Dr. Bark Cohen
CV
Education
| 2000-2004 | Ph.D | Bar-Ilan University | Talmud |
| 1999-2000 | M.A | Bar-Ilan University | Talmud |
| 1995-1998 | B.A | Open University | Jewish History |
| 1998-2000 | Teaching Certificate | Moreshet Ya'akov Seminary | Judaism: Bible and Oral Law |
Doctoral thesis:
"Rav Sheshet and his Interpretive and Analytical Methodology." Advisor: Prof. M.S. Feldblum, Prof. S. Z. Havlin
Positions Held
| 2016-2021 | Senior Lecturer | Bar-Ilan University, Department of Talmud | (1) Babylonian Amoraim: History, Legal Rulings and Source (2) Talmudic Terminology |
| 2019 | Visiting Lecturer | Jewish Theological Seminary and Yeshiva University (teaching during sabbatical) | (1) Babylonian Amoraim: History, Legal Rulings and Source (2) Talmudic Terminology |
| 2004-2016 |
2004-2010: Assistant 2010-2016: Lecturer |
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Talmud | (1) Babylonian Amoraim: History, Legal Rulings and Source interpretation (2) Talmudic Texts (3) Amoraic Baraitot: Nature, Source and Content |
| 2011-2013 | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University | Babylonian Amoraim: History, Legal Rulings and Source interpretation |
Visiting Lecturer (summer semesters) |
| 2007 |
Visiting Scholar |
Taylor-Schechter Research Institute, Cambridge University Library | Historiographic Literature on Babylonian Amoraim |
Grants and Awards
| 2018 | Hatikva – EU | "Confession of Sins in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Literature" |
| 2016 | University Presidential Grant (The 'Beit Shalom-Kyoto Foundation'), Bar – Ilan University |
From Palestine to Babylonia: Rabbinic Traditions in Transition and the Beginnings of Talmud (forthcoming book) |
| 2014 | The Sander and Samuel Kolatch Graduate Program in Talmudic and Rabbinic Studies, Bar – Ilan University | Was There Really a Rava II in Sasanian Babylonia? |
| 2007-2011 | University Presidential Grant (The 'Beit Shalom-Kyoto Foundation'), Bar – Ilan University | The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia |
| 2007 | Center for Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (CEMUS) | Historiographic Literature of the Babylonian Amoraim (Geonim and Rishonim) |
Publications
List of Publications
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Cohen, B.S. |
"On Local Academies in Talmudic Babylonia" (Hebrew), Zion 70 (2005): 447-471 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"Rav Nahman and Rav Sheshet: Conflicting Methods of Exegesis of Tannaitic Sources" (Hebrew), Hebrew Union College Annual 76 (2005): 11-32 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"Contrasting Study Methods of the Latter Nehardeans in The Babylonian Talmud' (Hebrew), Hebrew Union College Annual 78 (2006): 1-24 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"Rashi's Historiographical Concepts of the Babylonian Amoraim" (Hebrew), Jewish Studies, An Internet Journal 6 (2007): 1-19 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"How Many R. Hamnunas in the Babylonian Talmud? A Study in Talmudic Chronology", Review of Rabbinic Judaism 10 (2007): 95-113 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"'May You Live to One Hundred and Twenty': The Extraordinary Life-Span of Several Babylonian Amoraim according to Rashi", Review of Rabbinic Judaism 10 (2007): 221- 235 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"Legal Analogies in the Babylonian Talmud", Diné Israel 25 (2008): 149-184 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"In Quest of Babylonian Tannaitic Traditions: The Case of 'Tanna D'bei Shmuel", AJS Review 33 (2009): 271-303 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"In Nehardea Where there are No Heretics": The Purported Jewish Response to Christianity in Nehardea (A Re-Examination of the Talmudic Evidence)", Studies in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity: Text and Context (ed. Dan Jaffe), Brill: Leiden 2010: 29-44 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"The 'Amoriac Baraitot' in Nehardea: The Case of 'Tannei Tanna Kameh'", Hebrew Union College Annual 82-83 (2011-2012): 29-59 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"'Shmuel said: Hilkheta': The Halakhic Rulings of Shmuel in the Two Talmudim" (Hebrew), Jewish Studies, An Internet Journal 12 (2013): 1-32 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"On Rashi's Interpretations of One Talmudic Rule in the Babylonian Talmud ("amar rav peloni mishmeh de-rav almoni)" (Hebrew), A. Cohen, ed. Rashi and His Disciples (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press 2013): 93-109 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"Was There Really a Rava II? (A Re-Examination of The Talmudic Evidence)", The Jewish Quarterly Review 103 (2013): 273-297 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"In Quest of Babylonian Tannaitic Traditions II: The Case of Avuha de-Shmuel", Journal of Jewish Studies 66 (2015): 59-78 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
"'Amoraic Baraitot' Reconsidered: The Case of Tannei Tanna Kameh', AJS Review 39 (2015): 93-120 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
Cohen, 'Dating Anti-Christian Sources in the Babylonian Talmud', in Jews and Christians in Antiquity: The Parting of the Ways (eds. Y. Teppler, R. Nir, D. Jaffé), Brill, 2022 [upcoming] |
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Cohen, B.S. |
B.S. Cohen, 'Citation Formulae in the Babylonian Talmud: From Transmission to Authoritative Traditions', Journal of Jewish Studies 70 (2019), pp. 24-44 |
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Cohen, B.S. |
B.S. Cohen, 'The Use of Literary Considerations as a Key for Assessing the Reliability of Memrot in the Babylonian Talmud: The Case of the Lo Shanu Ela Traditions', in Land and Spirituality in Rabbinic Literature (eds. Steven Fine, Shana Schick), Brill: Leiden 2022 [upcoming] |
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B.S. Cohen, 'Professor Wilhelm Bacher’s Contribution to the Study of the Intellectual World of the Amoraim,' Revue des Études Juives 181 (2021) [upcoming] |
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Cohen, B.S. |
B.S. Cohen, 'The Tannei Rav Peloni Baraitot in the Babylonian Talmud: From Recitation to Ascription', Journal of Ancient Judaism 10 (2021) [upcoming] |
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Cohen, B.S. |
'"Veha Amar Rav Peloni": The Development of the Talmudic Objection in the Bavli' (Hebrew), Sidra 35 (2022) [upcoming] |
Courses
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Workshop (Hebrew) |
02-0040-74 |
The Thought and Principals of the Sages |
credits equal 2 Annual course hours |
Annual |
For general high school graduates |
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Course (Hebrew) |
02-499-70 |
The World of the Sages in Rabbinic Literature |
credits equal 2 Annual course hours |
Annual |
For general high school graduates |
Via Zoom |
Research
Babylonian Amoraim: History, Legal Rulings and Source; Talmudic Terminology
- Last modified: 4/07/2022
