Eliyahu Rosenfeld/ Ben Gurion University

Eliyahu Rosenfeld is a Ph.D. Student in the department of literature at Ben Gurion University. He wrote his

thesis on the function of silence in discussions concerning virginity claims in the Babylonian Talmud. His current research deals with the poetics of Halachic Sugyot in Babylonian Talmud focusing on the role of the narrator and the intended reader.