Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Steven Weitzman is Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, and the
Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies. Weitzman specializes in the Hebrew Bible and the origins of Jewish culture. Recent publications include The Origins of The Jews (Princeton, 2017); Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity (Harvard University Press, 2005); Religion and the Self in Antiquity (Indiana
University Press, 2005); The Jews: A History (Prentice Hall, 2009); and a biography of King Solomon, part of the new “Jewish Lives” series, published by Yale University Press in 2011.

Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Bud Shorstein Professorship, the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica, and the Center for Global Islamic Studies