Sarit Gribetz Kattan

Sarit Kattan Gribetz joins the FAS as Associate Professor with tenure, with teaching assignments in Religious Studies and Jewish Studies. 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. 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, as well as a series of articles about nighttime in rabbinic sources. She is also 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). Sarit received her BA and PhD 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.