Rab­bi Dr. Richard Hidary is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Juda­ic stud­ies at Yeshi­va Uni­ver­si­ty and author of, most recent­ly, Rab­bis and Clas­si­cal Rhetoric: Sophis­tic Edu­ca­tion and Ora­to­ry in the Tal­mud and Midrash (Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2017)