Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, "The Babylonian Talmud and Jewish-Christian Literary Relations"

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, "The Babylonian Talmud and Jewish-Christian Literary Relations in Late Antiquity," February 28, 2023
Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal presents the argument that Talmudic literary traditions must be examined as part of the Late Antique boundary-creating discourse between the rabbinic authors and contemporaneous Christians. It adds to our surprising and growing understanding of the rabbinic authors' familiarity with Christian traditions, and to the ways in which we can access the complex relations between the two religious communities.
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal is a scholar of rabbinic Judaism. Her work focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian interactions in the ancient world, and compares early Christian and rabbinic sources. She is a faculty member at the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and she was an elected member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences. During the 2022-2023 academic year, she is the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies at Yale University. Her first book is "Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud" (Cambridge University Press, 2013; winner of the 2014 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award). Her second book is "Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretic Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud" (Cambridge University Press, 2019; finalist, National Jewish Book Award, 2019).