About
Chen Marx, Ph.D.
Chen is Married with two children. He has a Ph.D. in Rabbinic Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and teaches Rabbinic Literature and General Literature at The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Beit Berl College and The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. He also teaches literature and serves as a homeroom teacher in high schools
Chen won the Graduate award for the best student paper relating to the old testament in the European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference in Thessaloniki, 2011
His book "Why bad things happen to good people" will be published on January 2022
Areas of interest
Interests: Chen is interested mainly in a literary, rather than scriptural, reading of Rrabbinic Literature. His research reveals the poetic aspects of that literature by using contemporary literary theories to analyse the ancient text.The research deals with stories in which the Sages are concerned with:
- Magic and witchcraft
- Demonology
- Power struggles and conflicting egos
- Humor
- Pedagogy
His current areas of research are:
- Reward and Punishment theory in Jewish culture
- The power language has to shape and create the world
- The role of figurative language in rabbinic literature
- Pedagogy in rabbinic literature