Visiting Lecturer
Associate Professor and Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies The University of British Columbia
Research interests and projects
- Material Culture of Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods (4th century BCE through 7th century CE)
- Archaeology of Israel in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods
- Horvat Midras Excavation Project
- Household Religion
- Material Religion
- The Rabbis and Archaeology
- Ancient Ethnic-Religious Diversity
- Economic History of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
- Economic Theory and Ancient History
- Second Temple era and Classical Rabbinic Literature
- Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Antiquity