Naama Zahavi-Ely

Artistic and General Director, Opera in Williamsburg Virginia, 2012-present see https://www.operainwilliamsburg.org
Retired faculty, College of William and Mary, Department of Classical Studies
Now living in Tel Aviv, Israel
nxzaha@wm.edu
(USA) 757-544-9461  (Israel) 052-611-9540
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
תמר בעיני לוציוס, או בין ספר שמואל לחמור הזהב Tamar through Lucius' eyes, World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 2013
"Flower," "grass," "harvest and harvesting" "flora" in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Berlin,  Boston:  de  Gruyter), various dates 
‘“Turn Right or Left”: Literary Use of Dialect in 2 Samuel 14:19?’ Hebrew Studies, 2012.
“Jeremiah and ‘I’/’we’ and Jeremiah:  the poetics of changing speakers in the book of Jeremiah as a whole,” SBL 2012
“Identity and Empathy:  Large-Scale Trajectories in the Book of Jeremiah and the Effects of Changing Speakers,”  SBL 2011
“Who is afraid of the weak verb?” SBL 2011
“Hebrew Royal Laments in 17th and 18th Century England,” SBL 2010, with Mayer Gruber.
“Between Heaven and Earth: Rain and Drought in Biblical Hebrew Poetry,” SBL 2009
“Drought Liturgy and the Re-use of Texts in the Hebrew Bible and in Post Biblical Judaism,” SBL 2009
“Literary Use of Dialect in the Hebrew Bible,” SBL 2008
“Knowledge of God in the Book of Judges,” SBL 2008
“Teaching the Biblical Hebrew Verb,” SBL 2007; revised paper
published by invitation on the web site of the Society for Biblical Literature, May 2008. 
“Vocabulary and Morphology in Biblical Hebrew Poetry,” SBL 2007
“The Poetics of Ambiguous Personae,” SBL 2006. 
"Multiple Speaking Voices in the Book of Jeremiah:  a Survey of a Poetic Convention and its Effects," SBL 2005. 
"Beyond the Etnach: Using Cantillation Marks in the Teaching of Biblical Hebrew," SBL 2005.
"The Convention of Multiple Speaking Voices in Biblical Hebrew Poetry," SBL 2004.
“The Better Half or a Spare Rib? A Linguistic Study of Eve's Creation,” SBL 2002.                                                                                             
“‘Turn Right or Left’: Creative Use of Dialect in 2 Samuel 14:19,”  SBL 2001;
Amotz and Avishag Zahavi, The Handicap Principle:  A Missing Piece of Darwin’s Puzzle (Oxford University Press, 1997).  With Melvin Patrick Ely.  Translated from the Hebrew with extensive rewriting.
"A Modem-Accessible Free-Form Database for Assistive Technology Information and Referral," Proceedings of the RESNA International '92 Conference, RESNAPRESS, Washington, DC, 1992, 64-66.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
May 2012-present: Artistic and General Director, Opera in Williamsburg Virginia, see www.operainwilliamsburg.org
August 2010-January 2013: Assistant Professor, Classical Studies Department, College of William and Mary. 
Teaching Biblical Hebrew and classes in Classical Studies using the Hebrew Bible and Classical sources in translation.
August 2003-July 2010: Instructor, Classical Studies Department, College of William and Mary.  Teaching Biblical Hebrew and classes in Classical Studies using the Hebrew Bible and Classical sources in translation  (full-time position, teaching 3 classes per semester)
August 1996-July 2003: Adjunct Instructor, Classical Studies Department, College of William and Mary. 
Teaching Biblical Hebrew.
April 2001-July 2003:  Administrator, Temple Beth El of Williamsburg (independent synagogue).
October 1999-June 2000: Systems Analyst, Information Technology, College of William and Mary. 
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