Avraham (Rami) Reiner has a doctorate in Jewish thought from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a lecturer in the department of Jewish Thought at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

His main area of research is the history of the halakha and interpretation of the Talmud in the Middle Ages. He is currently researching 1,500 12th and 13th century tombstones found in Wurzburg, Germany, as well as co-editing a new edition of Sefer Hasidim.