Steven Fine is a historian of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World and a professor at Yeshiva University.
Education
Fine received a Bachelor in Religious Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979, an Master of Arts in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California in 1984, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Jewish History from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1993.
Career
Fine worked as an intern in the Departments of Jewish Art and Jewish Folklore at the Israel Museum (1977-1978, 1980-1981), in the Department of Indian Art of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1982-1983, under the tutelage of Pratapaditya Pal), and then as curator of the University of Southern California Archaeological Research Collection (1983-1987 under the tutelage of Bruce Zuckerman). Steven Fine joined the faculty of Yeshiva University in 2005 as Professor of Jewish History, and served as chair of the Department of Jewish History at Yeshiva College. In 2015 he was awarded the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Chair in Jewish History at Yeshiva University.
He is the Founding Director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and the Architecture of Titus Project.
Architecture of Titus
Fine is the head of the Architecture of Titus Digital Restoration Project. The team discovered original yellow ochre paint that was originally on the menorah at the archaeology
Some of his work, including his class on the Architecture of Titus, has been dedicated to debunking the myth that the ancient menorah from the Temple in Jerusalem is in the Vatican.