Ron started following the work of Anthony Grafton, Princeton University, History.
Ron started following the work of Daniel Barbu, University of Geneva, Sciences de l'antiquité.
Ron started following the work of Ora Limor, The Open University of Israel, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies.
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Faculty Member, UMR 8584, Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes
About
I am working on the spiritual aspects of rabbinic literature, examining the figure of the late antique rabbi as a spiritual master.
In my PhD dissertation I offered a phenomenological analysis of the talmudic ethics of the self, comparing it to both philosophical and Christian discourses on the self from the same period. A book based on the dissertation will be published in May 2011 (Les antiphilosophes: pratiques de soi et rapport à la loi dans la littérature rabbinique classique. Paris, Armand Colin, 2011).
My two current research interests are:
1. The propagation of the rabbinic way of life in the Jewish world of Late Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
2. I continue to examine the philosophical implications of my analysis of the rabbinic conception of the relationship between the individual and the Law.
I also participate in the research project "Teaching Ethics in Late Antiquity" at the EDRIS center of the University of Göttingen.
