Vered Noam is a senior lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Culture at Tel Aviv University, and head of its Sub-Department of Talmud and Ancient Jewish Literature. She holds a PhD from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Vered’s research interests include early halakha, Second Temple literature and Talmudic notions of history, law and morality. Amongst her numerous writings are Megillat Ta’anit – Versions, Interpretations, History (Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2003) and “When a Man Dies” – Conceptions of Impurity in Second Temple Era (slated to be published).