ד"ר יפעת מוניקנדם

About

Yifat Monnickendam is a senior lecturer at the Department of Jewish History. Before arriving at Tel Aviv University, she was a Crane Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at the Jewish Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She earned her PhD at the Department of Talmud, Bar Ilan University

Dr. Monnickendam’s specializes in the comparative study of Jewish, Christian, and Roman sources from antiquity to early Byzantium, viewing them through the lens of legal issues. By applying philological and comparative methods to texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Latin, she addresses questions regarding the sources, formation, and development of each of these texts individually and on the trends and ties between the different Mediterranean communities in late antiquity, ties which led to polemic, adoption of legal traditions, or their preservation

Her current research project, focuses on the Syro-Roman Lawbook (sponsored by the Israel Science Foundation). In this project she studies the Syro-Roman Lawbook and its relation to its contemporary and early Roman, Christian and Jewish surrounding. As part of this project Dr. Monnickendam initiated a research lab, in which she intends to develop a database of Syriac texts which mention law and practice, using NLP methods. The lab is open to research students with working knowledge of Greek or Syriac, or to students interested in NLP and digital humanities. This project continues a previous project, titled Hidden Law sponsored by the European Commission, Marie Curie Career Integration Grant

Research Interests

Talmud and Halakha; Roman Law; Greek and Latin Christianity; Syriac Christianity; Jewish-Christian Relations; Late Antique and early Medieval legal History; Legal Transplants