Azzan Yadin

Azzan Yadin-Israel is a Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. ^{[1] [2]}

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Hebrew University and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. ^[1] His work engages with early rabbinic literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish mysticism, and Platonic thought. ^[3]

Selected publications

• Yadin, Azzan (Spring 2001). "A Web of Chaos: Bialik and Nietzsche on Language, Truth, and the Death of God". Prooftexts (PDF). 21 (2): 179–203. doi:10.1353/ptx.2001.0020. ISSN   0272-9601. OCLC   362383448. S2CID   170149391.
• Yadin, Azzan (July 2002). "SAMSON'S HIDÂ". Vetus Testamentum . 52 (3): 407–426. doi:10.1163/156853302760197539. ISSN   0042-4935. OCLC   441127375.
• Yadin, Azzan (2004). Scripture as logos : Rabbi Ishmael and the origins of midrash. Divinations. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   978-0-8122-3791-7. OCLC   611293122. LCC   BM517.M43 Y33 2004.
• Yadin, Azzan (July 2004). "Goliath's Armor and Israelite Collective Memory". Vetus Testamentum . 54 (3): 373–395. doi:10.1163/1568533041694573. ISSN   0042-4935. OCLC   441127375.
• Yadin, Azzan (Spring 2006). "Rabban Gamliel, Aphrodite's Bath, and the Question of Pagan Monotheism". Jewish Quarterly Review . 96 (2): 149–179. doi:10.1353/jqr.2006.0015. ISSN   0021-6682. OCLC   359856300. S2CID   170868963.
• Yadin, Azzan (Fall 2010). "Rabbi Akiva's Youth". Jewish Quarterly Review . 100 (4): 573–597. ISSN   0021-6682. OCLC   692686669 . Retrieved February 26, 2011.
• Yadin-Israel, Azzan (2015). Scripture andTradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Yadin is also the translator of a two-volume collection of essays by Israeli scholar David Flusser entitled Judaism of the Second Temple Period (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007, 2009). ^[4]

External links

• Personal website

References

1. Goldstein, Arlene. "Azzan Yadin". Jewish Studies Faculty. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University. Retrieved February 26, 2011.
2. "AZZAN YADIN". People Search – Rutgers Search. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University. April 12, 2010. Retrieved February 26, 2011.
3. Prince, Cathryn J. (May 11, 2017). "Into the Fire: A Jewish studies prof. searches for The Bible in the lyrics of The Boss". The Times of Israel . Retrieved December 3, 2025.
4. The quality of Yadin's translation has been criticized. See "Corrections and Emendations to Flusser’s Judaism of the Second Temple Period".