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Jonathan Schofer joined the Faculty of Divinity in January 2006,
after being on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His research and teaching center on the nature of the self, ideals for living a good life,
and especially how one is to attain those ideals through spiritual exercises, disciplinary practices, and more.
Schofer's primary area of research is classical rabbinic literature and thought.
His first book set the groundwork for the study of rabbinic character ethics, focusing on the transformation
of emotion and desire, The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).
His second book continues this line of inquiry with a focus on the ethical significance of mortality and bodily
vulnerability, Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
Schofer is also researching the significance of descriptive and comparative ethics for our understandings of reason,
subjectivity, tradition, and cosmology. He teaches courses in both rabbinic Judaism and comparative ethics.
Materials in his ethics courses include scholarly theories of the self and ethics inspired by Aristotle,
Freud, and Foucault, and comparative reflections addressing classical Greece and China, contemporary Indonesia
and Central America, and the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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On leave spring term 2010 and fall term 2010.
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