Deborah A. Green 5273 University of Oregon 541-346-5974 Eugene, OR 97403 dagreen@uoregon.edu Education 2003 Ph.D. University of Chicago, Divinity School Soothing Odors: The Transformation of Scent in Ancient Israelite and Ancient Jewish Literature. Director: Michael Fishbane Readers: John J. Collins, Tikva Frymer-Kensky 1997 M.A. University of Chicago (Divinity) 1984 B.A. Brandeis University (English and American Literature) Academic Employment 2010- Greenberg Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature Department of Religious Studies Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies University of Oregon 2003-2010 Greenberg Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Department of Religious Studies and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, University of Oregon 2001-2003 Instructor, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, Illinois 1997-1999 Teaching Assistant, The University of Chicago (the College and the Divinity School) Other Employment 1990-1995 Marketing Director, William M. Mercer, Incorporated 1985-1990 Editor, Quality Assurance Coordinator, and Marketer, TPF&C/Tillinghast 1984-1985 Marketing Assistant, Alltime, Inc. Competitive Awards 2012 Provost s Summer Stipend for Humanities and Creative Arts Faculty 2012 College of Arts and Sciences Summer Stipend for Humanities and Creative Arts Faculty 2011 Summer Research Award University of Oregon 2008 Summer Stipend Grant University of Oregon (Nominated; NEH Summer Stipend) 2006 Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship 2005 Summer Stipend Grant University of Oregon (Nominated; NEH Summer Stipend) Green, D. Page 1 of 7 April 27, 2012
2002-2003 Wabash Fellowship in Pedagogy and the Study of Religion 2002-2003 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture 2001-2002 Junior Fellow Martin Marty Center 2000 Dorot Foundation Travel Grant Combined Caesarea Expeditions 1997 Milo P. Jewett Prize for best paper in Biblical Studies in the Divinity School Renaming 4Q550: Court Tales Other Funding/Awards 2011-2012 Williams Fellowship for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching 2009 Publishing subvention for photos and indices Oregon Humanities Center 2004-2009 Junior Professor Development Award 2004 New Faculty Award 2000-2001 Jr. Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel 1997-2000 Divinity School Fellowship Funded Research Travel 2012 Israel (Provost s Summer Stipend). Field study of ancient gardens at Ramat Raḥel, Herod s Palaces, etc.; field study of urban areas Sepphoris, Beit She an, Tiberias, etc.; Research in the National Library and Rockfeller Museum; meetings with archaeologists from Israel Antiquities Authority. 2004 Israel (by University of Oregon). Field study of burials in Beit She arim; library research National Library and Rockefeller Museum; meetings with archaeologists from Israel Antiquities Authority. 2004 Italy and Tunisia (by International Catacomb Society). Symposium at British School of Archaeology, Rome; team field study of Roman (early Christian) cities and burials in Tunisia; burials in Italy; new dig sites. 2000-2001 Israel (by the Divinity School, University of Chicago and the Dorot Foundation). Volunteer for two weeks at Caesarea expedition; study at the Hartman Institute; independent research at the National Library in Jerusalem. Books - Authored The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011). Books - Edited Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane. Co-edited with Laura Lieber (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Commemorating the Dead: Text and Artifact in Context: Studies of Roman, Jewish, and Christian Burials. Co-edited with Laurie Brink, O.P. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008). Green, D. Page 2 of 7 April 27, 2012
Articles and Book Chapters Sweet Spices in the Tomb: An Initial Study on the Use of Perfume in Jewish Burials in Commemorating the Dead: Text and Artifact in Context. Edited by Laurie Brink, O.P. and Deborah Green (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), p. 145-173. With Laura Lieber, Introduction, in Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane. Co-edited with Laura Lieber (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 1-9. With John J. Collins, The Tales from the Persian Court (4Q550 a-e ), Antikes Judentum und Frühes Christentum: Festschrift für Hartmut Stegemann zum 65. Geburtstag. Edited by Bernd Kollman, Wolfgang Reinbold and Annette Steudel (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999), p. 39-52. Invited Contributions Incense and Anointing in The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. Edited by Judith Baskin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) 4Q550 (Proto-Esther), Dictionary of Early Judaism. Edited by John J. Collins and Daniel Harlow (Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010). Torah Portion Miketz: Post-Biblical Exegesis and Torah Portion Devarim: Post- Biblical Exegesis, WRJ Women s Commentary on the Torah. Edited by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi (New York: Women of Reform Judaism/Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, 2007), p. 252-253; 1056-1057 Invited Reviews Lieve Teugels, Bible and Midrash: The Story of The Wooing of Rebekah, (Leuven: Peeters, 2004) in Review of Biblical Literature, September (2006). Rachel Adler, Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics, (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1998) in Journal of Religion, 79, 4, (1999), p. 685-86. Invited Papers and Talks 2012 No Way Out: Chastity and Chastisement in God s Garden Duke University 2011 Review of Rivka Ulmer, Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash Midrash Section 2011 The Sensuous Garden: Eden and the Senses in Rabbinic Midrash Watch Out for the Snake!: Eve Esther, and Susanna in the Garden The Aroma of Righteousness: Why Olfaction is Important University of Virginia Green, D. Page 3 of 7 April 27, 2012
2011 Eden and Imagination Colloquium Department of Geography 2010 The Aroma of Righteousness Response to Panel Review of the Monograph Sensory Perception in the Bible and Early Judaism and Christianity Consultation 2010 Of Perfume and Incense and Other Smelly Stuff: Methods of Reading Text and Artifact Colloquium, Department of Anthropology University of Oregon 2009 The Scent of a Woman: Rabbinic Attitudes toward Women s Aromatic Practices Women in the Religious and Intellectual Activity of the Ancient Mediterranean World: An Interdisciplinary and International Conference in Honor of Adela Yarbro Collins Ohio State University & Methodist Theological School 2008 Aroma and the Rabbinic Agenda: The Influence of Biblical Texts and Daily Life on Rabbinic Literature Duke University 2006 Paper on Susan Ashbrook Harvey s Scenting Salvation Byzantine Studies Annual Conference 2006 Legislating Scent: Rabbinic Attitudes toward Death, Dining, and Dry Cleaning Senses of Religion Conference Yale University 2006 Commemorating the Dead Panel Discussion for the International Catacomb Society Project 2005 Sweet Spices in the Tomb Commemorating the Dead Conference University of Chicago 2005 Comparing Jewish and Christian Martyrdom Narratives Jewish Studies Workshop University of Chicago Green, D. Page 4 of 7 April 27, 2012
2004 Jewish Burials in the Late Roman Period: A Comparison of Material and Textual Evidence Symposium for Commemorating the Dead British School of Archaeology Rome, Italy 2004 The Power of the Martyr in Rabbinic Midrash University of Oregon Symposium Martyrdom: Witnessing to Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 1997 From Covenant to Contract, From Contract to Covenant: Transformations in Jewish Marriage from the Renaissance to the Present Newberry Library Panel on Gender and Judaism, Chicago, Illinois Conference Papers 2011 The Garden of Eden: A Sensual Study in Rabbinic Midrash 2010 The Garden of Eden and the Garden of the Songs: Thematic Elision, Allusion, and Assimilation in Rabbinic Midrash Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting 2005 The Evidence of Spices in Jewish Burials 2004 Subjective Objectivity: Picking and Choosing from Material Culture 2003 Abraham, the Midrashic Martyr Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting 2003 One Sense in Search of a Method 2002 Perfume and the Rabbinic Agenda WECSOR Annual Meeting, Association for Jewish Studies Section, Moraga, California Community Talks and Courses 2012 Ancient Jewish Women and their Aromatic Practices (Or, They Can't All be Witches, Can They?) Sisterhood, Temple Beth Israel, Eugene, OR 2011 Shema Yisrael: What Are We Witnessing? Global Day of Jewish Learning Green, D. Page 5 of 7 April 27, 2012
Jewish Community, Eugene OR 2011 Everything Is A Present: Screening and Discussion Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies in Cooperation with the Eugene Symphony Counterpoint Series and Temple Beth Israel 2011 Course: Women in the Bible Continuing Education Insight Seminar, University of Oregon 2010 Prayer Global Day of Jewish Learning Jewish Community, Eugene OR 2010 Bible, Bath, and Beyond: How Incense Becomes Sacrifice and Sacrifice Becomes Perfume in Ancient Jewish Literature Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 2010 Tikkun Leil, Study Session, Shavuoth Passages from Pesikta De Rab Kahana on Shavuoth Temple Beth Israel 2010 Ancient Rites and Rituals of Burial Temple Beth Israel 2010 Interpretation: Rashi on Beha alotecha Adult B nei Mitzvah Class Temple Beth Israel 2010 D rash Hillel Foundation, University of Oregon 2009 Course: Genesis Continuing Education Insight Seminar, University of Oregon 2009 The History of the Seder Bean Dormitory Complex, University of Oregon Student Housing 2008, 2009 D var Hillel Foundation, University of Oregon 2007 Martyrdom Student Inter-religious Dialogue Group, University of Oregon 2006 Lecture: Women and Spices in the Talmud Women s Group, Temple Beth Israel Green, D. Page 6 of 7 April 27, 2012
2006 Panel Discussion: The Da Vinci Code Community Conversations - Hamilton Dormitory Student Think Tank University of Oregon 2006 Discussion: Song of Songs, Wisdom of Israel Series Continuing Education Insight Seminar, University of Oregon 2005 Course: Reading Maccabees Temple Beth Israel 2005 Lecture: Esther Or HaGan Congregation 2004 Panel Member: Faith and its Role in Higher Education: Christians, Muslims, Jews in Dialogue First Annual Faculty Forum, Newman Center, St. Thomas More Parish 2004 Lecture: Judging Israel by the Treatment of Its Women: Three Female Characters in the Book of Judges, Temple Beth Israel Service University and Academia Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies 2011 World Language Academy Committee Member 2010- Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies 2010- Roundtable Club of Eugene 2010 Search Committee modern Hebrew instructor 2010 Planning Committee 10 th Anniversary Celebration (Dinner and Daylong Symposium) 2009, 10, 12 Search Committee Interim Replacement for Medieval and Early Modern Judaic Studies position 2007- Student Advising: Majors and Minors 2003- Executive Committee Judaic Studies 2003- Development: Activities include dinners and meetings with donors 2007 - Organization of Lectures by Visiting Scholars 2003- Affiliate of Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon Department of Religious Studies (2012) Graduation Welcome for Humanities Consortium 2011 Guest Lecturer FHS 408 Spirituality & Human Services 2009-2010 Search Committee Arabist position 2006- Hiring Committee for Graduate Teaching Fellows (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012) 2008 Graduation Speech for Humanities Consortium Green, D. Page 7 of 7 April 27, 2012
2005 Planning and Participant in University of Oregon Symposium on Martyrdom: Witnessing to Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Academic Field 2010-2012 SBL Women Members Breakfast Co-Coordinator for annual breakfast 2009 Threading the Tenure Needle, Coordinated all aspects of panel interview and discussion at 2009- Society of Biblical Literature: Sensory Experience in the Bible Consultation Steering Committee 2007- Society of Biblical Literature: Committee for the Status of Women in the Profession 2004-2010 Society of Biblical Literature Steering Committee: Archaeological Excavations and Discoveries Section Courses Taught Biblical Hebrew: HBRW 111 (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011) HBRW 112 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012) HBRW 113 (2004, 2005, 2007, 2009) HBRW 311 (2003, 2004, 2007, 2009): 1 Samuel, Judges HBRW 312 (2007, 2009, 2011): Psalms, Hosea, Amos, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Job, Song of Songs HBRW 313 (2010, 2011): Rabbinic Literature: Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, Genesis Rabbah, Song of Songs Rabbah HBRW 605 (2011): Genesis Introduction to the Bible: REL 222 (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) Martyrdom in the Three Abrahamic Traditions: REL 399, 418 (2004, 2007) Honors Theses Supervised: 2010 Matthew Leasure (Clark Honor s College Distinction) 2005 Austin Munsell 2005 Jessie Oettinger 2004 Ryan Stoner (Committee Member Reader) Dissertation Committees, Outside Reader: 2011 Aaron Greer, Anthropology: Imagined Futures: Interpretation, Imagination, and Discipline in Hindu Trinidad Languages Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Attic Greek, Modern Hebrew, French, German Green, D. Page 8 of 7 April 27, 2012
Professional Societies American Academy of Religion Society of Biblical Literature Association for Jewish Studies Archaeological Institute of America American Schools of Oriental Research Green, D. Page 9 of 7 April 27, 2012