HAYIM LAPIN
Department of History
University of Maryland
2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
College Park, MD 20742

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
0142 Holzapfel Hall
College Park, MD 20742

(405) 405–4296 (O)/(301) 314–9399 (F)
hlapin@umd.edu

Director, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies.
Professor (appt. August 2005). Department of History, University of Maryland.
Joint appointment with Jewish Studies Program.

EDUCATION
PhD (Religion) Columbia University, With Distinction, 1994.
MA (Talmud) Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1987.
BA (Jewish History), With Honors, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1987.
BA (Ancient Studies), Magna cum laude, Columbia University, 1986.

BOOKS AUTHORED
Becoming Provincial: The Making of the Palestinian Rabbinic Movement. In preparation.
Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine. In Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001.
Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee: A Study of Mishnah Tractate Baba‘ Mesi‘a’. Brown Judaic Studies 307: Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

BOOKS EDITED
Jews, Antiquity and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination. With Dale B. Martin. Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2003.
Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine. Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 1998.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Origins and Development of the Rabbinic Movement.” In Cambridge History of Judaism IV, forthcoming. [28 pp.]
“The Construction of Households in the Mishnah.” In J. Neusner, A. Avery Peck, eds., The Mishnah: Contemporary Perspectives, Vol. 2. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming. [35 pp.]
“Some Observations on Mishnah Megillah 1:1–3.” Neti‘ot Ledavid. Ed. Y. Elman, et alii. Jerusalem: Orchot Press, 2004, 93–112.
“Introduction.” In Lapin, Martin, eds., Jews, Antiquty, and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination. Pp. 1–15.
“Maintenance of Wives and Children in Rabbinic and Documentary Texts from Roman Palestine.” In C. Hezser, ed., Rabbinic Law in its Roman and Near Eastern Context. Tübingen: Mohr, 2003. Pp. 177–198.
“Hegemony and its Discontents: Rabbis as a Late Antique Provincial Population.” In R. Kalmin and S. Schwartz, eds., Jewish Culture and Society under the Christian Roman Empire. Bremen: Peeters, 2003. Pp. 319–348.
“Institutionalization, Amoraim, and Yerushalmi Shebi‘it.”In P. Schaefer, ed., The Yerushalmi and its Greco-Roman Environment III. Tübingen: JCB Mohr, 2002. Pp. 161–182.
“Rabbis and Cities: Some Aspects of the Rabbinic Movement in its Greco-Roman Environment.” In P. Schaefer, ed., The Yerushalmi and its Greco-Roman Environment II. Tübingen: JCB Mohr. 2000. Pp. 51–80.
“Rabbis and Cities in Later Roman Palestine: A Survey of the Literary Evidence,” Journal of Jewish Studies 50 (1999), 187–207.
“Palestinian Inscriptions and Jewish Ethnicity in Late Antiquity.” In E. Meyers, ed. Galilee: Confluence of Cultures. Proceedings of the Second International Conference in Galilee. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999. Pp. 239–268.
“Introduction: Locating Religious and Ethnic Community in Later Roman Palestine.” In H. Lapin, ed., Religious and Ethnic Communities, 1–25.
“Application to Lease Katoikic Land” (revised version). In Columbia Papyri X .Ed. R. S. Bagnall, D. Obbink. American Society of Papyrologists, 1996. Pp. 45–49.
“Petition to the Strategos.” In Columbia Papyri X. Ed. R. S. Bagnall, D. Obbink. American Society of Papyrologists, 1996. Pp. 118–227.
“Jewish and Christian Academies in Roman Palestine.” Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective after Two Millennia. K. G. Holum, A. Raban, eds. DMOA 21: Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. Pp. 496–512.
“Rabbis and Public Prayers for Rain in Later Roman Palestine.” In Public and Private Religion in the Ancient Near East. Ed. A. Berlin. Meyerhoff Series in Jewish Studies: Potomac: CDL Press, 1996. Pp. 105–129.
“Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Literature of the Second Temple Period.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 2 (1995), 149–283.
“Palm Fronds and Citrons: Notes on Two Letters of Bar Kosiba’s Administration.” Hebrew Union College Annual 64 (1993), 111–35
“Rabbi.” The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Ed. D. Noel Freedman et al. Garden City: Anchor, 1992. V, 601–602.
“An Application to Lease Katoikic Land.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists. 28 (1991), 153–61.