David J. HalperinDavid J. Halperin is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He trained in Semitic languages at Cornell University, in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, and in rabbinic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1977. From 1976 through 2000 he taught the history of Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was repeatedly recognized for excellence in undergraduate teaching. He is the author of The 'Merkabah in Rabbinic Literature' (1980), 'The Faces of the Chariot: Early Jewish Responses to Ezekiel’s Vision' (1988), 'Seeking Ezekiel: Text and Psychology' (1993), and 'Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings' (2001). Read More Read Less