Bernard Malcolm Levinson | |
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| Born | 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Title | Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law |
| Academic background | |
| Education | York University, McMaster University |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University (PhD) |
| Thesis | (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Fishbane |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Biblical studies |
| Institutions | Middlebury College The Pennsylvania State University Indiana University University of Minnesota |
| Notable works | Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation |
Bernard Malcolm Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible.[1] He is the author of Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation, "The Right Chorale": Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation, and Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel; and is the co-editor of The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance. He has published extensively on biblical and ancient Near Eastern law and on the reception of biblical literature in the Second Temple period. His research interests extend to early modern intellectual history, constitutional theory, the history of interpretation, and literary approaches to biblical studies.[2]