Moshe Assis, Dept. of Talmud

Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):

Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. BA: 1965,

MA: 1970, Ph.D: 1976.

Professional Experience Includes:

1979 - Professor of Talmud, TAU

Major publications (books and major articles):

1. A Fragment of Yerushalmi Sanhedrin, Tarbiz 46 (1977), pp. 29-90. (Hebrew).

2. A Responsum on the Fixing of the Calendral Year 4848 (era mundi = 1077/8), HUCA 49 (1978), pp. 1-27. (Hebrew Section).

3. On the Version of Yerushalmi Tractate Shekalim of R. Shlomo Sirilio, Studies in Memory of the Rishon le-Zion R. Yitzhak Nissim, 2, Jerusalem 1985, pp. 119-159. (Hebrew).

4. On the Question of the Redaction of Yerushalmi Nezikin, Tarbiz 56 (1987), pp. 147-170. (Hebrew).

5. Prolegomenon to a Critical Edition of Tractate Arakhin, Asufot 5 (1991), pp. 9-101. (Hebrew).

Teaches in the following subject areas:

Yerushalmi, Babli, Gaonic Literature, Babylonian and Palestinian Aramaic.

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:

Yerushalmi Mezia I-II; Babli Megilla II-III; Babylonian and Palestinian Aramaic; Introduction into the Gaonic Literature.

Awards and grants :

1980/1 Institute for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem). Fellowship.
1993/4 Center for Judaic Studies (Philadelphia). Fellowship.

Areas of current research interest:

The Terminology of the Yerushalmi; Comnentary on Yerushalmi Tractate Nezikin.

Additional points of contact (office/home telephone, fax,etc.):

972-2-5824480 (home phone)

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