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Professor Jonathan Schofer
Divinity School
42 Francis Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138

Andover Hall
617-496-6495
617-496-8904
jonathan_schofer@harvard.edu

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Jonathan Schofer teaches and writes about the literature, thought, and religion of late ancient rabbis, with a focus on ethics and self-formation. Professor Schofer also has strong interests in comparative and theoretical inquiry. His first book, The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics , was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2005, and articles from that project have appeared in The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy and the Association for Jewish Studies Review . He has recently begun a new book on rabbinic self-formation, focusing on notions of embodiment, temporality, and spatiality. The study examines the ethical significances of the body, age, and the anticipation of death, everyday spaces such as the dining room and bathhouse, and the cosmos.