Michael S. Berger
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office: S210 Callaway Memorial Center
Phone: 404-727-6258
Fax: 404-727-7597
Email: michael.berger@emory.edu
Additional Contact Information
Mailing Address:
Department of Religion, Emory University
Mailstop: 1535/002/1AA
537 Kilgo Cir., S214 Callaway Bldg.
Atlanta, GA 30322
Biography
Michael S. Berger, Associate Professor. He received his B.A. cum laude with Honors in Religion from Princeton, M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Columbia. He also received a Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Hebrew University, Israel. His research and teaching focus on issues of religious authority, rabbinic literature, and the development of Jewish law in Judaism. He is the author of Rabbinic Authority (Oxford, 1998), and edited The Emergence of Ethical Man (2005) based on the writings of the late Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He has written on medieval & modern Jewish thought, Jewish marriage, and violence in Judaism. He is currently exploring issues in contemporary Jewish identity and education, for which he serves as a consultant.
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