He has published one book, Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud (Brown University Press, 2010), as well as articles appearing in AJS Review, Dine Israel, Encyclopedia Judaica, and Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. He is also a rabbinics reviewer for The Lost Bible Project: The Library of Israel in Late Antiquity, to be published by JPS, and a contributor to the forthcoming New Oxford Annotated Translation of the Mishnah. An ordained rabbi, Richard is the founding director of Merkaz Moreshet Yisrael, which produces teachers guides for high school Jewish studies. Richard's next book project will analyze Talmudic dialectic and argumentation in the context of the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition.