Dr. Daphna Baratz
Dr. Daphna Baratz is a lecturer in the Lobel Core Curriculum at Shalem College. She holds a master’s degree in Classical Studies and a PhD in Talmud. Baratz is engaged in the study of Second Temple literature and rabbinic literature, and particularly in the study of interpretive literature on the Bible in Antiquity. She is currently a fellow in an ERC research program at Tel Aviv University and is working on the publication of new collections of Aramaic proverbs discovered in the Cairo Geniza. She previously taught Ancient Greek at Tel Aviv University.
Selected Publications
Articles in Journals and Encyclopedias
“Pestilence and the Plague of the Firstborn: A Study of the Origins of an Ancient Exegesis,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 14 (2023), pp. 1-28.
“The Evolution of the Story of the Sadducee Priest Who Prepared the Incense Outside,” Te’uda 33 (2021) (presented to Prof. Bezalel Bar-Kochva), pp. 957-974. [Hebrew]
“The Repetitive Structure in Verse: A Comparative Study in Homeric, South-Slavic and Ugaritic Poetry,” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 55 (2015), pp. 1-24.
110 minor entries in The Homer Encyclopedia, ed. M. Finkelberg, Malden, MA, and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Books and Translations
Noam and T. Ilan, in collaboration with M. Ben-Shahar, D. Baratz and Y. Fish, Josephus and the Rabbis: The Lost Tales of the Second Temple Period (vol. I) and Tales about the Destruction of the Temple (vol. II), Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 2017. [Hebrew]
“Philo, De Sobrietate” (annotated translation from Ancient Greek), in Philo of Alexandria: Writings, vol. IV part II, ed. M.R. Niehoff, Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2015, pp. 255-272. [Hebrew]