Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin

Carol Bakhos is Professor of the Study of Religion and of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA. She is the author of The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Interpretations (Harvard University Press) and coeditor of The Jewish Middle Ages (SBL Press) and Emerging Judaism (Yale University Press, forthcoming).

Alyssa M. Gray is the Emily S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in Rabbinics and Professor of Codes and Responsa Literature at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Her books include Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and Righteousness (Routledge) and A Talmud in Exile: The Influence of Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah on the Formation of Bavli Avodah Zarah (Brown Judaic Studies).