Steven D. Fraade, scholar

Steven D. Fraade () is an American scholar, at Yale University.

Biography

Steven D. Fraade earned his PhD (1980) in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

He is now the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism at Yale University, in the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Enosh and His Generation (1984 Fraade), book

• Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages (2011 Fraade), book

• The Damascus Document (2021 Fraade), book

Edited volumes

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