Vered Noam is a professor of

Talmud The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cente ...

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

. In 2020, she received the

Israel Prize The Israel Prize ( he, פרס ישראל; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor. History The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state cer ...

for Talmud, the first woman to receive the prize in Talmud studies.

Biography

Vered Noam was born in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

in 1960 to Professor Yehuda Elitzur and children's author Rivka Elitzur. In 1985 she earned her BA in Talmud and Archaeology; in 1989 she earned her MA in Talmud; and in 1997 she earned her PhD in Talmud –– all of these degrees having been completed at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. The topic of her doctorate was Megillat Ta'anit and its Scholion. She has been on the faculty of the department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv University since 1999. In 2008, she was appointed Associate Professor and in 2014 she was promoted to full Professor. Since 2017 she has served as chair of the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. Noam has also held a visiting appointment in the Jewish Studies program at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. Noam serves as an editor of the Jewish studies journal Zion (ציון) and is on the editorial boards of the ''

Journal of Ancient Judaism The ''Journal of Ancient Judaism'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2010. It covers "Jewish literature, culture, religion, and history from the Babylonian exile until the Babylonian Talmud." It is published three times a year by ...

'' and ''

Dead Sea Discoveries ''Dead Sea Discoveries'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is published by Brill Academic Publishers and the editor-in-chief is Molly M. Zahn of the University of Kansas. History The journal was ...

''. She has written on the

Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls (also the Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at the Qumran Caves in what was then Mandatory Palestine, near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the nor ...

and their influence on

Rabbinic Judaism Rabbinic Judaism ( he, יהדות רבנית, Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Judaism espoused by the Rabbanites, has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian ...

, and on how tales of Judea's Hasmonean rulers were recounted by

Josephus Flavius Josephus (; grc-gre, Ἰώσηπος, ; 37 – 100) was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for ''The Jewish War'', who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly d ...

and the later Babylonian rabbis of the Talmud.

Publications

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Megillat Ta’anit: Versions, Interpretation, History
' Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2003 (Hebrew). *
From Qumran to the Rabbinic Revolution: Conceptions of Impurity
' Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2010 (Hebrew). *
Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature
'. Oxford University Press, 2018.

References

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