Gary G. Porton is Professor of Religious Studies, history, and Comparative Literature, and the Drobny Professor of Talmudic Studies and Judaism at the University of Illinois. His major research interests include "the other" in Judaism, rabbinic ideas of the gentile, conversion in Judaism in late antiquity, Jewish biblical exegesis, literary studies of rabbinic literature, the feminine in rabbinic literature, American liberal Judaism. He teaches courses in the history of Judaism, religious responses to the Holocaust, American Judaism, Judaism in late antiquity, Jewish customs and ceremonies, and Jewish sacred literature.

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Courses Taught
RLST 120 A History of Judaism
RLST 130 Jewish Customs and Ceremonies
RLST 221 American Judaism
RLST 242 Holocaust: Religious Responses
RLST 283 Jewish Sacred Literature
RLST 442 History of Early Judaism