Scriptural redaction
Editorial activity within biblical books, including visible seams, interpolations, and textual layering.
Idan is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director in the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University and Acting Research Director of the School of Philosophical, Historical, and Indigenous Studies. He also teaches at Beit Midrash Oz, an open and inclusive house of Jewish learning in Melbourne. Earlier appointments include the Chair of Hebrew Bible and Its Exegesis at the University of Potsdam and a Junior Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
His research interests include biblical law, codicology, linguistics, ancient history, and computational humanities, with a particular interest in how texts were composed, edited, and transmitted.
Research themes
Manuscript history
Early witnesses, disputed discoveries, and the transmission history of biblical material.
Digital Humanities
Computational tools for classifying, segmenting, and analyzing ancient texts.