Tal Ilan has taught, lectured, and published widely on ancient Judaism and the social history of Jewish women in antiquity. Her book Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and Other Jewish Women was published in 2006. She is the editor of the online journal Lectio Difficilior and of the series A Feminist Commentary on the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud (FCBT) in Mohr Siebeck. Since 2003 she has been a professor at the Institut für Judiastik, Freie Universtität, Berlin.