Robert Daum, University of British Columbia
Associate Professor
Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies
Vancouver, British Columbia
robert.daum@ubc.ca
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(778) 987-2918
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Rabbi Dr. Robert Daum is Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Thought, as well as the first Director of the Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at Vancouver School of Theology on the UBC campus. Robert also holds an appointment as a Faculty Associate of the Centre for Women’s & G...
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Rabbi Dr. Robert Daum is Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Thought, as well as the first Director of the Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at Vancouver School of Theology on the UBC campus. Robert also holds an appointment as a Faculty Associate of the Centre for Women’s & Gender Studies at The University of British Columbia. As well, he serves on UBC’s Law & Society Advisory Board. Raised in Connecticut, where he was an officer of the youth movement of the New England region of the Union for Reform Judaism, he completed his B.A. in Political Science at Tufts University in Massachusetts in 1979. In 1986 he was ordained at HUC-JIR in New York. He served as a congregational rabbi in two Reform synagogues in northern California between 1986 and 1998.
Rabbi Daum lectured on Judaism in five Roman Catholic high schools in a program co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco. He also served for several years as a Jewish day school administrator and curriculum consultant. In 2001 he earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he concentrated in Talmud and Jewish intellectual history. From 2002 – 2009 he held the Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at UBC. His research and publications include studies of Jewish identity, gender, ethics, rabbinic literature, comparative religion, religious authority, pluralism and inter-religious dialogue, religious origin narratives, and critical theory.
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Rabbi Daum lectured on Judaism in five Roman Catholic high schools in a program co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco. He also served for several years as a Jewish day school administrator and curriculum consultant. In 2001 he earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he concentrated in Talmud and Jewish intellectual history. From 2002 – 2009 he held the Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at UBC. His research and publications include studies of Jewish identity, gender, ethics, rabbinic literature, comparative religion, religious authority, pluralism and inter-religious dialogue, religious origin narratives, and critical theory.
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