Prof. Ishay Rosen-Zvi is a Senior Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He has a doctorate in Jewish philosophy from Tel Aviv University where he is a lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Culture; teaching Talmudic literature and culture. Among Professor Rosen-Zvi’s latest publications are:

The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual: Temple, Gender and Midrash (Brill, Leiden, 2012)

Demonic Desires: “Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)

Ishay is currently working on a monograph on the birth and development of the concept of the “gentile” entitled, “Goy: a Genealogy.”