Jewish Community Federation Endowed Lecture: "Through the Pages of the Past: The Jewish Book in its Historical Context" with David M. Stern

JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION ENDOWED LECTURE

David M. Stern is Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of Classical Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as Director of the Jewish Studies Program for many years.

His field of specialization is classical Jewish literature and religion. He has written widely on midrash (the Biblical commentaries of the Rabbis), and is the author of several books including Parables in Midrash: Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature (Harvard University Press); Rabbinic Fantasies: Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature (Yale University Press), and Midrash and Theory: Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Literary Studies (Northwestern University Press).