# Gail Labovitz

Gail Labovitz is Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the American Jewish University, where she teaches for the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. She is the author of *Marriage and Metaphor: Constructions of Gender in Rabbinic Literature* (Lexington Books, 2009) and the forthcoming volume on tractate *Moed Qatan* for the Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud, as well as numerous articles, chapters, and reviews. Her areas of academic interest include rabbinic literature, Jewish law, and gender theory.



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## [Judith Hauptman](/encyclopedia/article/hauptman-judith)

The first woman to receive a PhD in Talmud, Judith Hauptman has made significant contributions to the academic study of the origins and development of the works of the “canon” of rabbinic literature of Late Antiquity. A second prominent focus of both Hauptman’s scholarly and other work has been Jewish feminism and the status of women in rabbinic and related literature, particularly exemplified in her best-known work, *Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman’s Voice.*