But he has come to recognize that this is not always, or even usually, the case. 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: A Textual and Iconographic Study" (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1993)  "The Jerusalem Haggadah: Gateway to the Haggadah" (Jerusalem: Aryeh Editions, 1997)  "Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature." (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1997)  "The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative and Religious Imagination" (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2011)  "Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Manuscript Illumination" (Princeton, London: Princeton University Press, 2015)  "The Brother Haggadah: A Medieval Sephardi Masterpiece in Facsimile" (London, New York: Thames and Hudson, 2016)