Michael Fishbane

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Michael Fishbane is a scholar of Judaism and rabbinic literature. Formerly at Brandeis University, he is the Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies at the Divinity School, University of Chicago.

Fishbane (Ph.D., Brandeis University) is well known as a Hebrew Bible scholar, especially for Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel and his work on the JPS Bible. He has also written on midrash, mysticism and on myth. He has received the Lifetime Achievement in Textual Studies award from the National Foundation of Jewish Culture.

[edit] Bibliography

• Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel. Oxford University Press. [1]
• Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking. Oxford University Press. [2]
• Garments of Torah
• The Kiss of God
• The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology
• Biblical Text and Texture: A Literary Reading of Selected Texts. Oneworld Publications, 1998. ISBN 1851681515.
• The JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2002. ISBN 0-8276-0691-5.

Fishbane's next major book on theology is forthcoming [publication date has changed].

[edit] Sources

• University of Chicago website [3]