My falconry research examines how elite hunting practice entered Jewish textual, legal, and visual cultures, and how medieval realities reshaped the reading of earlier sources. The work begins with close philological analysis of rabbinic corpora, identifying where terminology, analogies, and legal reasoning reflect medieval falconry knowledge rather than late antique contexts. I then correlate these findings with visual evidence—manuscripts, marginal motifs, and related artworks—to show how hunting culture functioned as both lived practice and symbolic vocabulary.

This research agenda is represented in studies of law, interpretation, and cultural transfer, including “Toxic Talons and Venomous Nails: The Impetus for Falconry and Its Imposition on Ancient Jewish Law,” “On the Mighty Hand of the Lord: Medieval Falconry intrudes upon the Bible,” “‘This Horse is a Bird Specialist’: Falconry intrudes upon the Palestinian Mishnah in Sasanian Babylonia,” and “The Rabbis on the Hunt: From Palestine to Poland,” alongside earlier foundational work on northern French rabbinic contexts (“Jewish Hawking in Medieval France: Falconry, Rabbenu Tam, and the Tosafists”). I also develop this material for broader audiences through public scholarship, including my Tablet Magazine essay, “Rabbenu Tam and the Silver Talons”.