Noah Bickart
Assoc Professor/Mandel Chair
Background
Professor Noah Benjamin Bickart holds the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at John Carroll University. He earned his Ph.D. in Talmud and Rabbinic Studies from JTS, where he also received rabbinical ordination. A graduate of the University of Chicago and the Harvard Divinity School, he was also a post-doctoral fellow at Yale. He is the author of The Scholastic Culture of the Babylonian Talmud (Gorgias, 2022).Areas of Expertise
- Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
- Midrash
- Hebrew Bible
- Hebrew Language
- New Testament
- Religion in Late Antiquity
Education
Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary of AmericaM.T.S., Harvard Divinity School
A.B. University of Chicago
Courses Taught
TRS 1100 Exploring the Bible: GenesisTRS 2410 Introduction To (Rabbinic) Judaism
TRS 3110 Abraham: Father of Many Nations
TRS 3420 Ancient Jewish Prayer
TRS 3412 Jewish Messianism
TRS 4990: Senior Seminar
TRS 3416: The Rabbis On Sex & Gender
Publications
The Scholastic Culture of the Babylonian Talmud, Judaism in Context Vol. 31, Gorgias Press, 2022.
"Lashes Of Fire: An Ancient and Modern Punishment for Boundary Violations" Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy (Forthcoming, Spring 2026)
"He Found a Hair and it Bothered Him:" Female Pubic Hair Depilation in the Babylonian Talmud, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, No. 35 (Fall 2019), pp. 128-152
"Overturning the 'Table': The Hidden Meaning of a Talmudic Metaphor for Coitus," Journal of the History of Sexuality 25:3 (September, 2016), pp. 489- 507.
"Gufei Sanhedrin: An Analysis of the Term ????†in Tractate Sanhedrin" in Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin Carol Bakhos and Alyssa M. Gray, editors (Brown Judaic Studies 372, 2024)
Contributor to Chapter on “Law and Religion” in The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law Edited by Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson and Patrick Olivelle. (2 vols, Cambridge University Press.
