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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : People

NAMESteven Weitzman

  • Professor, Department of Religious Studies
  • Irving M. Glazer Chair, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program
  • Director, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Education

  • Ph.D. at Harvard University, 1993

Research Interests

  • Biblical and Early Jewish Literature and Religion
  • Role of violence in early Jewish culture
  • Old Testament History and Studies

Contact Information

sweitzman@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 308
(812) 855-1174

Courses Recently Taught

  • The Bible & Its Interpreters
  • Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible
  • Judaism in the Making
  • King David in Myth and History
  • The History of God

Publication Highlights

  • Song and Story in Biblical Narrative (Bloomington: Indiana University, 1997).
  • Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity (forthcoming, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005).
  • With David Brakke and Michael Satlow, Self-Revelations: Religion and Selfhood in Antiquity (Bloomington: Indiana University, forthcoming)
  • "The Samson Story as Border Fiction," Biblical Interpretation 10 (2002): 158-74.
  • "From Feasts into Mourning: The Violence of Early Jewish Festivals," Journal of Religion 79 (1999): 545-65.
  • "Forced Circumcision and the Shifting Role of Gentiles in Hasmonean Ideology," Harvard Theological Review 92 (1999): 37-59.