Guggenheim Fellowship
I am pleased to report that I’ve been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (the press release from Brown University can be seen here). The award will allow me to spend the 2008-9 academic year working on my next book project, on Jewish piety in late antiquity. While the parameters of this project change daily (sometimes more than once), my basic goal is to try to tease out how most Jews, who may not have known or cared much for the Rabbis, understood and served their God.
