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Aslan Cohen Mizrahi is Perilman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University. Born and raised in Mexico City, Aslan earned a BA in Economics from ITAM and a BA in Philosophy from UNAM. In 2014, Aslan moved to Chicago to pursue an MA in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago, where he later received a PhD in Hebrew Bible (2024). His interests range from the narrative voicing in the Pentateuchal Priestly History to the uses of biblical texts in the wake of the Holocaust. He lives in Durham with his wife and two children.

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Mon/Wed 1:00 p.m. — 2:45 p.m.; Gray Building, 230D (Center for Jewish Studies).

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Recent Publications


From Shore to shore: Kafka’s Gracchus arrives in Riva

Journal Article Oxford German Studies · October 2024 Full text Cite

The Copernican Revolution in the History of Interpretation of Job 28

Journal Article Jewish Studies Quarterly · 2020 While the overwhelming majority of modern scholars assume that the unspecified subject of Job 28:1–11 is human, before the 13th century virtually all exegetes assumed that subject was divine. Thus, there was a major shift in the interpretation of J ... Full text Open Access Cite
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