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Shai Secunda

PhD

Sample Publications

The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in its Sasanian Context (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014); “The Talmudic Bei Abedan and the Sasanian Attempt to ‘Recover’ the Lost Avesta,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 18.4 (2011): 343-366; “On the Age of Zoroastrian Authorities of the Zand,” Iranica Antiqua 46 (2012): 317-349; “The Construction, Composition and Idealization of the Female Body in Rabbinic Literature and Parallel Iranian Texts: Three Excursuses,” NASHIM 23 (2012): 60-86; “The Fractious Eye: On the Evil Eye of Menstruants in Zoroastrian Tradition,” Numen 61.1 (2014).

Field of Research

Zoroastrianism, Pahlavi legal texts, Rabbinics, Talmud

Current Position

Martin Buber Society, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Hebrew University