Rivka Elitzur-Leiman is a researcher of ancient Jewish magic and an epigraphist interested especially in material culture. Her research collaboration at the Neubauer Collegium focuses on visuality and materiality in Ancient Jewish amulets. Elitzur-Leiman wrote her PhD thesis at Tel Aviv University on Jewish amulets from Late Antique Palestine. She is currently a postdoctoral affiliate at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and a research fellow of the ERC project “Licit and Illicit Ritual in Jewish and Christian Magical Traditions” at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.