Prof. Bernard M. Levinson holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at the University of Minnesota, with an affiliated appointment to the Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. His research focuses on biblical and cuneiform law, intertextuality, and the Bible’s relation to Western intellectual history. Levinson is the author of Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (1997); “The Right Chorale”: Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (2008); Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel (2009); and A More Perfect Torah: At the Intersection of Philology and Hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll (2013). He has published a number of well-received edited volumes, including, most recently, The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich (2022). The interdisciplinary significance of his work has been recognized with appointments to the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the National Humanities Center, and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, where he co-led a research group on the formation of the Pentateuch. He is an elected member of the American Academy for Jewish Research. For more, see http://levinson.umn.edu/.