B.A. summa cum laude Harvard College; M.Phil University of Cambridge; PhD summa cum laude The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.A specialist in medieval Judeo-Arabic texts, Prof. Goldstein focuses on interreligious relations in the medieval Arabic-speaking world as well as Judeo-Arabic Bible exegesis. She is author of A Judeo-Arabic Parody of the Life of Jesus: The Toledot Yeshu Helene Narrative (Tübingen, 2023) and Karaite Exegesis in Medieval Jerusalem (Tübingen, 2011) and co-editor of Beyond Religious Borders: Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World (2011) and Authorship in Mediaeval Arabic and Persian Literatures (2019), and has published numerous articles on Arabic and Judeo-Arabic literature. Her work has been supported by the Israel Science Foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Minerva Stiftung, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, a Marshall Fellowship and the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development.

Prof. Goldstein’s current major project is a critical edition and translation of the Judeo-Arabic Pentateuch commentaries of the Baghdadi Karaite scholar Ya‘qub al-Qirqisani.

Goldstein is a former triathlete and a fervent believer in sustainability and living lightly on the planet, and more than her academic publications, may be proudest of a piece that appeared this year in Israel’s national Haaretz paper featuring her and her bike commute to the Mt Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.