Marc Bregman
Marc Bregman was born and raised in St. Louis. He received his B.A. in Judaic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968, his M.A. from the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles in 1971, and his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. Since 1978, he has been teaching at the Jerusalem campus of the Hebrew Union College. He has also taught Biblical Interpretation and Ancient Jewish Thought at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was the Horace W. Goldsmith Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he served as the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During the spring semester of 2005, Bregman was the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies. During the fall semester of 2005, Bregman was awarded the Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship, at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Bregman has published academic research and belles lettres, in Hebrew and in English, on a wide variety of topics in both scholarly and popular journals, including an introduction and thematic commentary to a novelistic retelling of the famous talmudic legend of The Four Who Entered Paradise (Jason Aronson, 1995). His recent book in Hebrew, The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003), has been hailed as "undoubtedly the best research ever done about the most complicated issue in the study of rabbinic literature".