She is currently a Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies, Yale University. Prof. Noam is a scholar of rabbinic literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. At present she is engaged in two projects: A Literary-Historical Investigation of the Parallel Traditions in Josephus and in Rabbinic Literature (with Prof. Tal Ilan) and investigation of the legal exegesis of the Pentateuch in the Dead Sea Scrolls. She has recently won the Michael Bruno Memorial Award.