Dr. Aaron Amit is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Dr. Amit is the author of a volume of critical commentary on the Talmud (Talmud Ha-Igud, BT Pesahim, Chapter IV, Jerusalem 2009), and of numerous scholarly articles dealing with the influence of contemporary Greco-Roman culture and language on rabbinic literature, the textual transmission of the Talmud Bavli and the history of halakhah.