José Faur teaches Talmud at Bar-Ilan University and Law at the newly established Law School in Netanya, Israel. He has published numerous studies in the fields of Sephardica, Rabbinic literature and jurisprudence, linguistics, and critical theory. He is author of In the Shadow of History: Jews and Conversos at the Dawn of Modernity (1992), Golden Doves with Silver Dots: Semiotics and Textuality in Rabbinic Tradition (1986), and Studies in the Mishne Tora (1978, in Hebrew).