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Dr. Hillel Mali

Email
hilelmali@gmail.com
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Academic Education

2019 – 2021: New York University, School of Law, Gruss Scholar in Residence (Supervisor: Professor Moshe Halbertal); Topic of research: Biblical and Rabbinic Law

2020 – 2021: Princeton University, Program in Judaic Studies and Department of Religion, Departmental Guest (Supervisor: Professor Martha Himmelfarb); Topic of research: Second Temple literature

2019 – 2020: Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University, School of Law From Topic of research: From Priestly literature to the Order of Holy Things: a study of the relationship between ritual and law

2018 – 2019: Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Post-Doctoral Fellow, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2014 – 2018: Ph.D. in Talmudic and Halakhic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, "Descriptions of the Temple in the Mishna: History, Redaction and Meaning" (Supervisor: Professor Aharon Shemesh Z"L; PhD dissertation approved with distinction; degree awarded: July 2018) 

2010 – 2013: M.A. (magna cum laude), Talmud Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel (Supervisor: Professor Aharon Shemesh Z"L)

2004 – 2007: B.Ed. (magna cum laude), Herzog College, Bible and Talmud

 

Rabbinic Education

2006 – 2010: Rabbinical Ordination, Chief Rabbinate of Israel (Yoreh Yoreh)

2006  – 2009: Research Fellow at Beit Morasha, Jerusalem

2002 – 2004: Yeshivat Otniel

 

Professional Experience and Appointments

2021 – 2023: Lecturer in Bible, Bar-Ilan University, The Bible Department

2018 – 2019: Lecturer in Bible and Talmud, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem

2016 – 2019, 2021 – 2023: Lecturer in Bible and Oral Law, Herzog College, Alon Shvut

2010 – 2016: Lecturer in Biblical Archaeology and History, Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem; Lecturer in Biblical Archaeology, Megalim Institute, Jerusalem; Lecturer in Bible and Talmud, Matan - Women's Institute for Torah Studies

2012 – 2015: Editor of Beit Ha-Yotzer (a Journal for teachers and tour guides, bringing together various fields of knowledge connected to Jerusalem and connecting educational-identity discourse with academic discourse)

2007 – 2013: Director of the Omek Hashetach project - a Jerusalem studies and leadership studies program for pre-military preparatory programs and military command staff

 

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

2023 – 2026: Alon Fellowship, the Planning and Budgeting Committee in the Israeli Council for Higher Education fellowship for excellent young faculty members

2024: Beit Shalom Foundation research grant

2019 – 2021: The Gruss Fellowship at NYU School of Law

2019 – 2020: Fulbright Post-doctoral Fellowship, the United States-Israel Educational Foundation

2018: Riklis Prize, Bar-Ilan University for Academic Excellence in Jewish Law and Jewish Studies

2018 - 2019: Research Scholarship – The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls

2016 - 2018: Nathan Rotenstreich Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students

2014 - 2018: President's Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students

2012: Excellence Stipend from the Gaspar Fund, the Department of Talmud, Bar-Ilan University

 

Musical Career

Founder, musical director and flutist of the "Nigun Yerushalmi" ensemble. Inspired by old musical traditions, the ensemble performs world music played on antique instruments, produced two albums ("Mevukash" [2012] and "Sefat Hayom" [2016]), performed at international festivals (including Karibu Music Festival, Tanzania [2017]; Psalm Festival, Jerusalem [2018], among others), collaborated with internationally-acclaimed musicians (including Meir Banai, David D'or, Daniel Zamir, Mark Eliyahu and others) and has held hundreds of performances in Israel and abroad.

Courses

The Biblical Polemic against Idolatry

Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi

A Brief History of the Bible: The Greatest Ideas of the Book of Books

Exile, Return and Hope during the Judean Restoration

Tabernacle, Temple, and Hekhalot: Images of the Temple in the Hebrew Bible: Interpretation, Theology, and Politics

Studies in Biblical Eschatological Literature

Bavli and Yerushalmi Tractate Berakhot: A Comparative Study

The Vision of Isaiah:  A Literary and Historical Reading

"Mishnah Rishonah": The Early Sources of the Mishnah

Descriptions of the Temple in Tannaitic Literature

Studies in Biblical Restoration Literature

The Temple in Dispute: The Struggle Over the Role of the Temple in the Late Second Temple Period

Publications

Articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals

  1. Hillel Mali, Esti Eshel and Daniel Machiela "The Sacrifices of Noah's in Genesis Apocryphon: A New Reading and Interpretation, Meghillot [In Hebrew; accepted for publication, roughly 11,000 words]
  2. The Prophet and the Priestly Teaching – A New Reading of Haggai 2:10–19, Shnaton: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, [In Hebrew; accepted for publication, roughly 13,000 words]
  3. Hillel Mali and Naphtali S. Meshel, "From Leviticus to 4QTohorot A and the Principle of Hierarchic Impurity,” Meghillot [In Hebrew; accepted for publication, roughly 8,000 words]
  4. "Sancta Contagion: from the Bible to Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature,” Sidra: A Journal for the Study of Rabbinic Literature [In Hebrew; accepted for publication, roughly 17,000 words]
  5. Naphtali S. Meshel, Hillel Mali and Anand Mishra, "Biblical and Vedic Science of Sacrifice: An Experiment in Transposition," Harvard Theological Review 117:4 (2024): 655 – 680
  6. "Priestly Offering: Law and Narrative in the Aramaic Levi Document," Harvard Theological Review 117:1 (2024): 1–20
  7. Naphtali S. Meshel and Hillel Mali, "Two Models for Pollution, Part A: From Leviticus to Late Second Temple Literature," Jewish Studies Quarterly 30 (2023): 109–137
  8. Hillel Mali and Naphtali S. Meshel, “Two Models for Pollution, Part B: From Qumran to the Karaites, from the Mishnah to Maimonides," Jewish Studies Quarterly 30 (2023): 235–258
  9. "Garbage Disposal in the Temple and the Tannaitic Concepts of Holiness," Tarbiz LXXXVIII (2022): 339-370 [In Hebrew]
  10. "A Walled City: Tannaitic Descriptions of the First Fruits Procession," Te'udah 31 (2021): 411 – 449 [In Hebrew]
  11. "Priestly Instructions in the Aramaic Levi Document and the Order of the Morning Daily Sacrifice," Meghillot 14 (2019): 119-138 [In Hebrew]

 

Additional Publications:

  1. "From Ritual to the Story of Ritual: The Influence of the Destruction of the Temple on Ritual Writing of the First Century CE," in Angelika Berlejung, Aren M. Maeir and Takayoshi M. Oshima (eds.), Writing and Re-Writing History by Destruction: Proceedings of the Annual Minerva Center RIAB Conference (Leipzig 2018), Mohr Siebeck 2022, pp. 141 – 155
  2. Naphtali S. Meshel, Anand Mishra, Hillel Mali and Meera Shridhara, "Thinking Rite: Towards Talmudo-Mīmāṃsā,” in Proceedings of the Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Conference ‘Tradition of Commentaries and the Dynamics of Knowledge’ (February 2020( Somnath, Gujarat: Shree Somnath Sanskrit University, 2020
  3. " Aharon Shemesh ז”ל", Shnaton: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 26 (2020): 33 – 38 [In Hebrew]
  4. "Conceptual and Ideological Aspects in the Mishnaic Description of Bringing the First Fruit to Jerusalem," in by Claudia D. Bergmann and Benedikt Kranemann (eds.), Religious Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Context, Leiden: Brill 2019, pp. 128 – 147
  5. "The Story of Theodotus's Synagogue," Beit Ha-yotzer 2 (2013): 26 — 38 [In Hebrew]
  6. "Jerusalem of Rabbi Aqiva and the Bar Kokhva Revolt," Beit Ha-yotzer 3 (2015): 52-71 [In Hebrew]

 

Articles in Preparation:

  1. "Law and Narrative in the Sacrificial Law of the Aramaic Writings in Qumran," in: H. Drawnel (ed.), Levitical Priesthood in the Aramaic Levi Document, STDJ: Brill
  2. "Genesis Apocryphon and Jubilees: A New Solution to an Old Problem" (under review)
  3. "Structure and Meaning in Haggai 1: 1 – 11" (under review)

Last Updated Date : 29/11/2024