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Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish
History and Rabbinics,
Department of History and Jewish Studies Program
Ph.D., 1994, Columbia University; M.A., 1987, Jewish
Theological Seminary; B.A., 1987, Jewish Theological Seminary;
B.A., 1986, Columbia University
Dr. Lapin currently serves as the Director of the Meyerhoff Center. He is the author of Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee: A Study of Mishnah Tractate Baba' Mesi'a' (Brown Judaic Studies 307 through Scholars' Press, 1995) and Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine (Mohr Siebeck, 2001). He also has edited Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine (University Press of Maryland, 1998) and, with Dale Martin, Jews, Antiquity, and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (University Press of Maryland, 2003) and many articles on rabbis and rabbinic culture in the period of the Mishnah and Talmud.
Dr. Lapin is currently working on a book on the history of the rabbinic movement in Palestine. Since coming to Maryland he has been awarded a number of awards including an NEH Fellowship at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research (Jerusalem, 1996-1997) and a General Research Board Fellowship (1999).
Dr. Lapin can be reached at hlapin@umd.edu.
Course website: http://www.history.umd.edu/faculty/HLapin
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