Dov Yehuda Weiss

Department of Religion
3092D Foreign Language Building
707 South Mathews
Urbana, Illinois 61801

Dov Weiss is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and a Conrad Humanities Scholar (21-26) in the Departments of Religion, Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School as a Martin Meyer Fellow in 2011 and was the Alan M. Stock Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies in 2012. Specializing in rabbinic theology and rabbinic biblical interpretation, Dov’s first book, Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism (University of Pennsylvania Press), won the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Scholarship. 

Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Rabbinic Theology and Rabbinic Biblical Interpretation, Medieval Jewish Mysticism, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Thought

Ph.D. (with distinction) in History of Judaism, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2011
M.A. (Modern Jewish History) Yeshiva University, 1999
B.A. (Political Science) Yeshiva University, 1995

REL 110: World Religions

REL 120: History of Judaism

REL 283 Jewish Sacred Literature

REL 344: Jewish Intellectual History: Encounters with Christianity and Islam

REL 416: Readings in Rabbinic Midrash

REL 418 Afterlife in Ancient Judaism

REL 419: Jesus and Judaism

REL 442: History of Early Judaism

REL 515: History of Jewish Theology

Conrad Humanities Scholar, University of Illinois (2021-2026)

Associate, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois (2020-2021)

NEH Summer Stipend for Rabbinic Inferno: Hell in Classical Judaism (2020)

National Jewish Book Council's “Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award” in Scholarship (2017)  

Harry Starr Fellow, Harvard University (2012)  

Martin Marty Fellow, University of Chicago Divinity School (2010-2011)