Graduate Theological Union
Center for Jewish Studies
Assistant Professor of Rabbinics and Late Antique Judaism

At GTU since 2007

MA and PhD, Princeton University (2007)
MA, University of Amsterdam (1999 and 2001)
DEUG, Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg (1998)

Phone: 510/649-2488
E-mail: hzellentin@gtu.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Rabbinic Literature in its Greek and Sassanian context
• Heresy
• Hellenistic and Christian Judaism

Selected Publications

• “The End of Jewish Egypt- Artapanus’s Second Exodus,” in Gregg Gardner and Kevin Osterloh (eds.), Antiquity in Antiquity, Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen (forthcoming).
• Co-editor, with Eduard Iricinschi, Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2008.
• “Margin of Error: Women, Law, and Christianity in Bavli Shabbat 116a–b,” in: Eduard Iricinschi and Holger Zellentin (eds.), Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2008, 339-363.
• “How Plutarch Gained his Place in the Tosefta,” in Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, volume 4, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 2004, 19-28.