פרופ' ישי רוזן צבי

Grants:

• Israel Science Foundation  (2009-2012) - "The terminology of Tannaitic Midrash: towards a hermeneutic lexicon." Chief researcher.  (no. 41/09)    
• Israel Science Foundation (2019-2022) - "The Hermeneutic of Tannaitic Midrashim: Between Halakha and Aggada." Co-chief researcher.  (no. 293/19)    

Books:

• Between Mishnah and Midrash: The Birth of Rabbinic Literature (the Open University, Raanana 2019; Hebrew), 476 pages.
  • Book launch event in Shalom Hartman institute.
  • Book launch event in the Open university, Israel.
• An English translation of this book is forthcoming on 2023 by the University of California.

Articles:

• "Measure for Measure as a Hermeneutic Tool in Early Rabbinic Literature", Journal of Jewish Studies 56 (2006), pp. 269-286.
• "Two Rabbinic Inclinations? Rethinking a Scholarly Dogma", Journal for the Study of Judaism 39 (2008), pp. 513-539. 
• "Orality, Narrative, Rhetoric: New Directions in Mishnah Research", AJS Review 32 (2008), pp. 1-15.
• "Midrash and Reflectivity: Kishmu'o as a Test Case", M. Niehoff (ed.), Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 329-344.
• "Towards a Hermeneutic Lexicon of Midrashic Terminology", Jewish Studies 48 (2012), pp. 71-91. [Hebrew]
• "Structure and Reflectivity in Tannaitic Legal Homilies, or: How to Read Midrashic Terminology", Prooftexts 34 (2014): 271-301 
• "Midrashic Hermeneutics: Between Halakha and Aggadah" (with Assaf Rosen-Zvi), Tarbiz 86 (2019): 203-232 [Hebrew]
• "To See the Voices: Midrash and/as Revelation", B. Levinson (Guest Editor), Law, Society, and Religion: Essays in Memory of George E. Mendenhall, MAARAV, A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures 24 (2020): 193–206.
• Afterword to the Hebrew Translation of D. Boyarin, Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash (ed. E. Reiner, Jerusalem: Shalom Hartman Institute, 2012), 273-286.
•  "Introduction to the Mishnah", D. Rosenthal (ed. in chief), Rabbinic Literature of Eretz Israel: Introductions and Studies (Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 2018), pp. 1-64.
• "Paul and Universalism: 'A Radical Jew' Revisited", with Adi Ophir. M. Vidas, C. Fonrobert, A. Shemesh and I. Rosen-Zvi (eds.), Talmudic Transgressions: Encounters with Daniel Boyarin (Brill, Leiden, 2017), pp. 368-385.
• "Is the Mishnah a Roman Composition?", Ch. Hayes, Z. Novick and M. Bar-Asher Segal (eds.), The Faces of Torah. Studies in the Texts and Contexts of Ancient Judaism in Honor of Steven Fraade, Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements, vol. 22, Göttingen 2017, 487-508.
• "Two Midrashic Selves: Between Origen and the Mekhilta", in M. R. Niehoff and J. Levinson (eds.), Constructions of the Self in the Roman Empire (Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2019), 469-501. 
• "The Evil Inclination in Tannaitic Literature: Demonic Desires and Beyond", H. Patmore, I. Rosen-Zvi, J. Atikan (eds.), The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 115-125.
• "Early Judaism And Rabbinic Judaism", in M. Henze and Rod Werline (eds.), Early Judaism and its Modern Interpreters (Leiden, Brill, 2020), 489-518.
• "The Rhetorical Self in Tannaitic Halakha", Dead Sea Discoveries 28 (2021) 341–366.

Other publications:

•  “Mishnah, Midrash, and How to Read Tannaitic Literature,” Ancient Jew Review (Sep 2, 2020)