Leora F. Batnitzky

Princeton University

Leora F. Batnitzky is Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the director of Princeton's Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought. Her teaching and research interests include philosophy of religion, modern Jewish thought, hermeneutics, and contemporary legal and political theory. In 2002 she received Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (Princeton University Press, 2000) and Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (Cambridge University Press, 2006) as well as the editor of the forthcoming Martin Buber: Schriften zur Philosophie und Religion and co-editor of the journal Jewish Studies Quarterly. She is currently completing two books, one tentatively titled Modern Jewish Thought and the Invention of the Jewish Religion, the other Jewish Legal Theory. She is also at work on a long term project on the conceptual and historical relations between modern religious thought (Jewish and Christian) and modern legal theory (analytic and Continental).