Christine Hayes
Christine Hayes is an American academic and scholar of Jewish studies, currently serving as the Sterling Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University, specializing in Talmudic and Midrashic studies and Classical Judaica.
Christine Hayes | |
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| Born | December 6, 1960 |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds: Accounting for Halakhic difference in selected Sugyot from tractate Avodah Zarah (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Boyarin |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Talmudic-Midrashic Studies |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Website | Yale Faculty Page |
Before her appointment at Yale, she served as the assistant professor of Hebrew studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, at Princeton University, where she completed her first book Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds (1997) based on her PhD work. Her first monograph was awarded the Salo Baron prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research.
Her second monograph, Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities (2006), was a finalist for the National Jewish Book award, and her third monograph, What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives, has won three prestigious awards. From 2017–2019, Hayes served as President of the Association for Jewish Studies.