Undergraduate Adviser and Director of Hebrew Program

606F Old Chemistry Building
513-556-2298
matthew.kraus@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Rabbi Matthew Kraus, a native of Cincinnati, graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1981 and Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1985. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Michigan in 1996 and was ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1991. His main interests include the history of biblical interpretation and Judaism in the Greek and Roman world. Editor of How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World (2006 Gorgias Press), he has also written on Jerome's translation of the Bible from Hebrew into Latin and on Philo, and he has given papers at scholarly conferences on the Old Latin version of the Bible and on the legend of the Septuagint (the Greek version of the Bible). An article entitled "Christian, Jews, and Pagans in Dialogue: Saint Jerome on Ecclesiastes 12:1-7" appeared in the 1999-2000 issue of Hebrew Union College Annual and he has also published articles in Tikkun and Vetus Testamentum. A frequent contributor to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, his essay 'New Jewish Directions in the Study of the Fourth Gospel" recently appeared in New Currents Through John: A Global Perspective (SBL 2006). Prof. Kraus spent 1999-2000 in Jerusalem on a Yad Hanadiv/Beracha foundation fellowship and lectured at Hebrew University on "Jerome as an Ethnographer of the Jews." He founded and chaired the Jewish Studies Program at Williams where he has taught courses on Bible in its Near Eastern Context, History of Interpretation of the Bible in the Greco-Roman Period, Introduction to Judaism, Myth and Biography in Late Antiquity (an upper-level Latin course on Apuleius' version of Cupid and Psyche and The Confessions of Augustine), and first and second year Latin and Greek. From 2006-2007, Kraus was lecturer in the Department of Classics, Religion and Philosophy at Wright State University. He is now a field service assistant professor for the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati where he directs the Hebrew program.

Positions & Work Experience

2007 to Present, Field Service Assistant Professor, Director of Hebrew Program and Posen Project Coordinator, University of Cincinnati.

2006-2007, Lecturer, Department of Religion, Philosophy and Classics , Wright State University.

2005-2006, Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Cincinnati.

02-2005-03-2005, Adjunct Professor, University of Cincinnati.

01-2005-03-2005, Adjunct Professor, Wright State University.

2002-2005, Associate Professor of Classics and Jewish Studies with tenure , Williams College.

1996-2002, Assistant Professor of Classics and Jewish Studies, Williams College.

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