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JONATHAN WYN SCHOFER Date: April 29, 2018 Contact Information: Associate Professor of Religious Studies Department of Religious Studies University of Texas, Austin 2505 University Avenue Stop A3700 Austin, Texas 78712-1090 Office Phone: 512-232-8382 Cel Phone: 608-334-5579 Email: [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2013 – present Associate Professor of Religious Studies (with tenure), also Schustermann Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 2012 – 2013 Visiting Associate Professor of Religion, Reed College, Portland, OR. 2008 – 2012 Associate Professor of Comparative Ethics, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 2006 – 2008 Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethics, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 2003 – 2004 External Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. 2000 – 2005 Belzer Assistant Professor of Classical Rabbinic Literature, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, also Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies Program, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. 1999 Visiting Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, IL. 1 EDUCATION 2000 Ph.D. with distinction, History of Religions / History of Judaism The University of Chicago Divinity School, The University of Chicago. 1997 – 1998 Talmudic studies, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. 1994 M.A., The University of Chicago Divinity School, The University of Chicago. 1991 M.A., Social Sciences in Education, Stanford University. 1991 B.A. with distinction, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Stanford University. PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS (PEER REVIEWED) Midrash Rabbah and Judaism: The Canonical Development of Holidays, Law, and Leadership (in preparation, a full manuscript is available). Tents: The Body, Domestic Space, and Impurity in Jewish Law (in preparation, a full manuscript is available). Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. Notable Selection, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards, Association for Jewish Studies, 2008. PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER REVIEWED) “Canonical Midrash and the Aggadic Response to Biblical Law: Exodus Rabbah on the Ten Commandments and the Covenant Code” (in preparation, a full manuscript is available). “Midrash Rabbah and the Holidays: Unexpected Exegetical Homilies Regarding the New Year, Sukkot, and Passover” (in preparation, a full manuscript is available). “The Legal Framing of Food and Festivity in the Mishnah: Tractates Tithes and Second Tithe” (in preparation, a full manuscript is available). “Ethical Formation and Subjection.” Numen: The official journal of the International Association for the History of Religions 59/1 (2012): 1-31. “Theology and Cosmology in Rabbinic Ethics: The Pedagogical Significance of Rainmaking Narratives.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 12/3 (2005): 227-259. 2 “Self, Subject, and Chosen Subjection: Rabbinic Ethics and Comparative Possibilities.” Journal of Religious Ethics 33/2 (2005): 255-291. Thomas A. Lewis, Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Aaron Stalnaker, and Mark A. Berkson, “Anthropos and Ethics: Categories of Inquiry and Procedures of Comparison.” Journal of Religious Ethics 33/2 (2005): 177-185. “Protest or Pedagogy? Trivial Sin and Divine Justice in Rabbinic Narrative.” Hebrew Union College Annual 74 (2003): 243-278. “Spiritual Exercises in Rabbinic Culture.” Association for Jewish Studies Review 27/2 (2003): 203-225. “The Redaction of Desire: Structure and Editing of Rabbinic Teachings Concerning Yeser (‘Inclination’).” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 12/1 (2003): 19-53. “Virtues in Xunzi’s Thought.” The Journal of Religious Ethics 21/1 (1993): 117-136. Reprinted in Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi, edited by T. C. Kline and P. J. Ivanhoe. 69-88. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 2000. PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS (INVITED) “Subject Formation/Subjectivity.” In The Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics, edited by William Schweiker. Wiley Blackwell (submitted). “Wisdom in Jewish Theology.” In The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and Wisdom Literature, edited by Will Kynes. Oxford University Press (accepted). “Ethical and Moral Duties in Rabbinic Judaism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law. Oxford University Press (accepted). “Classical Jewish Ethics and Theology in the Halakhic Tractates of the Mishnah.” In Imagining the Jewish God, edited by Len Kaplan and Ken Koltun-Fromm, 47-62. New York: Lexington Books, 2016. “Theology of Law: Rabbinic Literature.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law, editor-in-chief Brent Strawn, 400-407. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. “Exegesis.” In Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, edited by Robert Segal and Kocku von Struckrad. Brill Publishers, 2014 (internet). “Rabbinic Ethics.” In International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette. Wiley-Blackwell Reference Online, 2013 (internet). “Ethics, Rabbinic.” In The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture, edited by J. Baskin, 162-163. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 3 “Avot de Rabbi Nathan.” In The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture, edited by J. Baskin, 47-48. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. “The Different Life Stages: From Childhood to Old Age.” In The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine, edited by C. Hezser, 327-343. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. “Rabbinic Ethical Formation and the Formation of Rabbinic Ethical Compilations.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature, edited by C. Fonrobert and M. Jaffee, 313-335. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. “Self-Cultivation and Relations with Others in Classical Rabbinic Thought.” In Moral Cultivation: Essays on the Development of Character and Virtue, edited by B. Wilburn, 85-100. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. “The Beastly Body in Rabbinic Self-Formation.” In Religion and the Self in Antiquity, edited by D. Brakke, M. Satlow, and S. Weitzman, 197-221. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. Frank Reynolds and Jonathan Schofer, “Cosmology.” In A Companion to Religious Ethics, edited by W. Schweiker, 120-128. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS AND ESSAYS (INVITED) Review of Mira Balberg, Purity, Body, and the Self in Early Rabbinic Literature. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2014. Body and Religion (submitted). Review of Gregg Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. The Journal of Jewish Ethics 3:2 (2017): 267-269. Review of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents, edited by Jonathan K. Crane. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. The Journal of Jewish Ethics 3:2 (2017): 270-273. Review of Dov Weiss, Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism. Philadelphia, PA: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (2016). http://readingreligion.org/books/pious-irreverence Review of Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought, edited by Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth. Lincoln, NE: The University of Nebraska Press, and Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 2015. Journal of Jewish Ethics 2:2 (2016): 87-91. 4 “Current Jewish Theological Responses to Contemporary Issues: A Review of William E. Kaufman, The Jewish Philosophical Response to the New Atheists – Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2014; and Jeff Levin, Upon These Three Things: Jewish Perspectives on Loving God. Waco, TX: ISR Books, 2014. Journal of Jewish Ethics 2:2 (2016): 80-87. Review of The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality, edited by Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow, CCAR Challenge and Change Series. New York: CCAR Press, 2014. Journal of Jewish Ethics 1:2 (2015): 262-265. Review of Jerome Neu, On Loving Our Enemies: Essays in Moral Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2012). “Ethics and Vulnerability in Watchmen,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin 37/2-3 (2009): 64-69. “Comment: Virtues and Vices of Relativism,” Journal of Religious Ethics 36/4 (2008): 763-769. “Book Discussion: Embodiment and Virtue in a Comparative Context,” Journal of Religious Ethics 35/4 (2007): 713-728. “The Image of God: A Study of an Ancient Sensibility,” Journal of the Society for Textual Reasoning 4/3 (2006) (internet). “In the Image of God,” Shema 34 (2003): 5. Review of Jeffrey Rubenstein, Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1999. Hebrew Studies XLII (2001): 382-385. Review of David Kraemer, The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism. New York: Routledge, 2000. Journal of Religion 81/3 (2001): 501-502. Philip J. Ivanhoe and Jonathan Schofer, Index. In A.C. Graham, Two Chinese Philosophers. La Salle, IL: Open Court Press, 1992. AWARDS Notable Selection, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards, Association for Jewish Studies, 2008. University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Stipend, 2005. Exceptional Professor, University of Wisconsin CSS Residence Hall Community, 2004. Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship. 2003 – 2004. University of Wisconsin Graduate