Squaring the City: Between Roman and Rabbinic Urban Geometry

Spatial Struggle: Intercity Relations and the Topography of Intra-Rabbinic Competition

orah in triclinia: the Rabbinic Banquet and the Significance of Architecture

Non-canonical Towns: Representation of Urban Paradigms in Talmudic Understanding of the Jewish city

The Topography of Symbol: Between Late Antique and Modern Jewish Understanding of Cities

Oral Towns: Rabbinic Discourse and the Understanding of the Late Antique Jewish City

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Judaism

Jewish-Christian Relations

Sacred Place

Judaism: Religion, History & Culture

Hebrew Bible: Theology, History & Interpretation

The Holy Land & Jerusalem: A Religious History

Gil P. Klein received his undergraduate degree from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He has been awarded research fellowships at the Getty Research Institute, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His work, which explores the urban setting of Jews in Roman and Byzantine Palestine and the rabbinic spatial culture, has been published in a variety of academic journals and collected volumes. He is currently completing a book manuscript on rabbinic spatial politics in the late antique city.

Rabbinic Judaism

Architectural History

Talmud and Midrash

Sacred Space

Roman Cities

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"Architecture Landscape and Rabbinic Place-Making " in AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies

Associate Professor of Theological Studies

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