Vered Noam

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Vered Noam (2010)

Vered Noam ( Hebrew ורד נעם Wered Noʿam ), née Elitzur (* 1960 in Jerusalem ), is a professor at the Faculty of Jewish Philosophy and Talmudic Studies at Tel Aviv University and chairwoman of the University's Chaim Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies and Archeology (Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archeology). In 2020 she was the first woman to be awarded the Israel Prize in the Talmudic Studies category. In its decision, the award selection committee said that Noam did “excellent research” and that their work covered “a wide range of subjects from second-period literature to Talmudic literature, from ancient traditions rooted in rabbinical literature to the Talmudic exegesis of the Rishonim ”.

Life and teaching

Vered Elitzur grew up in the Jerusalem district of Rechavia in a religious-Zionist family. Her father was Yehuda Elitzur (1911-1997), a professor of biblical studies at Bar-Ilan University . Her mother, the pedagogue Rivka Elitzur geb. Schmidt (1920–1979), is known as a children's author. Vered Noam was the youngest of five siblings. Her older brother Uri Elitzur (died 2014) was an activist of Gush Emunim , a graduate of the Merkas haRaw Kook - Yeshiva and later a journalist and publicist of the Israeli settler movement. Another brother, Yoel Elitzur, is Professor of Land Israel Studies at the Herzog College for Teachers in Allon Shevut in the West Bank.

Vered Elitzur became interested in the Talmud from an early age. She attended the Evelina de Rothschild high school; no Talmud lessons were given to girls there. Therefore, she took part in Talmud courses twice a week at the newly opened Pelech Girls' School. In 1979 she began her military service, which she completed as an instructor at the Keshet Field School in the Golan Heights . In 1981 she began studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studying archeology and Talmudic studies. In archeology, Yigael Yadin and Yoram Tsafrir were among their teachers; She learned the Talmud from Yaakov Sussman, David Rosenthal, Menachem Kahana and Robert Brody (MA 1989, Ph.D. 1997, both summa cum laude ). She completed her doctorate with a scientific edition of Megillat Taanit, an ancient Aramaic text listing important days in Israel's history, mostly from the Hasmonean period . The specialty of Noam's edition is that it offers the different versions of the old Hebrew commentary ( Scholion ) on this Aramaic text as a synopsis .

Vered Noam has been an Associate Professor since 2008, and has held the Chair of Talmudic Studies at Tel Aviv University since 2014.

Vered Noam's research focuses on the Second Temple period as the link between biblical Judaism and rabbinical Judaism. In particular, she deals with the development of halacha since the creation of the Dead Sea Scrolls .

Vered Noam is among other things co-editor of the Dead Sea Discoveries ( DSD ) series and the journal Jewish Studies Quarterly. Her book Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award 2018.

Vered Noam has been married to Elchanan Noam, the owner of a financial advisory firm, since 1981. The couple live in Kfar Adumim (West Bank); they have six children.

Publications (selection)

  • Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018. ISBN 9780198811381 .
  • Embryonic Legal Midrash in the Qumran Scrolls . In: Nora David, Kristin De Troyer , Armin Lange , Shani Tzoref (Eds.): The Hebrew Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, pp. 237–262.
  • A Qumran Composition of Sabbath Laws and Its Contribution to the Study of Early Halakha . In: Dead Sea Discoveries 16, 1/2009, pp. 55-96.
  • The Dual Strategy of Rabbinic Purity Legislation . In: Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period 39, 4/2008, pp. 471-512.
  • Megillat Taanit - The Scroll of Fasting . In: Shmuel Safrai et al. (Ed.): The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud , Volume 3: The Literature of the Sages . Gorcum & Fortress, Assen 2003, pp. 339-362.
  • Art. Megillat Ta'anit . In: Judith R. Baskin (Ed.): The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture . Cambridge University Press 2011, pp. 417f.
  • Art. Corpse Impurity . In: Dale C. Allison (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception . Volume 5. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c BnF Data: Yoel Elitzur .
  2. ↑ Adiv Sterman: Leading pro-settler journalist Uri Elitzur it at 68 . In: The Times of Israel, May 22, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Noam, Vered
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noʿam, Wered (spelling according to WP conventions for Hebrew); ורד נעם (Hebrew spelling); Elitzur, Vered (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli university teacher, professor of Talmudic studies
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem