Daniel Sperber
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Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber was born on November 4, 1940 in Gwrych Castle, Wales.
He studied for rabbinical ordination at Yeshivat Kol Torah in Israel, earned a doctorate from University College, London in the departments of Ancient History and Hebrew Studies.
He is currently Professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and serves as Rabbi of Congregation Menachem Tzion in the Old City of Jerusalem. His academic expertise is in classical philology, history of Jewish customs, Jewish art history, Jewish education, and Talmudic studies.
His publication record in Jewish studies includes Minhagei Yisrael: Origins and History on the character and evolution of Jewish customs. He won the Israel Prize in 1997.
His studies include examination of halakhic and minhagic foundations of the role of women in Judaism. He has been a participant in conferences of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.
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- Sherman Lectures, University of Manchester, 2004
- Sperber, D., "Congregational Dignity and Human Dignity: Women and Public Torah Reading” (pdf) Edah 3:2, 2002
- Bar-Ilan University Talmud Department
- Sperber, D. "'Friendly' Pesaq and the 'Friendly' Poseq" (pdf) Edah 5:2, 2006
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- Minhagei Yisrael: Origins and History. Mossad Harav Kook, 1998.
- Derech Eretz Zuta and Perek Hashalom (3rd Edition) [in Hebrew]. , 1994.
- Magic and Folklore in Rabbinic Literature, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1994
- Great is Peace, Jerusalem, 1979.
- Roman Palestine 200-400: Money and Prices, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1974; second edition with supplement 1991 .
- Roman Palestine 200-400: The Land, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1978, .
- A Dictionary of Greek and Latin Terms in Rabbinic Literature, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1984, (second expanded edition in preparation).
- Nautica Talmudica, Bar-Ilan University Press and E.J. Brill, 1986, .
- A Commentary on Derech Eretz Zuta Chapters 5-8, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1990.
- Roman Palestine 100-400: The City in Roman Palestine, Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Why Jews Do What They Do. New Jersey, 1999.
- Essays on Greek and Latin in the Mishna, Talmud and midrashic 1982
- Ten Best Jewish Children's Stories
- Nautica in Talmudic Palestine. Mediterranean History Review, vol. 15, 2001
- Paralysis in Contemporary Halakhah? Tradition 36:3 (Fall 2002), 1-13.
- Tarbut Homrit Be'eretz Yisrael Beyemai Hatalmud (Material Culture in Eretz-Israel during the Talmudic Period), Vol. 2, Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi & Bar Ilan University
