Biography
Dr. Michelle Levine is a tenured Associate Professor of Bible in the Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, where she teaches courses in Tanach and medieval commentaries. She is also a faculty member of the GPATS Master’s program, Tanach Track. She holds a Master’s degree in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and a PhD degree in medieval biblical exegesis and medieval Jewish history from New York University. Dr. Levine is the author of “Nahmanides on Genesis: The Art of Biblical Portraiture” (Brown University Press, 2009), and she has published numerous articles on topics of Tanach and medieval Jewish exegesis. Dr. Levine lectures widely to Jewish communities in the U.S., Israel, and Canada. She has also been teaching an ongoing weekly adult Tanach series in her Queens, New York, community for the past twenty-four years.