Faculty
Daniel K. Falk - Ancient Judaism and Biblical Studies
Interim Program Director, Associate Professor
Biographical Information
Ph.D., 1996, Cambridge; M.A., 1992, Regent; B.A., 1987, Providence. (1998)
Professor Falk's interests lie in the history and literature of ancient Judaism and the beginnings of Christianity, especially the development of prayer and liturgy, interpretation of scripture, and the formation of religious communities. His research focuses particularly on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which he is involved in translating and reconstructing. He is the author of Daily, Sabbath, and Festival Prayers in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill, 1998) and Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2007). He is co-editor of several other books: Sapiential, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran (Brill, 2000) and a 3-volume series on the history of penitential prayer entitled Seeking the Favor of God (SBL/Brill, 2006, 2007, 2008). Among numerous articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls, he published the official editions of two manuscripts from Qumran, "4QWorks of God" and "4QCommunal Confession," (in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 29; Oxford University Press, 1999).
Member, The International Team of Editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls; Editorial Board of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Editorial Board of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament; the Society of Biblical Literature; Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.
Email: dfalk@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541)346-4980
Office Address: 814 PLC
Office hours: Wednesday and Thursday - 1:00 to 3:00 PM
Judith R. Baskin - Judaic Studies
Knight Professor of Humanities
Associate Dean, Humanities
College of Arts and Sciences
Judith R. Baskin, Knight Professor of Humanities, currently serves in the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office as the Associate Dean of Humanities.
Professor Baskin was President of the Association for Jewish Studies from 2004 to the end of 2006. A recipient of the Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University in 1976, she taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1976-88, and at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she was Chair of the Department of Judaic Studies from 1988-2000.
Dr. Baskin is the author of Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002) and Pharaoh's Counsellors: Job, Jethro and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (1983). Her edited volumes include Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, now in its second edition (1998), and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994). She is currently editing two volumes for Cambridge University Press and is also writing a feminist commentary on Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud. Dr. Baskin has been at the University of Oregon since 2000.
Email: jbaskin@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541)346-3902
Office Address: 114 Friendly Hall
Deborah A. Green - Hebrew Language & Literature
Greenberg Assistant Professor
Biographical Information
Ph.D., 2003, University of Chicago; M.A., 1997, University of Chicago; B.A., 1984, Brandeis University.
Professor Green's interests lie in the history, literature, and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, particularly as it was adopted and interpreted by Jews from the Second Temple through Byzantine periods.
Her book, The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature (Penn State University Press, forthcoming) investigates rabbinic interpretation (midrash) of perfume and incense. She is particularly interested in the images of aromatics in the Hebrew Bible and how, in the course of interpretation, the early rabbis inscribe their own daily experience with aromatics upon the interpretations. In her latest project, Professor Green focuses on dangerous and liminal spaces in the Bible and ancient Jewish literature. She is principally interested in the intersection of women and such environments as the garden, the courtyard, and the rooftop - and how the valences of these narratives from biblical literature as well as everyday experience of these spaces are echoed and change in Hellenistic and early rabbinic literature.
Professor Green is also the co-editor of two books, Commemorating the Dead: Texts and Artifacts in Context: Studies of Roman, Jewish, and Christian Burials (Walter de Gruyter, 2008) and Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Email: dagreen@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541)346-5974
Office Address: 832 PLC
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday - 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Daniel Stein Kokin
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biographical Information
Ph.D., 2006, Harvard University; M.A., 1999, Harvard University; B.A.. 1997, University of Chicago
Professor Stein Kokin's interests lie at the intersection of Jewish studies and European intellectual history, especially in the Medieval and early Modern periods. He is particularly concerned with language as a demarcator and point of contention between Judaism and Christianity, and in the ways in which traditions and tropes evolve and are shaped in response to changing conditions. He is currently writing a book entitled The Hebrew Question in the Italian Renaissance, which explores humanist attitudes towards the Hebrew language and Jewish sources in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy and the controversy surrounding their study. He is also preparing an annotated translation of the 1517 Treatise on the Hebrew Letters of the Augustinian Cardinal Egidio da Viterbo for a forthcoming volume of the I Tatti Renaissance Library, and has recently submitted for publication articles on the use of labyrinths in Hebrew manuscripts, interest in Arabic in the early Italian Renaissance, and the interpretation of the sixteenth-century Italian Jewish scholar Azariah de' Rossi's Light of the Eyes. Professor Stein Kokin comes to the University of Oregon from Yale University, where he served from 2006 to 2009 as a Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Judaic Studies.
Email: dsk@uoregon.edu
Executive Committee
Daniel K. Falk, Religious Studies, dfalk@uoregon.edu
Monique Balbuena, Clark Honors College, balbuena@uoregon.edu
Judith R. Baskin, College of Arts and Sciences, jbaskin@uoregon.edu
Deborah A. Green, Religious Studies, dagreen@uoregon.edu
Jeffrey Librett, Germanic Languages and Literatures, jlibrett@uoregon.edu
David M. Luebke, History, dluebke@uoregon.edu
Daniel Stein Kokin, dsk@uoregon.edu
Participating Faculty
Diane B. Baxter, Anthropology, dbaxter@uoregon.edu
Shaul E. Cohen, Geography, scohen@uoregon.edu
Matthew Dennis, History, mjdennis@uoregon.edu
David Frank, Clark Honors College, dfrank@uoregon.edu
Marion Sherman Goldman, Sociology, mgoldman@uoregon.edu
Evlyn Gould, Romance Languages, evgould@uoregon.edu
Kenneth I. Helphand, Landscape Architecture, helphand@uoregon.edu
David M. Luebke, History, dluebke@uoregon.edu
Jack P. Maddex, History, jmaddex@uoregon.edu
Cheyney C. Ryan, Philosophy, cryan@uoregon.edu
Carol T. Silverman, Anthropology, csilverm@uoregon.edu
William Toll, History, btoll@uoregon.edu