Michal Bar-Asher Siegal is the Caroline Ze laznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law f or Fall 2026
A scholar of rabbinic Judaism\, Bar-Asher Siegal's work focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian interactions in the ancient world\, and compares between Early Christian and rabbinic sources. She is a facult y member at The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought\, Ben-Gurion U niversity of the Negev\, and was an elected member of the Israel Young Acad emy of Sciences. Her first book is Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press\, 2013\, winner of the 20 14 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award). Her second book is Jewish – Christian Di alogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretic Narratives of the Babylonia n Talmud (Cambridge University Press\, 2019\, a finalist\, National Jewish Book Award (2019).)
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