Curriculum Vitae - Academic & Publishing
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
(Dissertation awarded Distinction) May, 1995
M.B.A., Finance (With Distinction)
New York University Stern School of Business May, 1979
B.A., English Literature (Cum Laude)
Stony Brook University May, 1970
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Manhattan College
Adjunct Faculty in Religious StudiesAdjunct Faculty in Religious Studies
Fall 2015
Academy for Jewish Religion
Member of Faculty in Bible
Fall 2000- Fall 2012
General Theological Seminary [Episcopal]
Visiting Professor
Spring 2007-Spring 2012
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Assistant Professor
Fall 1995-Spring, 2004;
Visiting Professor
Fall 1993-Spring, 1995
Fordham University
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fall 1996-Spring 1997;
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Fall 1995
ADULT EDUCATION TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Osher Institute for Lifelong Learning at American University [OLLI] June, 2023-Present
Skirball Academy at the Streicker Center of Temple Emanuel, 2006-2024
Scholar-in-Residence and lecturer, 1996-Present
ME’AH Program of Boston Hebrew College, 2004
Women’s League Institute, JTS, 2001-2004
92nd Street Y/Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, 1998-2000
The Jewish Museum, New York, 1999; 2011
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Member, Board of Directors, Academy for Jewish Religion 2007-2009
Faculty Committee, Davidson School of Education Fall, 2000-2004
Faculty Committee, Institutional Advancement Fall 2003-2004
Faculty Search Committee, Women’s Studies Chair Fall 2003-Spring 2004
Faculty Search Committee, Philosophy/Jewish Thought Spring, 2000
STUDENT ADVISOR, MENTOR, AND GUIDANCE EXPERIENCE:
Advisor, List College Bible Majors July 1999-2004
Admissions Interviewer, List College of Jewish Studies Fall 1993-2004
Associate Director for Recruitment & Admissions, Graduate School of JTS July 1999-June 2000
Advisor, List College Senior Honors Thesis Seminar Fall 1998-Spring 1999
Sample class, List College Prospective Juniors Weekend Spring 1994-Present
Faculty Mentor, JTS Rabbinical School Fall 1995-Spring 1998
Freshman Advisor, Fordham University/Lincoln Center Fall 1996-Spring 1997
Acting Assistant to the Dean, Graduate School of JTS Spring 1995
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION:
ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Crosscurrents Coolidge Research Fellow July, 2004
JTS Faculty Merit Leave Award Spring, 2002
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellow Academic year, 1994-95
National Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellow Academic year, 1994-95
JTS Graduate School Fellow Academic year, 1992-93
JTS Graduate School Fellow Academic year, 1993-94
Charles B. Revson Foundation Fellow Academic year, 1991-92
Charles B. Revson Foundation Fellow Academic year, 1990-91
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Patterns of Destiny: Narrative Structures of Foundation and Doom in the Hebrew Bible, (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns), 2002.
JPS Commentary on Judges. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society) forthcoming.
Articles:
“The Mystic’s Experience of God: A Comparison of the Mystical Techniques and Experiences of a 13th Century Jewish Mystic and a 20th Century Indic Yogi,” in The Fifty-eighth Century: A Jewish Renewal Sourcebook, ed. Shohama Harris Wiener (Northvale, NJ:Jason Aronson, 1996), 315-30.
“A Biblical Parallel to a Sumerian Temple Hymn? Ezekiel 40-48 and the Cylinders of Gudea.” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, 24 (1997), 1-11.
“The Doom of Paradise: Literary Patterns in Accounts of Paradise and Mortality in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East,” in A Feminist Companion to Genesis, 2, ed. Athalia Brenner, (Sheffield:JSOT, 1998), 53-80.
“Mystic Autobiography: A Case Study in Comparative Literary Analysis” in Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, 2, 1999, 27-52.
“When Fathers Refuse to Eat: The Trope of Rejecting Food and Drink in Biblical Narrative.” Semeia 86 (1999), 135-48.
“Rivalry in Genesis: A New Reading,” Conservative Judaism, 53:4, (summer 2001), 19-34.
“Some Results of a Structural Semiotic Analysis of the Story of Judah and Tamar,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 29:3 (2005), 289-318.
“Echoes of Gideon’s Ephod: An Intertextual Reading,” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, 30 (2006), 89-102.
“Choreography of a Thwarted Rape,” in Bringing the Hidden to Light: The Process of Interpretation, Studies in Honor of Stephen Geller, (Winona Lake, Ind.: JTS/Eisenbrauns, 2007), 249-69.
Entries in The Torah, A Women’s Commentary, (New York:The Women of Reform Judaism URJ Press, 2008),
“Parshat Toledot, Gen 25-28, Another View,” 150;
“Parshat Yitro, Exod 18-20, Another View,” 421; and
“Parshat Shemini, Levit 9-11, Another View,” 630.
"In the Wake of the Goddesses: Theology, the Humanities, and the Education of Seminarians," in In the Wake of Tikva Frymer-Kensky, (Piscataway, NJ: Georgias Press, 2009), 31-42.
The Gideon Cycle and the Deuteronomist’s Critique of Hereditary Monarchy: An Intertextual Perspective, in Ve-ˀEd Yaˁaleh (Gen 2:6): Essays in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Edward L. Greenstein, forthcoming by SBL Press,
Writings from the Ancient World Supplement series (Writings from the Ancient World Supplement Series link))
"Moral and Ethical Values Underlying Structural Patterns of Coercive Acts in Hebrew Bible Narrative", Journal for the
Study of the Old Testament, 48.3 (2024) [https://doi.org/10.1177/03090892231193457].
Book Editor:
Bringing the Hidden to Light: The Process of Interpretation, Studies in Honor of Stephen Geller, ed. Diane M. Sharon and Kathryn Kravitz (Winona Lake, Ind.: JTS/ Eisenbrauns), 2007.
Encyclopedia Entries and Reviews:
Entries in Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, edited by Susannah Heschel and Serinity Young, NY: Macmillan Reference, 1999:
“Eve,” vol.1, 319-20;
“Ishtar & Anat,” 1, 486-7;
“Marriage in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,” 2, 624-27
Entry in Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, ed. Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore (NY: Routledge, 1997), 2, 946-7, s.v. “Yocheved Judith Herschlag Muffs” (also included in the CD-ROM Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia ed. Paula Hyman and Dalia Ofer).
Review of Lesley Hazleton Jezebel, the Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen (NY: Doubleday, 2007), and
Richard E. Rubenstein, Thus Saith the Lord: The Revolutionary Moral Vision of Isaiah and Jeremiah, (NY:
Harcourt, 2006) in Journal of the Academy for Jewish Religion, Vol. 4, Spring 2008.
Review of Lesley Hazleton Jezebel, the Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen (NY: Doubleday, 2007), in Lilith
Magazine, Spring 2008.
Review of Fiona C. Black, ed., The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture, and the Space Between, Review of
Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2007).
“In Memoriam: Tikva Simone Frymer-Kensky, 1943-2006,” Nashim, a Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and
Gender Issues No.13, Spring 5767/2007, 252-261.
Review of Judy Klitsner, Subversive Sequels in the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other,
(JPS, 2009) in Lilith Magazine, Spring 2010.
Review of Lori Hope Lefkovitz, In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities (Rowman & Littlefield,
2010) in Lilith Magazine, Summer 2010.
Popular Contributions:
Entries in The Bible Through the Ages, Robert V. Huber, gen. ed. Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest, 1996:
The Origin of Writing, pp. 32-34
Ancient Near Eastern Archives, pp. 34-35
Descent and Rise of Joseph, pp. 36-38
Hammurabi, pp.47-48
ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
Associate Editor, Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, 1999-2022
Co-Chair, Pentateuch Section, Society of Biblical Literature, 2003-2006
Chair, Columbia University Seminar in Hebrew Bible, 2002-2005
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS:
Society of Biblical Literature (1988-2008)
Steering committee, Pentateuch Section [co-chair 2003-06] (1997-2007)
Steering committee, Post-Structural Research on the Hebrew Bible Group (1996-1998)
Columbia University Hebrew Bible Seminar (since 1996) Chair, 2002-2005
SCHOLARLY LANGUAGES:
Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew; Modern Hebrew; French; German; Akkadian; Sumerian; Biblical and
Talmudic Aramaic; Syriac; Ugaritic and other Canaanite dialects; Latin.
If you would like to contact Dr. Sharon about speaking to your group or teaching at your venue:
