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Orit

Avnery

Director of the Tanach Initiative, Research Fellow

Dr. Orit Avneri is the director of the Tanach Initiative and a Research Fellow at the Kogod Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Dr. Avneri teaches Bible studies at Shalem College in Jerusalem. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees (under the supervision of Prof. Yair Zakovitz) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She wrote her doctorate dissertation in the Bible Department at Bar Ilan University under the supervision of Prof. Ed Grinstein. In her research she uses intertextual literary analysis and feminist theories to interpret the Bible.

Formerly, an educator at the Pelech High School for girls, and a teacher of Bible for many years at Midrashiat Lindenbaum and Matan .

Her book Standing on the Threshold: Belonging and Foreignness in the Scrolls of Ruth and Esther was published in 2015 by the Shalom Hartman Institute and Keter Books.

Orit Avnery

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Feb 11, 2021

The Megillah Project: leading Jewish thinkers reflect on the Book of Esther

Dec 9, 2020

Two-part rabbinic elective offering a close reading of the Book of Judges

May 15, 2020

Orit Avnery discusses the human aspects of the Book of Ruth

Mar 28, 2019

Every participant at the Seder must think of something that happened during the year that, because the individual was part of it, he only saw the back of the one in front of him.

Jan 22, 2011

How did the name Yehuda become the name most identified with the Jewish People and evolve into its derivative, "Jew?"

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