He received his B.A. and M.A. from Yeshiva University and his Ph.D. from New York University in 1972, supervised by Baruch Levine and Moshe Goshen-Gottstein. He is the author of The Bible in Rabbinic Interpretation, Bar-Ilan Press, 2003 (Heb.), together with Menachem Ben-Yashar and Jordan S. Penkower, and Order in the Bible, Magnes Hebrew U. Press/Bar-Ilan U. Press, 2009 (Heb.). He is currently researching relations between Christian and Jewish Bible interpretation in the 12th century. 02/15/2015