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Dr. Naphtali Meshel serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Comparative Religion and Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also earned his Ph.D. His academic work bridges religious studies and biblical scholarship with specialized focus on ritual systems.
Meshel's research centers on ancient Israelite religious practices, particularly sacrificial systems and biblical narratives. His work employs generativist approaches to analyze ritual structures and explores subversive readings of biblical characters. He combines expertise in Hebrew Bible with cross-cultural insights from Sanskrit literature on ritual gained during post-doctoral studies in India.
His publications reveal consistent engagement with textual inconsistencies in sacrificial laws and narrative ambiguities in biblical accounts. Meshel's scholarship demonstrates particular interest in how ritual functions within ancient religious frameworks and how narratives construct divine-human relationships.
Meshel has authored the monograph The "Grammar" of Sacrifice: A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System (Oxford University Press) alongside significant journal articles examining biblical texts through comparative ritual lenses. His work contributes to ongoing scholarly conversations about purity systems and narrative interpretation in ancient religious contexts.
