Aharon Shemesh (1953-2018), scholar

Aharon Shemesh (1953-2018) was an Israeli scholar, at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

A professor in the Talmud Department at Bar-Ilan University and a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the author of Punishments and Sins: From Scripture to the Rabbis (2003) and many articles on the development of Jewish law in the Talmud and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• `Onashim ve-hataim: min ha-Mikra le-sifrut Hazal <Punishments and Sins: From Scripture to the Rabbis> (Jerusalem 2003)

Edited volumes

• Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2006 Fraade/Shemesh/Clements), edited volume