Lee I. Levine

Lee I. Levine is a Talmud scholar and historian of classical Judaism. He is a professor of Jewish history and archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He received degrees at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), where he was ordained as a Rabbi, and Columbia University. He was a student of Gerson Cohen.

He has been a teacher at: Hebrew University, JTS, Yale University and the Seminary of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem.

Levine has engaged in a number of archaeological excavations, and has organized academic conferences.

Bibliography

* "The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years", Second Edition, Yale University Press, 2005
* "Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period (538 B.C.E.-70 C.E.)", Jewish Publication Society of America, 2003
* "Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity: Conflict or Confluence?", Hendrickson Publishers, 1999
* "Rabbinic Class of Roman Palestine in Late Antiquity", Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1990