Gerald Blidstein
Visiting Professor of Law, Spring 2009

Ph.D., 1968, Yeshiva University

Specialty: Jewish Law

Course: Maimonides on the Theory and Authority of Jewish Law

Gerald Blidstein is a professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. Professor Blidstein will be the Ivan Meyer Visiting Scholar in Comparative Jewish Law, and will teach a course on "Maimonides on the Theory and Authority of Jewish Law." His research interests include the history of halakhah, philosophy of halakhah, Maimonides, ethics and halakhah, prayer, aggadah, and political thought. His publications include Political Concepts in Maimonidean Halakhah (Hebrew); Authority and Dissent in Maimonidean Law (Hebrew); and Studies in Halakhic and Aggadic Thought (Hebrew). Professor Blidstein received the coveted Israel Prize in Jewish Thought in 2006.