When a Heretic and a Rabbi Walk Into a Bar

Presented by Beth Yeshurun and Americans for Ben-Gurion University

Monday, September 12th | 7:30pm | Stein Hall

Dessert Reception Following

What happens when a rabbi and a heretic meet? Sound crazy? Well, it’s not! There are many such fascinating stories in our history. Join us as we explore what happens when two opposites meet with Associate Professor Michal Bar-Asher Siegal.  She is a faculty member at The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and was the Rosen Family Career Development Chair in Judaic Studies at Ben Gurion University (2012-2016). In this academic year, she is the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies at Yale University.

This event is free to the community, but please RVSP below, so we have enough seating and desserts.

More about Michal Bar-Asher Siegel:

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 between 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 was the Rosen Family Career Development Chair in Judaic Studies at Ben Gurion University (2012-2016).

She was an elected member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences. In this 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, a finalist, National Jewish Book Award (2019).)