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Dr. Grunhaus

Naomi
Cohen
Grunhaus

Associate Professor of Bible

ngrunhau@yu.edu
646-592-4841

Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room #604

 

Wilf campus - Belz Hall (Furst)

Room #226

Dr. Naomi Grunhaus, Associate Professor

Stern College for Women

Bernard Revel Graduate School

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245 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10016
 

PhD, New York University, 2003
MA, New York University, 1994
MS, New York University, 1987
BS, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Naomi Grunhaus is Associate Professor at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and at Stern College for Women, where for more than two decades she has devoted herself to teaching Tanach and methodology of biblical interpretation.

Dr. Grunhaus is currently researching modifications in Radak's views between his writing the linguistic Shorashim and writing his commentaries. Her teaching interests include the Latter Prophets, Book of Deuteronomy, Jewish exegetical polemics, medieval Jewish biblical exegesis, and exegesis after the Jewish enlightenment.

Dr. Grunhaus is the recent recipient (2022-23, 23-24) of a research fellowship grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. In 2021-22, Â鶹Çø awarded her a Provost Research Award as well as a Chelst Book Grant. 

In addition to her book The Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas of Interpretation in Radak’s Biblical Commentaries, published by Oxford University Press in 2013, Dr. Grunhaus is co-editor of From Scrolls to Traditions: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, to be published in 2020 by E.J. Brill. She has authored scholarly articles, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries and is a frequent presenter at scholarly conferences in the U.S. and abroad.
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ngrunhau@yu.edu
646-592-4841

Beren campus - Stanton Hall (245 Lexington)
Room #604

 

Wilf campus - Belz Hall (Furst)

Room #226

Dr. Naomi Grunhaus, Associate Professor

Stern College for Women

Bernard Revel Graduate School

Â鶹Çø
245 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10016
 

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Fall 2024
Methods of Peshat - Biblical Stylistics

Honors BIBL 1084

 

Geulah and the Messianic Era

BIBL 2506

 

Rabbi David Kimhi and his Exegetical Methods

BIBL 6087