Israel, Land of Cultural Treasures

Carol Bakhos is Professor of Jewish Studies and Study of Religion at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA, and Chair of the undergraduate Interdepartmental Program in the Study of Religion. Her most recent monograph, The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Interpretations (Harvard University Press, 2014), was recently translated into Turkish. Her other works include: Ishmael on the Border: Rabbinic Portrayals of the First Arab (SUNY, 2006), winner of a Koret Foundation Award, the edited volumes: Judaism in its Hellenistic Context (Brill, 2004), Current Trends in the Study of Midrash (Brill, 2006) and the co-edited work, The Talmud in its Iranian Context (Mohr Siebeck, 2010), and more recently Islam and Its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity and the Qur’an (Oxford University Press, 2017), co-edited with Michael Cook. She is currently working on Volume 2 of the Posen Jewish Anthology of Culture and Civilization for Yale University Press, and is the co-editor of the premiere journal in Jewish Studies, AJS Review. In 2017 Bakhos received an NEH summer-institute grant for “Religious Landscapes of Los Angeles: Exploring and Teaching Religious Diversity Through Civic Engagement.”