Position:

James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinical Hebrew; Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Lecturer in Hebrew, Exeter College

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / Exeter College

Email:

joanna.weinberg@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Jewish historiography
• Jews in the Renaissance
• Midrash
• History of scholarship

Current Projects:

• Isaac Casaubon's encounter with Hebrew
• Editing a book on Midrash
• Lexicon of Nathan ben Yehiel

Courses Taught:

• Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew texts
• Maimonides
• Midrash
• Medieval Jewish history / thought

Recent Publications:

• "Invention and Convention: Jewish and Christian critique of the Jewish fixed calendar,” Jewish History, 14, 3, 2000, pp.317-330.
• The Light of the Eyes of Azariah de’ Rossi. An English translation with introduction and notes. Yale Judaica series volume XXXI, Yale University Press, May 2001.
• “Leon Modena and the Fiore di Virtù,” in Italia (Conference supplement Series 1),2003 pp.137-157.
• Azariah de'Rossi's Observations on the Syriac New Testament. London, The Warburg Institute 2005. (Italian text and English translation with critical apparatus and notes).
• "The Beautiful Soul: Azariah de' Rossi's Search for Truth" in Cultural Intermediaries. Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy, eds D. Ruderman and G. Veltri, Philadelphia, 2004, pp109-26
• "A Sixteenth Century Hebraic Approach to the New Testament" in History of scholarship: a selection of papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute, edited by Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin. Oxford, 2006, pp 231-50