Peter Schafer
Peter Schäfer
Peter Schäfer joined the faculty in 1998, appointed as the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religion. His teaching and research interests include Jewish History in Late Antiquity, the religion and literature of Rabbinic Judaism, Jewish Mysticism, 19th and 20th century Wissenschaft des Judentums, and Jewish Magic. In 1994 he was awarded the German Leibniz Prize and in 2006 the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award. His latest books are: Jesus in the Talmud, Princeton University Press, 2007, and Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah, Princeton University Press, 2002. Since 1993 co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly, Schäfer currently serves as the Director of the Program in Judaic Studies. He was on leave for the academic year 2007-08, during which he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, Germany.
Recent Publications
- Jesus in the Talmud
- Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah
