Prof. Meir Bar Ilan

Curriculum Vitae

E-Mail: Meir.Bar-ilan@biu.ac.il

URL: http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/

Born: New York, November 5, 1951

Married: 5 children

Citizenship: USA / Israel

Education:

1980   Bar-Ilan University, Israel      B. A.

1983   Bar-Ilan University, Israel      Ph. D.

Academic Employment

1980-82            Bar-Ilan University, Israel            Instructor 

1984-89            Bar-Ilan University, Israel            Lecturer

1991-92            Holon City College, Israel            Senior Lecture

1990-95            Bar-Ilan University, Israel  

2000-07            Bar-Ilan University, Israel            Associate Professor

2008-09            Bar-Ilan University, Israel            Talmud Department, Chair

2010-15            Bar-Ilan University, Israel            Talmud Department, Chair 

Visiting Appointments:

1982-3 Hebrew University   Research Associate

1988-9 Harvard University   Research Associate

2000-1 Vienna University     Guest Professor

Doctoral Advising:

2009    Yossi Ziv                     Hilkhot Shabbat in Beta Israel

2011    Shai Valter                  Calendrical Realia and Astronomical Knowledge in the Talmud

2013    Adir Dahoah-Halevi   'Midat Hassidut': From Theory to Practice in Post-Talmudic

                                                Rabbinical Responsa

2014    Chaim Zvi Oelbaum    The Tradition of Mishnaic Flora (together with Prof. Z. Amar)

2015    Tziporah Lifshitz         Beauty as a Value in Rabbinic Literature: Analysis of Rabbinic

                                               Approaches to Beauty in Human Beings and Nature