Ariel Seri-Levi is a David Hartman Center Research Fellow. In addition, Ariel is a postdoctoral fellow within the Department of Bible and Department of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a lecturer in the Department of Bible at the David Yellin Academic College of Education and at the Kerem Institute for Jewish Humanistic Education.

His research focuses on the conceptions of God in the bible, as well as biblical semantics and the formation of the Pentateuch. His dissertation is entitled “Divine Anger and Its Appeasement in the Pentateuch and Its Sources.”

Ariel holds a bachelor’s degree and a masters’ degree in Jewish and Biblical studies and Jewish thought respectively, both with honors, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Also, he is a graduate of the “Revivim Honor Teacher-Training Program in Jewish Studies” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the “Human Rights and Judaism” fellowship of the Israel Democracy Institute.

He has written curricula and teacher’s guides for the Israeli public school system within the framework of the Hartman Institute’s Be’eri program, including an annotated edition of Maimonides’s Eight Chapters with Ofra Leibovitz-Goldberg (Hebrew; 2014). For three years, he wrote a column on the weekly Torah portion for Haaretz.

Ariel lives in Jerusalem with his wife Naama and their children.