Ariel Zinder is a senior lecturer in the department of literature at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include Hebrew liturgical poetry, medieval Hebrew literature, literary theory and the interconnections between literature and religion. Currently he is working on a critical edition of the poetry of Itzhak Ibn Giyyat (Al-Andalus, 11th century), as well as several other projects. Among these are the history of the representation of God’s voice in Hebrew poetry, and an interpretive discussion of the relation of poetry to ritual in medieval Jewish culture. Zinder is also a published poet and translator. In 2016 he published (with co-translator Lyor Sternberg) the first Hebrew translation of Seamus Heaney’s selected poems.