Dr. Yael Ziegler

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  Yael Ziegler

  Lecturer in Tanakh · Herzog College and Matan

  Author of Promises to Keep and Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy.

Teaching

Tanakh at Herzog College and Matan

Dr. Yael Ziegler lectures in Tanakh at Herzog College in Alon Shvut and at the Matan Women's Institute for Torah Studies in Jerusalem.

She has lectured widely on Tanakh topics in Israel, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia and Europe. She lives in Alon Shvut, Israel.

Education

Stern College and Bar-Ilan University

Dr. Ziegler took her BA at Stern College, and an MA and PhD in Bible at Bar-Ilan University.

In a Jewish Action interview she described how the medieval commentators help a reader translate the verse, while the Midrash steps back to give a larger sense of its message.

Books

Promises to Keep, and the Book of Ruth

Dr. Ziegler is the author of Promises to Keep: The Oath in Biblical Narrative (Leiden, 2008).

Her second book, Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy (Jerusalem, 2015), is a study of Megillat Ruth. Herzog College has published her audio shiurim on the biblical context of the story of Ruth, on the theme of kindness.

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