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Michal Bar-Asher Siegal |
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Professional Presentations
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"Turning Points in
the Study of the Jews of Antiquity: On Shlomo Naeh, 'Heruta'," 49th Annual
Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC (December 2017) "What will become of us at the hands of the heretics?: on minim stories in the Babylonian Talmud, the case of Yevamot 102b" in: "Talmud and Christianity: Rabbinic Judaism after Constantine," Cambridge University UK (June 2016) "Babylonian Talmud tractate Hulin 87a," in "Self and Other: containing and differentiation in Late Antiquity," Haifa University (May 2016) "Christian minim in the Babylonian Talmud: Eruvin 101a" in: Manfred Lautenschlaeger Symposium, Ben Gurion University (March 2016)
"Minim stories in the
Babylonian Talmud," invited paper, department seminar, Department of
Religion, Princeton University NJ (December 2015) "When a heretic walks into a rabbinic study house," invited paper, in "Identifying Jewish and Christian Patterns in the Literature of Late Antiquity and Middle Ages,” The Cyrillo-Methodian Researh Center at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (September 2015) "The insult "fool" and the interpretation of the law in Christian and rabbinic sources," Invited paper, in the "Law and Lawlessness in Early Judaism and Christianity," Lautenschläger colloquium, Oxford University (August 2015) "'Fool, look to the end of the verse': on minim stories in the Babylonian Talmud," invited paper, "The Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and its Cultural World," New York University, New York, NY (June 2015) "What is Bavli? State of the Field. Approaching the Bavli's Structure," the 46th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD (December 2014) "Rabbinic and monastic literary parallels," invited paper, in the workshop: "Education and Literary Activity in Early Palestinian Monasticism: the Archaeological and the Manuscript evidence," the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (October 2014) “Saying of the desert fathers, Sayings of the rabbinic fathers: on Jewish- Christian parallels in Avot deRabbi Natan,” Manfred Lautenschlaeger colloquium, Heidelberg University (May 2014) “Moses in the Apophthegmata Patrum and rabbinic literature,” Symposium im Rahmen der Gastprofessur der Joseph Ratzinger/Papst Benedikt XVI.-Stiftung (=the Pope Benedikt Professorship symposium), Regensburg University (May 2014) "Sharpening the knife: Making religion effective in everyday life: Appropriation of texts," invited paper, Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”', the Max Weber Centre of the University of Erfurt (June 2013) “Prayer in rabbinic and monastic literature,” The Goldstein-Goren annual conference, Ben Gurion University (May 2013) “New horizons in the study of Tannaitic midrashim,” invited paper, special panel, Society of Biblical Literature 2012 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (November 2012) “The Babylonian Talmud and Early Christian Monastic Literature,” invited paper, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University (April 2012) “Talmudic monks: The Babylonian Talmud and Early Christian Monastic Literature,” invited paper, Department of Theology, Notre Dame University (April 2012) “Methodological Considerations for the Study of the Babylonian Talmud in Light of Syriac and Middle Persian Sources,” invited paper, special panel, Society of Biblical Literature 2011 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (November 2011) “Monastic Texts and the Babylonian Talmud: Ethics as Interface,” Invited paper, CNRS, Centre Paul Albert Février, Identity through ethics: New Perspectives on the Shaping of Group Identities in the Greco-Roman World, Aix en Provence, France (June 2011). “Avot de-Rabbi Natan and the Monastic Literature: a Comparative Study,” Midreshei Aggadah in Eretz Israel and Their Proliferation, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, and The Hebrew University (June 2011) “ ‘In The Place Where Penitents Stand,’ Repentance in Rabbinic and Monastic Sources,” the Department Seminar, the Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University (May 2011) “On Comparing Texts,” the Department Seminar, the Department of Philosophy, Haifa University (May 2011) “Rabbis and Monks: The Babylonian Talmud in Light of Contemporary Monastic Writings,” the Department Seminar, the Talmud Department, Bar-Ilan University (February 2011) “ ‘Wisdom among the Nations, Believe it, Torah among the Nations, do not Believe it’: The Use of Non-Jewish Material in Rabbinic Sources,” the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA (December 2010) 22. “Rabbis and Monks: Literary Phagocytosis,” invited paper, The Centre for Jewish Studies Graduate Colloquium, University of Toronto, Toronto (April 2010) 23. “The Art of Absorptive Quotation: Monastic Sources and the Redaction of the Bavli,” invited paper, Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies Annual symposium: “The Literary Art of the Bavli,” University of California, Berkeley, CA (January 2010) 24. “The Hebrew Slave's Pierced Ear: The Mechilta deRabbi Ishmael Secondary Use of Earlier Midrashic Materials,” the 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, CA (December 2009) “Repentance in Monastic Sources and the Babylonian Talmud: the Story of Elazar B. Dordya,” Society of Biblical Literature 2009 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (November 2009) “Monks in the Babylonian Talmud: Literary Analogies in Rabbinic and Christian Monastic Sources,” University College London (November 2009) “Rashbi and the Cave: Monastic Traditions and their Rabbinic Parallels,” The 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem (August 2009) “The RASHBI Stories: Monastic Traditions and their Jewish Analogies,” the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC (December 2008) “Jewish-Christian analogies in the Babylonian Talmud, a reexamination based on comparison with Christian Monastic texts,” Society of Biblical Literature 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (November 2008) “The Unintentional Killer: Mishnah Makkot and its Midrashic Sources,” the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, Canada (December 2007) “The Syriac Translation of the Book of Ben Sira: Differences between the Hebrew and the Syriac Texts Reconsidered,” Society of Biblical Literature 2007 Annual Meeting, San Diego, California (November 2007) “ ‘And the LORD Said unto Me, Let it Suffice Thee; Speak No More unto Me of this Matter’ (Deut 3:27) - Rav Lach in the Tannaitic Midrash Sifre Deuteronomy,” The Ancient Judaism Workshop, Yale University (October 2007) “The Problem of Evil in the Syriac Translation of the Book of Ben Sira,” Dorushe Graduate Student Syriac Studies Conference, Princeton University, (April 2007) “The Mekhilta Deuteronomy of R. Ishmael on Tithes (Deut 14:22-29),” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) 38th Annual Conference, San Diego, California (December 2006) “Hoffman's Midrash Tannaim on Deutronomy – how close is it to the original Tannaitic Midrash from the school of R. Ishmael?”, Society of Biblical Literature 2006 Annual Meeting, Washington DC (November 2006)
“Parashat Rotse’ah Bishgaga (Deut. 19: 1-10): The Relation between
the Mishnah and the Sifri Devarim”, a lecture in an evening in the
memory of J.N. Epstein, The Talmud Department, Hebrew University,
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