Michael Carasik, Ph.D.

Adjunct Instructor

215.576.0800

Michael Carasik, Ph.D., teaches biblical Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Arts from New College, bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Spertus College of Judaica and a doctorate in Bible and the ancient Near East from Brandeis University. His most recent articles are “A Deuteronomic Voice in the Joseph Story,” in Mishneh Todah (the Festschrift for Jeffrey Tigay) and “Syntactic Double Translation in the Targumim,” forthcoming in a volume of studies from a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar in Aramaic at Duke University. He is also the creator, editor and translator of the Commentator’s Bible series, an English-language version of the traditional Bible commentaries known as Miqra’ot Gedolot; the first volume, Exodus, appeared in 2005, and the Leviticus volume in 2009 (Jewish Publication Society). He has also published Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel (Peter Lang Publishing Group). He is the darshan of Minyan Sulam Yaakov (at the Y in Center City Philadelphia), and his weekly Torah Talk podcast can be found at http://torahtalk.michaelcarasik.com/ or in the iTunes Store.