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Name Sara Ronis
Position Associate Professor
Institutional Affiliation St. Mary's University, San Antonio
Latitude 29.452459
Longitude -98.563626
Research Interests

Rabbinic literature, Babylonian Talmud, Sasanian Babylonia, Demonology, Gender and Sex in Late Antiquity, Late Antiquity, Cultural Interaction in Late Antiquity, Judaism, early Christianity, and the religions of Late Antique Iran, non-normative rituals, rabbinic hermeneutics and jurisprudence.

Websites https://www.stmarytx.edu/academics/faculty/sara-ronis/; https://sararonis.com/; http://stmarytx.academia.edu/SaraRonis
Publications

Forthcoming “Space, Place, and the Race for Power: Rabbis, Demons, and the
Construction of Babylonia,” in Harvard Theological Review.
“A Demonic Servant in Rav Papa's Household: Demons as Subjects in
the Mesopotamian Talmud,” in the Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and its
Cultural World, edited by Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey Rubenstein (RI:
Brown Judaic Studies).
In Preparation “A Seven-Headed Demon in the House of Study: Understanding a
Rabbinic Demon in Light of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Babylonian
Textual Traditions.”

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