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Gary Porton
Gary Porton is currently the Sarah and Charles Drobny Professor of Talmudic Studies and Judaism at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He received his BA in History from UCLA, his MA in Judaic Studies from HUC-JIR, and his PhD from Brown University, History of Religions: Judaism. He is the author of 7 books, over 35 book chapters and journal articles, and over 80 dictionary and encyclopedia articles and entries. Most of his publications focus on Judaism in Late Antiquity.