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Associate
Professor of Religion
Ph.D., Jewish Studies, Stanford University, 1993
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Koltun-Fromm was born and raised in Rochester NY. She received a BA
in history from Barnard College in 1986, and her MA (1988) and PHD
from Stanford in history and Jewish Studies in 1993. Several of her
graduate and post-graduate years were spent in Jerusalem at the Hebrew
University. Dr. Koltun-Fromm was Director of Jewish Studies at Tulane
University for two years before joining the Haverford College faculty
with her husband in a joint position in the Department of Religion.
Professor Koltun-Fromm specializes in Late Ancient Jewish history,
Jewish and Christian relations, religious polemics, comparative biblical
exegesis, rabbinic culture and the Syriac speaking churches. Her present
work focuses on the interchanges and parallels both historically and
exegetically between Syriac Christianity and rabbinic Judaism in fourth-century
Persian Mesopotamia. She is presently finishing a book entitled Hermeneutics
of Holiness: Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and
Religious Community which traces the nexus of sexuality and holiness
from the biblical texts into the fourth century rabbinic and patristic
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Courses Hebrew
Bible and Its Interpretations |
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