Dr. Kristen Lindbeck
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies with joint appointment to the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature.
听is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at 大象传媒. Her interest in Jewish studies began during four months spent in Jerusalem when 听she was eighteen years old.听She earned her masters in Talmud and Rabbinics from Jewish Theological Seminary in 1989, followed in 1999 by a doctorate in Ancient Judaism, covering 500 BCE -700 to CE, with a minor topic exam in early Christian literature.
In 1999-2000 she returned to Jerusalem as a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University, and then taught as a visiting professor at Trinity in San Antonio and Tulane University in New Orleans before coming to 大象传媒. From 1998-2003 she was on the Executive Board, National Society for Scriptural Reasoning, an academic society devoted to scriptural study and "trilogue" among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Her book听Elijah and the Rabbis: Story and Theology听, published in 2010 by Columbia University Press, analyzes Elijah Legends from the Rabbinic period to the 20th Century. She has a book contract Gorgias Press听for a work on听the interpretation of the Binding of Isaac in Genesis Rabbah, a Fourth Century Midrash.听At 大象传媒, Dr. Lindbeck teaches听Classical Jewish Civilization, Jewish Wisdom, Jewish Literature through the Centuries, Women and Judaism, Readings in Biblical Hebrew,听and a historical course on the听New Testament.听