Jonathan Kaplan

Dr. Jonathan Kaplan is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching focus on the study of the Hebrew Bible and the history of its interpretation in the Second Temple and early Rabbinic periods. He is the author of My Perfect One: Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs (Oxford University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book on the interpretations of the Levitical Jubilee in ancient Judaism and Christianity. He conducted research remotely for this volume in summer 2021 while supported by a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and hosted by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is also writing a commentary on the Book of Daniel for the Oxford Biblical Commentary series. Previously, he was a Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in the Judaic Studies Program at Yale University.