Daniel Sperber

Daniel Sperber (Hebrew: דניאל שפרבר) is a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and an expert in classical philology, history of Jewish customs, Jewish art history, Jewish education and Talmudic studies.
==Biography==
Daniel Sperber was born on November 4, 1940 in Gwrych Castle, Wales. He studied for rabbinical ordination at Yeshivat Kol Torah in Israel, earned a doctorate from University College, London in the departments of Ancient History and Hebrew Studies. He is married to Phyllis (Hannah) Magnus, a couples therapist, originally of Highland Park, Illinois. To know a woman - Haaretz - Israel News One of their daughters, Abigail, is the founder of Bat Kol, a Jewish religious lesbian group. 
==Academic and rabbinical career==
Sperber is the author of Minhagei Yisrael: Origins and History on the character and evolution of Jewish customs. He has written extensively on many issues regarding how Jewish law can and has evolved. This includes a work in which he calls for a greater inclusion of women in certain ritual services. He is currently a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and serves as rabbi of Menachem Zion Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem.
==Awards==
in 1992, Sperber won the Israel Prize, for Jewish studies.
== Published work==
* Minhagei Yisrael: Origins and History. Mossad Harav Kook, 1998-2007, 8 vol..
* Masekhet Derekh erets zuṭa u-Fereḳ ha-shalom (3rd Edition) [in Hebrew]. , 1994. 
* Magic and Folklore in Rabbinic Literature, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1994. ISBN 9652261653
* Great is Peace, Jerusalem, 1979. 
* Roman Palestine 200-400: Money and Prices, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1974; second edition with supplement 1991 . ISBN 9652261475
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* Nautica Talmudica, Bar-Ilan University Press and E.J. Brill, 1986. ISBN 9004082492
* A Commentary on Derech Eretz Zuta Chapters 5-8, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1990. 
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* Essays on Greek and Latin in the Mishna, Talmud and midrashic 1982
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* Nautica in Talmudic Palestine. Mediterranean History Review, vol. 15, 2001
* Paralysis in Contemporary Halakhah? Tradition 36:3 (Fall 2002), 1-13. 
* Tarbut Homrit Be'eretz Yisrael Beyemai Hatalmud (Material Culture in Eretz-Israel during the Talmudic Period), Vol. 2, Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi & Bar Ilan University
* The Path of Halacha, Women Reading the Torah: A Case of Pesika Policy, Rubin Mass, Jerusalem, 2007 (Hebrew)
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== See also ==
* Halakha
* Shira Hadasha
* Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
* List of Israel Prize recipients
==References==
==External sources==
* Sherman Lectures, University of Manchester, 2004
* Sperber, D., "Congregational Dignity and Human Dignity: Women and Public Torah Reading” (pdf) Edah 3:2, 2002
* Bar-Ilan University Talmud Department
* Sperber, D. "'Friendly' Pesaq and the 'Friendly' Poseq" (pdf) Edah 5:2, 2006
* Edah, Daniel Sperber speaker information
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