Mishnah and Memory: An Educational Exploration
Dr. Devora Steinmetz
Devora Steinmetz serves on the faculty of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School and the Mandel Leadership Institute. She is the founder of Beit Rabban, a Jewish day school profiled in Daniel Pekarsky’s Vision at Work: The Theory and Practice of Beit Rabban. She is the author of scholarly articles on Talmud, Midrash, and Bible as well as of two books, From Father to Son: Kinship, Conflict, and Continuity in Genesis and Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law. She has served on the faculty of Drisha, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshivat Hadar, and Havruta: a Beit Midrash at Hebrew University.
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How should we think about Mishnah study if we take it seriously as an oral text?
This Rifka Rosenwein Memorial Lecture, taught by Dr. Devora Steinmetz is sponsored by Barry Lichtenberg and Judith Heicklen in memory of Rifka Rosenwein z”l .
This lecture, originally recorded 10/27/2013, was delivered as part of A Day of Learning in Commemoration of the Tenth Yahrzeit of Rifka Rosenwein, z”l.