Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002). After Postdoctoral years at Princeton University and the Hebrew University (Scholion Institute) he was CNRS researcher in Aix-en-Provence, France. Since 2010 he is Chair for Hebrew and Aramaic Language, Literature, Epigraphy and Paleography from the 400 BCE to 400 CE at the EPHE, PSL in Paris. His work focuses on Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Rabbinics and Computational Humanities with a special interest in book collections, liturgy, paleography and Jewish-Christian relations.
His print publications include The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity (2003), an edition and commented translation of Mishnah Bikkurim (2011), a textbook on Qumran (2016), an edition and commented translation of the Community Rule (with Thierry Legrand, 2017), the coedited volumes Aramaica Qumranica (with Katell Berthelot, 2010), L’identité à travers l’éthique (with Katell Berthelot & Ron Naiweld, 2015), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions and Strategies of Religious Subversion (with Moshe Blidstein & Serge Ruzer, 2018), Diversity and Rabbinization. Jewish Texts and Societies Between 400 and 1000 (with Gavin McDowell & Ron Naiweld, 2021), and Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (with Gerben Zaagsma, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis & Amalia Levi, 2022) and 75 articles.
His electronic publications include the THesaurus Antiquorum Lectionariorum Ecclesiae Synagogaeque, a database on Jewish and Christian fixed liturgical readings, pilot editions (with Hayim Lapin) of the eRabbinica-Mishnah and Mekhilta deRabbi Yishmael. He has published the first open source segmentation models for segmentation and transcription of Hebrew manuscripts. He is codirector of eScriptorium, a cutting-edge open source platform for analyzing and transcribing manuscripts (with Peter Stokes), communicating PI of the ERC Synergy MiDRASH (with Judith Schlanger, Avi Shmidman and Nachum Dershowitz), co-PI of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Digital Age programme (with Judith Schlanger) and coeditor of eRabbinica, a platform for the publication of editions of Rabbinic texts. Since 2018 he has been speaker of the Digital Forum of the European Association of Jewish Studies and member of its Executive Board. He has co-organized three manuSciences summerschools on the study of manuscripts with Material Sciences, Computer Sciences, Philology and Digital Humanities (with Ira Rabin, Oliver Hahn, Peter Stokes and Eberhard Mahnke).