Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein is the director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute and lecturer and director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College in Jerusalem. A renowned lecturer, Rabbi Goshen-Gottstein is the author of over three dozen articles on the topics of spirituality, theology and philosophy, which have appeared in a numerous scholarly journals including Harvard Theological Review. He is most recently the author of The Sinner and the Amnesiac: The Rabbinic Invention of Elisha ben Abuya and Eleazar ben Arach (Stanford University Press).