322 About the Contributors
University. Her fi elds of interest include cultural studies and psychoana-
lytic criticism. She is the author of Glory and Agony: Isaac’s Sacrifi ce and
National Narrative, a 2010 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist, and is
coeditor of Teaching the Hebrew Bible as Literature (1989).Steven D. Fraade is the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism at
Yale University, where he teaches in the Department of Religious Stud-
ies and the Program in Judaic Studies, the latter of which he chairs. He is
the author, most recently, of Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative
in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages (2011).
Robert A. Harris is Associate Professor of Bible at the Jewish Th eological
Seminary and has served as a visiting faculty member at the Russian
State University for Humanities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
and the Gregorian University in Rome. Th e author of Discerning Paral-
lelism: A Study in Northern French Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis, he
has written extensively on the literary hermeneutics of medieval bibli-
cal exegesis.
Aaron W. Hughes is the Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies at the University
of Rochester. He is the author of, among other works, Th e Texture of the
Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Th ought (2004), Th e
Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy (2007), and Th e Invention of Jewish
Identity: Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation (2010).
Moshe Idel, the Max Cooper Professor Emeritus of Jewish Th ought at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Scholar at the Shalom Hart-
man Institute, received the Israel Prize in 1999 and the inaugural Emet
Prize in 2002. His major interests include the history of Jewish mysti-
cism, the Italian Renaissance, and Hasidism. He is author of, among
many works, Kabbalah: New Perspectives; Absorbing Perfections: Kab-
balah and Interpretation; Kabbalah in Italy; Kabbalah and Eros; and Sat-
urn’s Jews.
Job Y. Jindo is Director of Academic Programs at New York University’s
Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization and an adjunct professor at
the New York University School of Law. His publications include Bibli-
cal Metaphor Reconsidered: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Prophecy in
Jeremiah 1 – 24 ( 2010). His work-in-progress, titled “Toward a Poetics
of the Biblical Mind,” explores the inner world of biblical authors as re-
fl ected in their writings.