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Reuven Firestone
American historian of religion (b.1952)
Reuven Firestone is an American academic and historian of religion, who serves as the Regenstein Professor in Medieval Judaism and Islam at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's Skirball Campus in Los Angeles and Affiliate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California.[1]
Biography
Firestone was born in Northern California and has lived with his family in Israel, Egypt, and Germany.[1] He regularly lectures in universities and religious centers throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.[1] He has initiated and continues to be involved in numerous projects and initiatives which bring together Jews, Muslims, and Christians, Jews and Arabs, and Israelis and Palestinians.[1]
Firestone earned his B.A.
at Antioch College, his M.A. and Rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1982,[