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 "Transcending the Boundary of Death: Ecclesiastes Through a Nabokovian Lens," in Biblical Interpretation 14, 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 new Commentator's Bible series, an English-language version of the traditional Bible commentaries known as Miqra'ot Gedolot; the first volume, Exodus, appeared in the fall of 2005 (Jewish Publication Society). The next year saw the publication of his book Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel (Peter Lang Publishing Group). He serves as vice president of the Center City Eruv Corporation, president of the Center City Kehillah, and darshan of the Gershman Y Congregation.