Adiel Schremer

Fall Term 2012

Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law

Research Interests

• Jewish Legal Tradition
• History of the Jews in Late Antiquity
• Jewish Marriage in Antiquity
• Orthodoxy and Heresy in Judaism

Education

• Hebrew University, Jerusalem B.A. 1989, Talmud and Jewish History
• Hebrew University, Jerusalem Ph.D. 1996, Jewish History

Appointments

• Associate Professor, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History, Bar llan University
• Head, Halpern Center for the Study of Jewish Self-Perception, Bar llan University
• Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law, 2012

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Schremer will teach the course Jewish Law in the Making: Formalism and Realism in Jewish Legal Tradition in the Fall 2012 term.

Representative Publications

• Schremer, Adiel. "Judicial Discretion and the Critical Study of Jewish Law," 28 Dine Israel: Studies in Halakhah and Jewish Law 97 (2011).
  
• Schremer, Adiel. Brothers Estranged: Heresy, Christianity, and Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press 2010).
  
• Schremer, Adiel. Male and Female He Created Them: Jewish Marriage in Late Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud Periods (Zalman Shazar Center 2003).