ד"ר אלישיב שרלו

EDUCATION

2013–2015: B.Ed. (summa cum laude), Herzog College

Majors: Bible and Oral Torah

2015–2016: Supp. for M.A., Dept. of Talmud & Halakhah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2017–2019: M.A. (summa cum laude), Dept. of Talmud & Halakhah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Thesis: The geresh in Talmud Yerushalmi
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Shlomo Naeh

2019–2024: Ph.D., Dept. of Talmud & Halakhah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dissertation: The Development of Tannaitic Laws of Stolen and Lost Property: Textual, Legal, and Historical Contexts 
Dissertation Advisor: Prof. Yair Furstenberg

Awarded: June 13, 2024

2024–2025:  Starr Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies

Project: The Consolidation of Rabbinic Private Law from Multiple Legal Cultures

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2025–present: Senior Lecturer, Department of Talmud, Bar-Ilan University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Dept. of Talmud & Halakhah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2016–2019: Talmud Preparatory Course (B.A.)

2020–2022: Studies in the Babylonian Talmud & Its Research (M.A.)

2023: The Babylonian Talmud Within Rabbinic Literature (M.A.); The Talmud and Jewish Studies Research (M.A.)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2017–2022: Research assistant in Dr. Yoav Rosenthal's project: Unknown Traditions of the Babylonian Talmud Preserved in the Cairo Genizah

Sorting and analyzing dozens of Genizah fragments; reading and summarizing a rich bibliography about the textual criticism of the Babylonian Talmud.

2019–2022: Research assistant in Prof. Yair Furstenberg's project: Making Law under Rome: The Making of Rabbinic Halakhah within Its Provincial Legal Context

Comparative study of the Mishnah tractates Bava Qamma and Bava Metzia and its Roman parallels; reading and summarizing of relevant bibliography; building a database for researchers in the field.

2023–2024: Co-Editor in Prof. Menachem Katz project: The Talmud Yerushalmi Digital Critical Edition.

Editing a critical edition of tractates from the Jerusalem Talmud; Locating parallels between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds; Detailed analysis of the physical characteristics of Palestinian Talmud manuscripts.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Cherlow, Elyashiv. “The History of the Text of Talmud Yerushalmi: Studies of the Genizah Fragments.” Tarbiz, vol. 87, no. 4, 2020, pp. 587–639. [Heb.]
2. Cherlow, Elyashiv. “Not only Remnants: Review of 'Ginze Yerushalmi’.” Zion, vol. 86, no. 4, 2021, pp. 631–660. [Heb.]
3. Cherlow, Elyashiv. “milta belo ta'ama: A Chapter in the Talmud Yerushalmi Textual History.” Tarbiz, vol. 88, no. 2, 2022, pp. 183–220. [Heb.]
4. Cherlow, Elyashiv. “An Enigmatic Aramaic-Hebrew-Greek Glossary of The Jerusalem Talmud.” Journal of Semitic Studies, vol. 68, no. 2, 2023, pp. 403–414. (https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad016)
5. Cherlow, Elyashiv and Breuer, Adiel, “Remnants of 'Ma'asim Livne Ereẓ Yisra'el' Written on a Scroll.” Tarbiz, vol. 89, no. 2, 2023, pp. 369–392. [Heb.]
6. Cherlow, Elyashiv. “An Abbreviation of Talmud Yerushalmi Tractate Suuka from The Cairo Genizah.” Ginzei Qedem, vol. 19, 2023, pp. 133–156. [Heb.]
7. Cherlow, Elyashiv. “The Proofreader’s Pen: An Early Yerushalmi Manuscript with Interpretive Glosses.” Sidra, vol. 35, 2023, pp. 169–200. [Heb.]
8. Cherlow, Elyashiv. “The Noahide Commandments in the Jerusalem Talmud from a Cairo Genizah Fragment.” Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. 114, no. 3, 2024, pp. 325–336.
9. Cherlow, Elyashiv. “The Subdivision of Tractates Nezikin and Kelim.” Netuim, vol. 24–25, 2024, pp. 175–192. [Heb.]
10. Cherlow, Elyashiv. “A Unique Cairo Genizah Manuscript of Babylonian Talmud Tractates

PRESENTATIONS

2019: “First Fruits of Scholarship” Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“The Book of Memory: The geresh as a Key for the Transmission of the Yerushalmi”

2019: The Second Inter-University Graduate Student Conference in Talmud & Halakhah, Ben-Gurion University

“The History of the Text of Talmud Yerushalmi in the Light of the geresh”

2021: The Annual Conference of The PhD Honors Program, Mandel School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Footnote: Linguistic and Intercultural Transitions in the Margins of A Singular Yerushlami Manuscript"

2022:26th Annual Conference of the Western Jewish Studies Association, University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus

"Pointless Text: A study in the Textual Tradition of Talmud Yerushalmi"

2022: The International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture, NAPH, Virtual - Held by The University of Texas at Austin

'Shem in the tents of Japheth: Interpretive Glosses in Talmud Yerushalmi Manuscript'

2022: The Annual Conference of The Department of Talmud, Bar Ilan University

'Correcting the text of the Yerushalmi: Additional tools'

2022: The 18^th World Congres of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

'The Exegetical Value of the Cantillation Marks (te’amim) in the Talmud Yerushalmi Genizah Fragments'

2024: An International Conference for the study of Talmud Yerushalmi, The Department of Talmud, Bar Ilan University

'The Yerushlami and Midrash YelamdenuI: A New Fragment and New Thoughts'

2024: Conference of the Jewish Law Association, Harvard Law School

'Mishnah Bava Qamma Chapter 3: How Municipal Laws Become Torah?'

2024: An International Conference: JTS and the Jerusalem Talmud

Seridei Hayerushalmi and the Research of the Yerushalmi

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES 

Organization of conferences:

2021: The Annual Conference of The PhD Honors Program, Mandel School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2023: “First Fruits of Scholarship” Inter-University Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ad-hoc reviewer: Law and History Review, Journal of Jewish Studies.

Committees: The FJMS–NLI Academic Advisory Committee.  

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2013–2015: “Regev” – Honors Program in Academic Colleges of Education

2019–2023: Presidential Scholarship at Mandel School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2021–2024: Rottenstreich Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students, The Council for Higher Education of Israel

2024–2025: Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica, The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies

2025–2026: Ephraim Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship

AWARDS AND HONORS

2017: Jacob Nahum Epstein Prize (Dept. of Talmud & Halakhah, HUJI)

2019: Arie Lubin Prize (The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, HUJI)

2023: Finalist in position opening at Talmud department, Bar Ilan university.

Job talk: 'The specificatio of the laws of specificatio in the Tosefta' (30.03.2023)

2024: Finalist in position opening at Talmud department, The Hebrew University.

Job talk: "The cantillation marks (tea'amim) in Talmud Yerusahlmi manuscripts" (5.12.2024)

2025: Allan Bronfman Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in the Humanities (HUJI)

LANGUAGES

Hebrew (native); English (high proficiency written and spoken)

Ancient: Syriac (advanced); Aramaic (advanced); Greek (elementary proficiency); Latin (elementary proficiency)