Christine Hayes

Christine Hayes is the Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University, former Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, and one of the foremost American academics focusing on talmudic-midrashic studies and Classical Judaica. She is also a specialist in the History and Literature of Judaism in Late Antiquity. Before her appointment at Yale, she served as the Assistant Professor of Hebrew Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, at Princeton University from 1993 to 1996. She has published several books and numerous articles in American and international academic journals, and has received academic accolades. Her class on the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) was selected for the pilot program of “Yale University Open Courses,” [1] and has subsequently been one of the most watched online courses about Classical Judaica.

Hayes received her B.A. summa cum laude in The Study of Religion from Harvard University in 1984. She subsequently received an M.A. with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 which included a year of graduate work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD. in Talmudic and Judaic Studies (Department of Near Eastern Studies) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. She won a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation, and as a result Hayes spent 2005-2006 at the Yale Law School, where she studied and worked on her forthcoming scholarly book. In 2008, Hayes was elected to the American Academy of Jewish Research and since 2009, she has been an Affiliated Scholar with the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Cardozo Law School. She served as co-editor of the Association for Jewish Studies Review from 2012-2016, and in 2016 became Vice-President for Program of the Association for Jewish Studies. In 2015, Hayes was appointed a Research Fellow at the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute in New York.

What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives, Princeton University Press, 2015, winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award (the Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award) in the category of Scholarship.

Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds, Oxford University Press, 1997, awarded the Salo Baron Prize for a first book in Jewish Thought and Literature by the American Academy for Jewish Research, 1999.

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