THE INSTRUCTOR: Professor Avigdor Shinan
Department of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem


Professor Shinan has lectured in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University since 1979 and became a Full Professor in 1999. He has also served as Visiting Professor at Yale University, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Yeshiva University.

Professor Shinan is the Editor of Kiryat Sefer, a bibliographical quarterly of the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem.

Professor Shinan is the author of many books (see below) and over 100 articles in different languages. His main areas of research are: Biblical Interpretation, Mishnah, Targum, Jewish Prayerbook.


Publications

The Biblical Story as Reflected in its Aramaic Translations (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Hakkibutz Hameuchad, 1993;
The Embroidered Targum: the Aggadah in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to the Pentateuch (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1992;
The World of the Aggadah (Broadcast University Series). Tel-Aviv: Publication of the Ministry of Defense, 1990 (Original Hebrew edition, 1987; Russian translation, 1990);
Midrash Shemot Rabbah, Chapters I-XIV. A Critical Edition Based on a Jerusalem Manuscript, with Variants, Commentary, and Introduction (Hebrew). Jerusalem/Tel Aviv: Dvir Publishing House, 1984;
The Book of Genesis in the Bible, the Old Versions and the Ancient Jewish Literature (Monograph Series, co-authored with Y. Zakovitch, Hebrew). Five Volumes, 1983-1992;
The Aggadah in the Aramaic Targums to the Pentateuch (Hebrew). Jeruasalem: Makor Publications, 1979. (Ph.D. dissertation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1978);
With J. Heinemann, The Statutory Prayers of the Sabbath and the Weekdays (Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1977.