Marc D. Herman [email protected] (347) 835-0310

Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization Yale Law School 127 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06511

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Ph.D. in Religious Studies, 2016 Dissertation: “Systematizing God’s Law: Rabbanite Jurisprudence in the Islamic World from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Centuries” Committee: Robert Brody, Talya Fishman, and Joseph Lowry

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA A.M. in Religious Studies, 2013 Comprehensive Exams: Medieval Jewish Culture, Early Modern Jewish Culture, and Islamic Law

Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York, NY Completed Masters Coursework, Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, 2007-2009

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA B.A. with Highest Honors, magna cum laude in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, 2005 Senior Honors Thesis, “Orthodoxy and Modernity: Rabbi Hayyim Hirschensohn’s Malki ba- Kodesh, Responsa Regarding Women, Non-Observance, and Biblical Criticism” Director: Jonathan Sarna

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Spring 2021 Alan M. Strook Fellow, Harry Starr Fellowships in Judaica, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University Theme: The Changing Contours of Jewish Thought

Fall 2020 Arresty Visiting Scholar, Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University

2019-2020 Islamic Law and Civilization Research Fellow, Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization, Yale Law School

2018-2020 Senior Researcher, Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization

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2018-2019 Institute Fellow, Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Theme: Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Early Modern

2017-2018 Rabin-Shvidler Joint Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies, Columbia University and Fordham University

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

Imagining Revelation: Medieval Jewish Presentations of the Oral Torah in an Islamic Key (manuscript requested by the University of Pennsylvania Press for inclusion in its Jewish Culture and Contexts series).

Edited Volume

Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism: Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism, and Kabbalah (under review with Études sur le judaïsme médiéval series at Brill Publishers; with Jeremy Brown).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“What is the Subject of Principle Two in Maimonides’s Book of the Commandments? Towards a New Understanding of Maimonides’s Approach to Extrascriptural Law.” Association for Jewish Studies Review 44, no. 2 (forthcoming, 2020).

“Two Themes in Maimonides’ Modifications to his Legal Works.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 139, no. 4 (2019): 907-922. Hebrew translation forthcoming in Mekhilta: Ketav ʿet le-torah ule-ḥokhmah.

“Prophetic Authority in the Legal Thought of Saadia Gaon.” Jewish Quarterly Review 108, no. 3 (2018): 271-294.

“Situating Maimonides’s Approach to the Oral Torah in its Andalusian Context.” Jewish History 31, no. 1-2 (2017): 31-46.

“‘This is One of the Commandments that Devolve upon the Community’: Ḥovot ha-Tzibbur (Communal Obligations) as a Resource for Imagining Jewish Community.” University of Toronto Journal of Jewish Thought 6 (2017): 17-46 (with Jon Levisohn).

Other Journal Articles

“Reading Rabbinic Debate in Medieval Al-Andalus.” Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Early Modern, special issue of Frankel Institute Annual (2019): 19-21.

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Book Chapters

“Introduction: The Commandments as a Discursive Nexus of Medieval Judaism.” In Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism: Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism, and Kabbalah, edited by Jeremy Brown and Marc Herman (under review; written with Jeremy Brown).

“Enumerating the Commandments during the Early Thirteenth-Century Maimonidean Controversy.” In Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism: Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism, and Kabbalah, edited by Jeremy Brown and Marc Herman (under review).

“What is ‘Islamic’ about Geonic Depictions of the Oral Torah?” In Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam, edited by John Tolan (London: Routledge, 2019), 117-131.

Reviews (selected)

Review of Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and its History in Islamic Spain, by Sarah Stroumsa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. International Journal of Middle East Studies (forthcoming).

Review of Jewish Law and American Law: A Comparative Study, by Samuel J. Levine. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. H-Judaic (forthcoming).

“Divine Law in Islamic Tradition,” Review of What’s Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives, by Christine Hayes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. September 2017. ancientjewreview.com/articles/2017/9/5/divine-law-in-islamic-tradition.

Review of Maimonides in his World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker, by Sarah Stroumsa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Sephardic Horizons 5, no. 3-4, August 2015.

Review of The Economy of Certainty: An Introduction to the Typology of Islamic Legal Theory, by Aron Zysow. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2013. Blog of the Center for Jewish Law, Cardozo Law School, January 2014. blogs.yu.edu/cjl/2014/01/06.

Review of Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Chazan, edited by David Engel et al. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Blog of the Center for Jewish Law, Cardozo Law School, June 2013. blogs.yu.edu/cjl/2013/06/10.

Review of A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews Under Early Islam, by Uriel L. Simonsohn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Blog of the Center for Jewish Law, Cardozo Law School, January 2013. blogs.yu.edu/cjl/2013/01/07.

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Conference Review, Legal Heterodoxy in Islamic and Jewish History. The Talmud Blog, May 2012. thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/02.

Review of Innovation in Jewish Law: A Case Study of Chiddush in Havineinu, by Michael J. Broyde. Jerusalem: Urim Publications, 2010. Blog of the Center for Jewish Law, Cardozo Law School, September 2011. blogs.yu.edu/cjl/2011/09/14.

Review of Law and Truth in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature, by Chaya T. Halberstam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Blog of the Center for Jewish Law, Cardozo Law School, February 2011. blogs.yu.edu/cjl/2011/02/22.

Podcasts

Podcast interview, “The Oral Torah in an Islamic Key.” Part of the Frankely Judaic series, Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, 2019. lsa.umich.edu/judaic/resources/frankely-judaic-podcasts.html.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Maimonides and Andalusian Legal Thought.” Stranger in a Land: Late-Antique and Medieval Narratives on Foreigners and Exile, University of Córdoba, March 2020.

“Maimonides in his Workshop: A View from the Commentary on the Mishnah.” Association for Jewish Studies Conference. December 2019.

“Maimonides’s Circumvention of Qaraite Scriptural Interpretation.” Society for Judaeo- Arabic Studies in the Middle Ages Conference, University of Antwerp. July 2019.

“The Oral Torah as Ideology in al-Andalus.” Institute Symposium: Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Early Modern, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. March 2019.

“Maimonides’ Systematic Attempts to Organize Jewish Law.” Annual Meeting of The Medieval Academy of America. March 2019.

“Maimonides’s Presentations of the Oral Torah in their Islamic Contexts.” Works in Progress Group in Jewish Studies, Association for Jewish Studies Conference. December 2018.

“From the Commentary on the Mishnah to the Book of the Commandments.” Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies in the Middle Ages Conference, Bar Ilan University, August 2017.

“Between Rabbis and Rabbanites: The Role of Qaraism and Islam in Shaping Geonic Presentations of the Oral Torah.” Geneses: Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam, Institut du Pluralisme Religieux et de l’Athéisme, Université de Nantes, May 2017.

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“Enumerating the Commandments at the End of the Eastern Maimonidean Controversy.” Association for Jewish Studies Conference. December 2016.

“History in Service of Law,” Discussant. The Study of Law and History: Bridging Methodological and Disciplinary Divides, Cardozo Law School, September 2016.

“Principle Two in Maimonides’ Sefer ha-Miṣvot in Light of his Theories of the Oral Torah.” Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies in the Middle Ages Conference, Vanderbilt University, August 2016.

“Biblical Law and the 613 Commandments.” Cardozo Center for Jewish Law Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University, May 2016.

“Reconsidering Geonic Approaches to the Oral Torah.” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, December 2015.

“Andalusian Rabbanite Doctrine of the Oral Torah in Light of Islamic Legal Theory.” Religion & Law: Religious Studies Graduate Conference, McMaster University, October 2015.

“Three Arabic Terms in Maimonides’ Book of the Commandments.” Association for Jewish Studies Conference. December 2014.

“From Baghdad to the Rhineland: Anthropomorphic Liturgy and the Limits of Theology.” Circulating Jews: Graduate Conference for Jewish Studies, Yale University. November 2012.

“One or Three Central Problems for Medieval Rabbanite Legal Theory.” Cardozo Center for Jewish Law Graduate Student Conference, Cardozo Law School. March 2012.

“Human Law in Divine Hands: Legal Pluralism, ‘Globalization,’ and Mystical Responsa in Medieval Provence.” Eleventh Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History, Harvard University. March 2011.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)

“Maimonides between the Mālikīs and the Almohads.” Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School. November 2019.

“Maimonides the Mālikī.” Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies and Middle East and North African Studies Program, Northwestern University. May 2019.

“Andalusian Independence from Geonic Authority in its Mālikī and Almohad Contexts.” Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. January 2019.

“Maimonides’ Manuscripts as a Window into his Thought Process.” Columbia University Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. February 2018. Marc D. Herman 6

“Legal Theory and Revelation: Jewish Law in an Islamic Milieu.” Fordham Center for Jewish Studies and Fordham Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work. February 2018.

“Jewish and Islamic Depictions of Jewish Traditions in the Geonic Period.” Yeshiva College Honors Program and the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, December 2017.

“Debating the Mosaic Distinction: Jan Assmann and the Problem of Monotheism.” Religious Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. February 2012.

“Human Law in Divine Hands: A Provençal Rabbinic Response to Northern French Law.” Religious Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. March 2011.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor of Record

Spring 2018 Jewish and Islamic Legal Traditions. Department of History, Fordham University.

Fall 2017 Understanding Historical Change: Jews in the Ancient and Medieval World. Department of History, Fordham University.

Fall 2016 Islam and Judaism: Law and Religion. Judaic Studies and Political Science, Drexel University.

Online Course Design

Spring 2020 Typology of the Hebrew Script. Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania. EdX Massive Open Online Course, Teaching Assistant (taught by J. Olszowy-Schlanger).

Summer 2016 The History of Medieval Medicine through Jewish Manuscripts. Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania. EdX Massive Open Online Course, Teaching Assistant (taught by Y. Tzvi Langermann).

ACADEMIC HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS

2020 Career Consulting Award, Association for Jewish Studies.

2017-2018 Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

2017-2018 Research Fellow, Religion Studies Department, Lehigh University.

2016-2017 Adjunct Fellow, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

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2016-2017 Association for Jewish Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (finalist).

2016 Knapp Graduate Student Travel Grant, Association for Jewish Studies.

Fall 2016 Margaret Schoenfeld Falk Memorial Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.

2015-2016 Education Fellow, Jewish Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania.

2014-2016 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Doctoral Scholarship Grant.

2014-2015 Dissertation Fellowship in Jewish Studies, Knapp Family Foundation, University of Pennsylvania.

2010-2014 Goldfein Research Awards in Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

2010-2012 Graduate Fellow in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies, Cardozo Center for Jewish Law, Cardozo Law School.

2009-2013 Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XXII.

2008-2009 Mordecai D. and Dr. Monique C. Katz Fellow, Bernard Revel Graduate School.

2007-2008 Irving and Helen Spatz Scholar, Bernard Revel Graduate School.

2005 Doris Brewer Cohen Award for Best Senior Thesis in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University.

2005 Alumni Association Award for Leadership, Brandeis University.

2002-2005 Dean’s List, Brandeis University.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Ongoing Manuscript review, Association for Jewish Studies Review, European Journal of Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies Internet Journal, Near Eastern Archaeology.

2014 Panel Co-Organizer. Jewish Law and Practice in the Medieval Islamic World. Association for Jewish Studies Conference.

2014 Conference Co-Organizer. Warring Words: Rethinking Polemic in the Study of Jews and Judaism. Graduate Student Conference. University of Pennsylvania.

2013 Conference Co-Organizer. Jewish Networks through Time and Space. Graduate Student Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania. Marc D. Herman 8

2013 Conference Assistant Organizer. Shaping Legal Cultures from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Institutions, Genres, and Theories in Roman, Jewish, Sassanian, Christian, and Islamic Law. University of Pennsylvania.

2012 Conference Assistant Organizer. Packaging Legal Traditions in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. University of Pennsylvania.

2011 Conference Co-Organizer. Text: Authority, Gender, & Creativity. Wexner Graduate Fellowship Summer Institute.

2010-2011 Organizer. Jewish Studies Graduate Colloquium. University of Pennsylvania.

LANGUAGES

Arabic (reading) Aramaic (reading) French (fluency) German (reading) Hebrew (fluency) Judeo-Arabic (reading) Spanish (reading)

REFERENCES

References available upon request.