Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Undergraduate Faculty Head Advisor Ph.D., Princeton University (2009) Office: 906 Sproul Email: mvidas@ucdavis.edu

Research Interests

• Religion in late antiquity
• Rabbinics
• Hekhalot literature
• Thematic: Literary culture, authorship, views of the past

Recent Projects

Late Ancient Knowing: A New Intellectual History, with Catherine Chin
Caesarean Revisions and Talmudic Pre-History

Courses Taught

• RST 1B: Death and Afterlife
• RST 126: Rabbinic Literature
• RST 130: Topic: "Sex in Ancient Judaism and Christianity"
• RST 190: Topic: "Apocalyptic Literature"