James Adam Redfield

[from Saint Louis University website]
My main research areas are classical rabbinic hermeneutics and anthropology, grounded in wider interests in philosophy, comparative literature, and the history of the human sciences. I have written a monograph in the former area (Adventures of Rabbah & Friends, 2025) and a dissertation on the latter (Stanford 2017), as well as articles and other studies. My second monograph, very loosely related to my dissertation, is tentatively titled Children of Prophets: Jewish Customs and Early Rabbinic Law. I have also published the edited volume Talmud /and/ Philosophy with Sergey Dolgopolski (2024) and done extensive work as a translator of Jewish literature from French, German, Modern Hebrew, and Yiddish, including a translation of Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky's Yiddish stories (From a Distant Relation, 2021).