Prof. Dr. Idan Dershowitz
Chair of Hebrew Bible and Its Exegesis
Chair of Hebrew Bible and Its Exegesis
Campus Am Neuen Palais / Haus 2, Raum 2.06
E-Mail: dershowitzuuni-potsdampde
Tel.: (+49) 331/977-4361
Office hours:
Wednesday, 2 pm - on appointment
Responsibilities:
Executive Director
CV & Main Focus of Research
Born 1982. Undergraduate and graduate training at the Hebrew University,
following several years of yeshiva study. Elected in 2017 to the Harvard
Society of Fellows. Currently Chair of Hebrew Bible and Its Exegesis at the
University of Potsdam.
Dershowitz’s work has appeared in JBL, VT, ZAW, and the New York Times, and
he is the author of two books:
The Dismembered Bible: Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
Dershowitz is currently studying the composition history of Deuteronomy and the Priestly corpus.
Professional affiliations:
Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
International Association of Egyptologists (IAE)
Selected Publications
Books
The Dismembered Bible: Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
The Valediction of Moses: A Proto-Biblical Book (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
Articles, etc.
“The Valediction of Moses: New Evidence on the Shapira Deuteronomy Fragments”, ZAW 133:1 (2021)
“MORDECAI, SON OF JAIR (HEBREW BIBLE/OLD TESTAMENT),” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR) 18, De Gruyter (2020; forthcoming)
“The Secret History of Leviticus,” The New York Times (2018)
“Revealing Nakedness and Concealing Homosexual Intercourse: Legal and Lexical Evolution in Leviticus 18,” Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (HeBAI) 6:4 (2017)
“Darius II Delays the Festival of Matzot in 418 BCE,” TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2017)
“KENATH,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
“KENAZ, BROTHER OF CALEB,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
“KENAZ, SON OF ELAH,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
“KENAZ, SON OF ELIPHAZ,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) 15, De Gruyter (2016 [online], 2017 [print])
“Man of the Land: Unearthing the Original Noah,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW) 128:3 (2016): 357–373
“The Guilt of the Slanderer and the Sotah: Between Certainty and Uncertainty,” TheTorah.com: A Historical and Contextual Approach (2015)
"Computerized Source Criticism of Biblical Texts," Journal of Biblical Literature 134:2 (2015), with Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, and Nachum Dershowitz
“Flowing with Fat and (Bee) Honey,” Vetus Testamentum (VT) 64:4 (2014)
“Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components,” Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2011): 1356–1364, with Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, and Nachum Dershowitz.
“A Land Flowing with Fat and Honey,” Vetus Testamentum (VT) 60:2 (2010): 172–176