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 comparisons between Early Christian and rabbinic sources. She is a fac ulty member at The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought\, Ben-Gurio n University of the Negev\, and was an elected member of the Israel Young A cademy of Sciences. Her first book is Early Christian Monastic Literature a nd 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 Babylo nian Talmud (Cambridge University Press\, 2019\, a finalist\, National Jewi sh Book Award (2019).)
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