Steven Fine is the Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and director of the YU Center for Israel Studies.
Steven Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, director of the YU Center for Israel Studies and the YU Israelite Samaritans Project. A cultural historian of ancient Judaism, Fine’s books include The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard University Press, 2016), Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology (Cambridge, 2005, second edition 2010) received the 2009 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies. Fine is a founding editor of IMAGES: A Journal for the Study of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. His exhibition catalog book, The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome and Back appeared 2021 and The Samaritans: A Biblical People appeared in 2022, both published by Brill. Professor Fine’s newest book project is entitled Titus’ Gnat: The Insect that Saved Judaism. A Cultural History.
Steven Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and director of the YU Center for Israel Studies. A cultural historian of Judaism in Roman antiquity, Fine’s Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World (Oxford, 1997) received the Philip Johnson Award of the Society of Architectural Historians. His Jews, Christians and Polytheists: Cultural Interaction During the Greco-Roman Period (Routledge, 1999) was finalist for the Charles H. Revson Foundation Award in Jewish-Christian Relations of the National Jewish Book Council.
Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology (Cambridge, 2005, 2nd ed. 2010) was awarded the 2009 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies. Fine’s other books include: This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period (Notre Dame, 1997), Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World (Brill, 2014), The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard, 2016), The Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome— and Back (Brill, 2021) and The Samaritans: A Biblical People (Brill, 2022)
Steven Fine is a founding editor of IMAGES: A Journal for the Study of Jewish Art and Visual Culture and of HOREB: Studies in Rabbinic Culture. He received the Samaritan Medal for Peace and Human Achievement in 2013.