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Yehuda Septimus
Post Doctoral Fellow
Yehuda Septimus recently completed his doctorate in Religious Studies at Yale University. His dissertation, On the Boundaries of Prayer: Rabbinic Ritual Texts with Addressees Other Than God, examines the rhetorical, ritual, and definitional limits of rabbinic prayer based on ritual recitations preserved in talmudic texts addressed to non-divine beings such as humans and angels. He received a B.A. in English literature and rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. In the 2008-2009 academic year, he was the Gruss Scholar in Residence at the New York University School of Law. His research interests include Talmud and Midrash; Jewish Ritual and Synagogue Culture; and the intersection of early Christianity and Judaism.