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Dov Weiss is an Associate Professor specializing in Jewish Studies and is a Conrad Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2011 as a Martin Meyer Fellow. In 2012, he was an Alan M. Stock Fellow at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies. Dov's academic research focuses on rabbinic theology and rabbinic biblical interpretation. His notable work, 'Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism,' published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, won the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in the scholarship category. His interests also encompass the Hebrew Bible, Temple Judaism, Medieval Jewish Mysticism, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, and Modern Jewish Thought. Dov has received several awards including the NEH Summer Stipend for his project 'Rabbinic Inferno: Hell in Classical Judaism' in 2020 and the National Jewish Book Council's 'Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award' for Scholarship in 2017. He holds an MA in Modern Jewish History and a BA in Political Science from Yeshiva University.
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