 His works testify that if one has to posit a viable tradition of Jewish iconography, one needs to stand up for the independence or interdependence of that tradition, rather than revert to a codependent model.Epstein has served as the Corcoran Visiting Chair of Jewish-Christian Relations at Boston College, and as the Shoshana Shier Distinguished Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at The University of Toronto

Books

""If Lions Could Carve Stones..." The Medieval Jewish Minority and the Allegorization of the Animal Kingdom