Sarit Kattan Gribetz

Sarit Kattan Gribetz is Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department. Her areas of research and teaching include ancient Judaism and rabbinic literature, the study of time, the history of Jerusalem, interreligious polemics, and gender and sexuality.

Her first book, Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton University Press, 2020) received a National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship and a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. She is currently writing two books, A Queen in Jerusalem: Helena of Adiabene through the Ages and Jerusalem: A Feminist History, both under contract at Princeton University Press. She is also working on discourses of nighttime in rabbinic literature and in the ancient world. She is the co-editor of Time: A Multidisciplinary Introduction (2023); Genesis Rabbah in Text and Context (2016); and Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity (2013). Her articles can be found here and her pedagogical essays here.

Sarit received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University’s Department of Religion. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she spent a decade at Fordham University, where she served as Associate Professor of Classical Judaism in the Theology Department and Co-Director of Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies.