Christine E. Hayes
Yale University
Christine Hayes (1984 B.A. summa cum laude Harvard University, 1990 M.A. and 1993 Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley) is Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University. A specialist in Talmudic-Midrashic studies, her published works include
Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds (Oxford University Press, 1997; recipient of the 1999 Salo Baron prize for a first book in Jewish thought and literature, awarded by the American Academy for Jewish Research),
Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud (Oxford University Press, 2002; a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award),
The Emergence of Judaism (Greenwood Press, 2007; Fortress Press 2010) and numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and scholarly anthologies.
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With the support of a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation, Hayes spent 2005-2006 at the Yale Law School, and is nearing completion on a book on divine law. Hayes is active in professional and academic organizations, currently serving on the program committee of the Association for Jewish Studies.
