Philip D. Stern

Philip Stern studied at Princeton, Hebrew University and graduated as a Jewish Studies major from the University of Pennsylvania, finishing magna cum laude. He then went on to study with renowned scholar, Baruch A. Levine at NYU, who mentored his doctorate on the Biblical Herem. The published edition is a revision of the doctoral dissertation, and is in a real sense a book. Philip Stern has also contributed to other books, as co-translator in the "Haftarah Commentary" (UAHC Press, 1996), and as philological editor of the Book of Genesis in the revised version of "The Torah: A Modern Commentary" (URJ Press, 2005). He has also contributed many times to scholarly and popular journals and magazines, especially to Midstream: A Jewish Review.