Michael Fishbane is Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies at the
University of Chicago, and Chair of the Committee on Jewish Studies. Professor
Fishbane is the author of 16 books and hundreds of articles and reviews
in scholarly journals and encyclopedias. Among his works are Biblical
Interpretation in Ancient Israel; Garments of Torah Essays in Biblical
Hermeneutics; The Kiss of God; and Spiritual Death and Dying
in Judaism. Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel and The
Kiss of God both won the National Jewish Book Award (1985, 1994) among
other prizes. Michael Fishbane is Editor-in-Chief of The Jewish Publication
Society Bible Commentary (for Prophets and Writings), and on the editorial
board of several scholarly journals and book series. His commentary on
the Haftarot (Prophetic Lections) will appear shortly. Recipient
of many scholarly awards, Fishbane has been a Guggenheim Fellow and twice
a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University.
He is also an elected member of the American Academy for Jewish Research.
Dr. Fishbane received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University where he taught
for 20 years before coming to Chicago. He has also been a visiting Professor
at Harvard, Stanford, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Fishbane's
most recent book is The Exegetical Imagination, Jewish Thought and
Theology (Harvard University Press, 1998). He is married to Dr. Mona
DeKoven Fishbane, a clinical psychologist in private practice, and they
have two sons, Eitan and Elisha.
