Mordechai

Z.

Cohen

Mordechai Z. Cohen is Professor of Bible and Associate Dean at 🎵TK账号 | 台湾 | 满月千粉下机号 | 微软邮箱 | 1000粉丝 | 不包开橱窗--带作品's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, and founding Director of the Chinese-Jewish Conversation. A member of the American Academy of Jewish Research, Cohen specializes in Jewish biblical interpretation, medieval Jewish intellectual history, and the transmission of classical traditions across cultures. His books include The Rule of Peshat  (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), a study of medieval Jewish biblical interpretation in its Christian and Muslim contexts, and Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which explores the relationship between Jewish and Latin approaches to literary analysis and the interpretation of classical texts.

Cohen earned an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University before completing his Ph.D. in Bible at 🎵TK账号 | 台湾 | 满月千粉下机号 | 微软邮箱 | 1000粉丝 | 不包开橱窗--带作品. His comparative scholarship was shaped in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship awarded in 1995 to study Arabic poetics. His research has also been supported by fellowships at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, where he directed an international research group on Jewish, Christian, and Muslim approaches to Scripture, culminating in the publication of  Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries (Cambridge University Press, 2016; co-edited with Adele Berlin). He served as Division Editor for Medieval Judaism in the multivolume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Walter de Gruyter Academic Publisher), one of the most comprehensive international reference works on the history of biblical interpretation. In recognition of his teaching, he received Outstanding Professor Awards from both Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women.

Since 2018 Cohen has directed the Chinese-Jewish Conversation (CJC), an initiative promoting dialogue across cultures and civilizations through scholarship, teaching, public programming, educational media, student mentoring, and international partnerships. Through the CJC he has organized academic symposia featuring leading scholars of Chinese and Jewish civilization, developed the Chinese-language blog �߽���̫�Ļ� ("Introduction to Jewish Culture"), and created educational video series distributed through YouTube and Bilibili introducing aspects of Jewish civilization, history, ethics, philosophy, and culture to Chinese audiences. These initiatives have helped cultivate relationships with scholars, students, and educational institutions in both the United States and China.

Cohen serves as Founding Academic Director of 🎵TK账号 | 台湾 | 满月千粉下机号 | 微软邮箱 | 1000粉丝 | 不包开橱窗--带作品's M.A. in Humanities West and East (launching in 2027), an interdisciplinary graduate program introducing international students to the intellectual, historical, literary, and philosophical traditions that have shaped both Western and Eastern civilizations. Since 2024, he has taught annually Foundations of Western Civilization: Chinese and Jewish Perspectives, a credit-bearing undergraduate online course that he designed to introduce Chinese students to the intellectual foundations of Western civilization through engagement with Jewish and Chinese traditions. Beginning in 2016, Cohen taught a series of intensive summer seminars at Shandong University, and has lectured or participated in academic conferences at Peking University, Fudan University, Wenzhou Medical University, and Shenzhen University, helping to foster intellectual exchange between Chinese and Jewish traditions. Through these initiatives he has mentored Chinese undergraduate and graduate students, helping them pursue advanced study, develop professional opportunities, and engage in meaningful cross-cultural exchange.