Harry Fox

My areas of research include rabbinic biographies, honorifics, ritual fringes, and early Jewish family rabbinic law, Modern Hebrew Literature, peace studies and aesthetics. I believe in the unity of knowledge which results in seeking answers to our research questions both in well-known texts and entirely different fields. My goal is to generate hypotheses, create models with predictive values and therefore testability. These models are applied to rabbinic, literary, and philosophical texts in order to understand the underlying unity in world cultures. I engage in classical problems of philology including word studies such as when, where and who the authors of anonymously presented literature are. In the Deaprtment of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations my courses require knowledge of Hebrew. In the Department for the Study of Religion my courses are in translation.