Aslan Cohen Mizrahi, Postdoctoral Associate
Aslan Cohen Mizrahi is Perilman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University. Born and raised in Mexico City, Aslan earned a BA in Economics from ITAM and a BA in Philosophy from UNAM. In 2014, Aslan moved to Chicago to pursue an MA in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago, where he later received a PhD in Hebrew Bible (2024). His interests range from the narrative voicing in the Pentateuchal Priestly History to the uses of biblical texts in the wake of the Holocaust. He lives in Durham with his wife and two children.
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- Office Hours:
- Mon/Wed 1:00 p.m. — 2:45 p.m.; Gray Building, 230D (Center for Jewish Studies).
- Keywords:
- Allegory • Bible stories, Hebrew • Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish • Discourse Analysis, Narrative • Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) in literature • P document (Biblical criticism) • Sovereignty in literature