title: Words of Gad the Seer: Words of Gad the Seer
author: Meir Bar-Ilan Ph.D.
description: Meir Bar-Ilan (born: NY 1951), is a professor of Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, from 1981. He was educated at Bar-Ilan University (B.A. cum laude, 1979; Ph.D. 1983), at the Hebrew University (post doc, 1983) and at Harvard University (post doc, 1989). Bar-Ilan specializes in the Jewish literature and people in Antiquity (Bible and Talmud), and teaches on various subjects. He published more than 100 learned papers and few books. He taught at the Vienna University (guest professor, 2001), and was the head of the Talmud department at Bar-Ilan University (2008-9). Bar-Ilan has a deep Jewish education on the one hand and a strong academic training on the other. His researches are related to: Bible, Pseudepigrapha, Talmud, Jewish liturgy, Jewish Society in Antiquity (women, demography, infant mortality, childhood, age at marriage) literacy, Mystics, Magic, Medicine, Astronomy, Jewish Calendar, Astrology, Mathematics, Numerology and more. Bar-Ilans most recent publications: A Book: Astrology and Other Sciences among the Jews of Palestine in the Hellenistic-Roman and Byzantine Periods, Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2010 (Hebrew). Papers: * The Improvements in Nutrition during the Second Commonwealth, Moreshet Israel, 6 (2009), pp. 31-50 (Hebrew). * A Woman who Gives Seed: Biology and Physiology in Antiquity, Moed, 19 (2009), pp. 12-34 (Hebrew). * The Voice of Women: From Near and Afar, Sh. Yona (ed.), Or Le-Mayer: Studies in Bible, Semitic Languages, Rabbinic Literature and Ancient Civilizations, Presented to Mayer Gruber, Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2010, pp. 33-86 (Hebrew). * Polemics between Sages and Priests Towards the End of the Days of the Second Temple, Moreshet Israel, 8 (2011), pp. 37-53 (Hebrew). * Non-Canonical Psalms from the Genizah, Armin Lange, Emanuel Tov, and Matthias Weigold, in association with Bennie Reynolds (eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls in Context: Integrating the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Study of Ancient Texts, Languages, and Cultures, VTSup, Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp. 693-718. Papers relevant Into the Skin conference: * Magic Seals on the Body among Jews in the First Centuries C.E., Tarbiz, 57 (1988), pp. 37-50 (Hebrew). * So shall they put My name upon the people of Israel (Num 6:27), HUCA, 60 (1990), pp. 19-31 (Hebrew). Bar-Ilan got wounded at war (Lebanon, 1982). Bar-Ilan is married and has 5 children and 6 grandchildren. http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/
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  aout kehai….
   
  KHAI QUAL GHOT
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