Yael Fisch is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Literature, a scholar of rabbinic literature. A graduate of the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature and the Jewish Philosophy and Talmud Department at Tel Aviv University, she completed her Ph.D. at the School of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University. Held fellowships at the Centre for the Study of the Bible at Oriel College, University of Oxford, and the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University.
Her areas of research and teaching include methods of reading and interpretation, poetics and narratology in Second Temple and rabbinic literature. Her book 'Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash' (2022) is dedicated to scriptural interpretation in Paul’s letters and how they contribute to our understanding of midrashic hermeneutics and vice versa. The book explores questions of interpretative rhetoric, hermeneutical technê, conceptualizations of text and ideal readership. Other publications offer historical and cultural analysis of Second Temple narratives and their reworking in rabbinic literature. Her current research project, 'Measuring the Temple: Ekphrasis and Mishnah Middot', is dedicated to questions of poetics, rhetoric, and fiction in the Tannaitic Jerusalem Temple.