is Full Professor at the University of Virginia in the Department of Religious Studies. She received her MA, MPhil, and PhD in Judaic Studies from Yale University, after a BA in Religion from Haverford College. She has written extensively about rabbinic literature and culture, especially oral tradition and the production of the Mishnah. In the last decade she has turned her attention to women, ritual, and gender within rabbinic literature. Her book Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She has also written Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition.