President
Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
BA, MA Paris; PhD Cambridge; FBA
judith.schlanger@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew
Dr Hallel Baitner
hallel.baitner@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Dr Danielle Drori
PhD New York University
Dr Miri Freud-Kandel
MA PhD Camb
miri.freud-kandel@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Modern Jewish Theology
Professor Martin Goodman
MA DPhil Oxf; FBA
martin.goodman@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Jewish history of the Second Temple and Talmudic periods
Professor Martin Goodman was President of the Centre from June 2014-September 2018. Professor Goodman has served as Professor of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford since 1991 and has been a Fellow of the Centre since 1986.
Dr Daniel M. Herskowitz
Professor Adriana X. Jacobs
BA William and Mary, PhD Princeton
adriana.jacobs@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Modern Hebrew Literature
Dr César Merchán-Hamann
BSc Universidad de los Andes MA, PhD Lond
cesar.merchan-hamann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Professor David Rechter
BA (Hons) MA (Hons) Melbourne, PhD Heb Univ Jerusalem
Modern Jewish History, particularly Habsburg Empire
Professor Alison Salvesen
MA DPhil Oxf
alison.salvesen@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Early Jewish and Christian translation and interpretation of scripture; Jewish Aramaic – Talmud, Targum Jewish Greek – Septuagint and Minor Versions
Dr Jeremy Schonfield
BA Hons East Ang, PhD Camb
jeremy.schonfield@blueyonder.co.uk
Literary-critical approaches to the Liturgy
Dr John Screnock
PhD, University of Toronto
Ancient Hebrew, the development of texts in Jewish antiquity, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint
Dr Blanca Villuendas Sabate
blanca.villuendassabate@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Dr Beruriah Wiegand
BA MA Lond, PhD UCL
Dr Benjamin Williams
BA, MSt, DPhil Oxf
benjamin.williams@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Midrash; medieval and early modern Jewish exegesis of the Hebrew Bible; Rabbinic exegesis in medieval Christian commentaries
Emeritus Regius Professor Hugh Williamson
Professor Yaacov Yadgar
BA, PhD Bar-Ilan