Hanan Mazeh is a scholar of late-antique Rabbinic Literature. His research explores textual and thematic developments in this corpus as a key to understanding Rabbinic society in the first centuries CE within its cultural context. His particular expertise is the Palestinian Talmud (the Yerushalmi) and its unique texture, and he is especially interested in questions of territory and relations between Jews and Gentiles in Roman Palestine. Mazeh completed his PhD in Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2020. He has been a postdoctoral fellow in a collaborative project by the Chronoi-Einstein Center in Berlin and the Hebrew University (2020) as well as at Ben-Gurion University (2020-21), and a research fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2021-22), as a Rothschild and Fulbright awardee, and at the New York University School of Law (2022-23). His project at the Mandel Scholion Center examines the paradigm shift in the organization of knowledge and legal discourse within the rabbinic academy in third- and fourth-century Roman Palestine, as reflected in the Palestinian Talmud. Its particular focus is on textual transfers, internal adaptations and cross references taking place in the early stages of this text’s formation.

Selected publications:

Mazeh, Hanan. “Gentile Land Ownership in the Land of Israel: The Palestinian Talmud in Light of Biblical Models and Roman Law”, The Jewish Quarterly Review 114.2 (2024), 179–210.

Mazeh, Hanan. “Legal Codes and ‘Dead’ Texts: The Talmud Yerushalmi’s View of the Mishnah,” Worlds of Jewish Law: Premodern Legal Cultures in the Making, eds. N. B. Dohrmann, M. Herman and M. Perry (Jewish Culture and Contexts Series, University of Pennsylvania Press).

מזא"ה, חנן. 'בין משנה לברייתא: קובצי הברייתות והתפתחות סוגיות התלמוד הירושלמי', סידרא לו (תשפ"ד).