Dalia Marx

Rabbi Dalia Marx is Professor of Liturgy and Midrash at Hebrew Union College-JIR in Jerusalem. She received her rabbinic ordination at HUC-JIR (Jerusalem and Cincinnati) in 2003 and earned her PhD at the Hebrew University in 2005.

Dalia Marx

Publications

Books

• From Time to Time: Journeys in the Jewish Calendar (English translation of Bazman, 2023)
• Bazman (2018; also translated into German and Spanish)
• When I Sleep and When I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn (2010)
• Tractates Tamid, Middot and Qinnim: A Feminist Commentary of the Babylonian Talmud (2013)

Other works

• "When L’shon HaKodesh Is Also the Vernacular: The Development of Israeli Reform Liturgy", CCAR Journal, Fall 2009, pp. 31–62
• "The Morning Ritual (Birkhot Hashachar) in the Talmud: The Reconstructing of Body and Mind through the Blessings", Hebrew Union College Annual, 77 (2008), pp. 103–129.
• "Influences of the Feminist Movement on Jewish Liturgy: The case of Israeli Reform Prayer", Sociological Papers, 14 (2009), pp. 67–79.
• "Women and Priests: Encounters and Dangers, as reflected in I Sam 2:22", Lectio Dificilior, 1, 2011.
• "Tractate Qinnim: Marginality or horizons: Introduction to Seder Qodashim: A Feminist Commentary of the Babylonian Talmud", V, Tal Ilan, Monika Brockhaus and Tanja Hidde, Tübingen 2012, 253–272.
• Marx, D. (2013). The missing temple: The status of the temple in Jewish culture following its destruction. European Judaism, 46(2), 61–78.
• Dan Levene, Dalia Marx, Siam Bhayro, "'Gabriel is on their Right': Angelic Protection in Jewish Magic and Babylonian Lore"' Studia Mesopotamica 1 (2014) 185-198
• "The Prayer of Susanna (Daniel 13)", Stefan Reif, Renate Egger-Wenzel (eds.), Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions, Berlin 2015, 221–238.
• "‘Where was Sarah?’ – Depictions of Mothers and Motherhood in Modern Israeli Poetry on the Binding of Isaac”, Marjorie Lehman, Jane L. Kanarek, and Simon J. Bronner (eds.), Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination, Liverpool: Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation, 2017, 255–281.
• "Participation of Non-Jewish Family Members in Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Ceremonies in the American Reform Movement: Boundaries or Inclusion“, Tudor Parfitt and Nethanel Fisher (eds.), Becoming Jewish: New Jews And Emerging Jewish Communities in Globalized Jewish World, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016, 353–368.
• "Zion and Zionizm In Reform Liturgy", Lawrence Englander and Stanley David (eds.), Fragile Dialogue: The New Voices of Liberal Zionism, New York: CCAR Press, 2017, 155-174 [1]
• "Use of the Discarded Past to Create the Future: Renewal and Incorporation of the Old Eretz-Israel Rite in Contemporary Prayer Books“, Jewish Studies Quarterly 23 (2016), 345–373.
• "Reform Liturgy: Then and Now“, Dana Even Kaplan (ed.), Life of Meaning, New York: CCAR Press, 2017, 349–368.