Dr. Hanan Mazeh has begun a faculty position in the Talmud Department at the Mendel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mazeh is a scholar of late antique Rabbinic Literature. His research explores textual and thematic developments in this corpus as a key to understanding Rabbinic society in the first centuries CE within its cultural context. His particular focus is the Palestinian Talmud, and he is especially interested in questions of territory and relations between Jews and Gentiles in Roman Palestine. Mazeh completed his PhD in Jewish History at Ben Gurion University of the Negev with a dissertation titled “Tractate ‘Demai’ of the Palestinian Talmud: Halakha, Interpretation, and Social Dynamics during the Amoraic Period.” As well as being a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow in 2021 at the University of Pennsylvania, he was a Rothschild postdoctoral fellow, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of History at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and a postdoctoral fellow in a collaborative project conducted by the Einstein Center Chronoi in Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.