Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

Publications

Books
Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (Google-Books) (reviews)

Edited volumes:
1. The Faces of Torah: Studies in the Texts and Contexts of Ancient Judaism in Honor of Steven Fraade, co-editor with Christine Hayes and Tzvi Novick, Supplements to the Journal of Ancient Judaism, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017.

2. Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, co editor with Matthew Thiessen and Wolfgang gruenstaeudl, Mohr Siebeck's Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament Series (forthcoming October 2017)

Research Articles
1. “The Problem of Evil in the Syriac Translation of the Book of Ben Sira: the Differences between the Hebrew and the Syriac Texts Reconsidered,” Shenaton leHeqer haMikra 19 (2009): 137-151 [=Hebrew]

2. “The Treatment of Poverty and Theodicy in the Syriac Translation of Ben Sira,” Aramaic Studies 7.2 (2009):  131–154

3. “The Unintentional Killer: Mishnah Makkot and its Midrashic Sources,” Journal of Jewish Studies 61.1 (2010):  30-47

4. “The Making of a Monk-Rabbi: the Background for the Creation of the Stories of R. Shimon bar Yohai in the Cave,” Zion 76:3 (2011), pp. 279-304 [=Hebrew]

5. “Shared Worlds: Rabbinic and Monastic literature,” Harvard Theological Review 105:4 (2012):  423-456

6. “Talmudic Monks: Early Christian Monastic and Rabbinic Literatures,” Zemanim 120 ( 2012), 110-117[=Hebrew]

 7. “Mountains hanging by a strand? Re-reading mishnah Hagiga 1:8,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 4 (2013): 235–256

8. “On the meaning of ‘Hararim’,” Leshonenu 76 (2014): 137-148 [=Hebrew]

9. “Ethics and Identity Formation: Resh Lakish and the monastic repentant robber,” in: L'identité à travers l'éthique: Nouvelles perspectives sur la formation des identités collectives dans le monde greco-romain, K. Berthelot, R. Naiweld, D. Stökl Ben Ezra (eds.), Turnhout, Brepols 2015, pp. 53-72

10. “Prayer in rabbinic and monastic literature,” in: Jewish Prayer: New Perspectives, Ben Gurion University Press 2016 pp/ 63-77 [Hebrew]

11. "Iber, Ibur haDin and Parashat haIbur", Leshonenu 78 (2016), 43-59 [=Hebrew]

12. Co-authored with Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, “ ‘Rejoice, O barren one who bore no child’: Beruria and the Jewish-Christian conversation in the Babylonian Talmud,” in: The Faces of Torah: Studies in the Texts and Contexts of Ancient Judaism in Honor of Steven Fraade, edited by Christine Hayes, Tzvi Novick, and Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Supplements to the Journal of Ancient Judaism, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017, pp. 199-220.

13. "Moses in the Apophthegmata Patrum and rabbinic literature," in: Die Idee des Mose – Eine rezeptionsgeschichtliche Betrachtung einer identitätsstiftenden Idee, V. Niederhofer, E. Eynikel and M. Sommer (eds.), Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (=WUNT I), Mohr Siebeck (accepted, forthcoming 2016)

14. “Mishna Hagigah: Introduction and an English Translation and Annotation,” in: Oxford Annotated Mishnah, Hayim Lapin and Shaye Cohen (eds.), Oxford University Press (accepted, forthcoming)

15. "The Collection of Traditions in Monastic and Rabbinic Anthologies as a Reflection of Lived Religion," Religion in the Roman Empire 2 (2016), pp. 72-90

16. "Uncovering midrash: The Hebrew Slave in the Mekhilta deRabbi Ishmael," Journal of Jewish Studies 68 (2017) pp/ 34-57

17. "Fool, look to the end of the verse': B. Hullin 87a and its Christian background," in: The Aggada of the Bavli and its Cultural World, Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey L. Rubenstein (eds) Brown Judaic Studies series (accepted, forthcoming)

18. "Saying of the desert fathers, Sayings of the rabbinic fathers: Avot deRabbi Nattan and the Apophthegmata Patrum", Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum (ZAC) 20:2 (2016),  pp. 211-227

19. "Interactions between the Syriac World and Judaism," in: The Syriac World, Daniel King (ed.) New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2017)

20. "'The best of them is like a brier': On b. ‘Eruvin 101a and the Jewish-Christian dialogue in the Babylonian Talmud," in: Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, Matthew Thiessen, Wolfgang Gruenstaeudl and Michal Bar-Asher Siegal (eds.), Mohr Siebeck's Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament Series, 2017, pp. 131-146
 

21. "Rabbinic Literature," in Late Ancient Jews and Judaism, Naomi Koltun-Fromm and Gwynn Kessler (eds.), New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming)
 

22 "Matthew 5:22: The insult "fool" and the interpretation of the law in Christian and rabbinic sources," Revue de l'Histoire des Religions 234:1 (2017), pp. 5-23

23. "Early collections of monastic rules and rabbinic literature: preliminary considerations," in Law and Lawlessness in Early Judaism and Christianity, Charles Stang, David Lincicum and Ruth Sheridan (eds.), Mohr Siebeck's Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament Series (forthcoming 2017)
 

Entries in reference books
“Judah, Rabbi (HaNasi)”; “Eliezer ben Hyrcanus”; “Elisha ben Abuye,” in: Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Eric Orlin, Lisbeth Fried, Jennifer Knust, and Michael Satlow (eds.), New York: Routledge 2016

Reviews of "Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud"

1. Catherine Hezser, Journal of Jewish Studies, pp. 411-413

2. Florence Jullien. Abstracta Iranica, Volume 34-35-36 (2016) [French]

3. Ilaria Briata, Henoch 38:1 (2016), pp. 125-128 [Spanish]

4. Richard Hidary, Review of Rabbinic Judaism 19 (2016), pp. 283–291

5. Joshua Schwartz, Review of Biblical Literature 08/2016

6. Albert Baumgarten, Zion 81:2 (2016), pp. 249-256

7. Michael L. Satlow, Journal of Early Chirstian Studies 24:2 (2016), pp. 295-296

8. Daniel Boyarin, Marginalia, Los Angeles Review of Books June 9, 2015

9. Gary Anderson, AJS Review 39:1 (2015), pp 167 - 170

10. Holger Zellentin, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 10 (2015)

11. Jonathan L. Zecher, Reviews in Religion & Theology 22:2 (2015), pp. 192–194

12. Sergey Dolgopolski; Moulie Vidas; Christine Hayes, The Talmud Blog (March 29, 2015)

13. Joshua Kulp, Prooftexts 33 (2013): 381–394