Yonathan Miller

Assistant Professor

Education

PhD, Harvard University
MA, Harvard University
BA, Yeshiva University

Areas of Expertise

Jewish Reception of the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Literature, Rabbinic Literature, Interreligious Studies, Bible as Literature, Translation of Classical Jewish Texts

Bio:

Yonatan Miller is Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and a core faculty member of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.

Miller’s research and teaching interests span from the Hebrew Bible through the Cairo Geniza. He is interested broadly in the first millennium of Jewish biblical interpretation, with specific interests in post-destruction literature on the Israelite priesthood, the material history of ancient Jewish literature, and epistemological issues in the study of ancient Judaism.

Recently his translation of Mishnah Yoma was published in the Oxford Annotated Mishnah and he has articles forthcoming in the Harvard Theological Review and in a number of edited volumes. Previously his work has featured in the Journal of Ancient Judaism, Jewish Studies Quarterly, and the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. He is currently working on a monograph entitled Rewriting Priestly Authority in Late Antiquity and is co-editing a book entitled Motifs in Biblical Literature: Contours, Critiques, and New Horizons, which will be published with T&T Clark (Bloomsbury).

Miller regularly presents at the national meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature and Association for Jewish Studies and has been invited to present papers at both national and international symposia. He is also a much sought-after speaker in local Jewish communities.

Prior to coming to UConn, Miller was the Philip Markowicz Endowed Assistant Professor of Judaism and Jewish Biblical Studies at the University of Toledo, in Northwest Ohio.