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Gil P. Klein

Associate Professor of Theological Studies

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

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.

Education

Cambridge University

Ph.D., 2007

Cambridge University

M.Phil., 2003

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

B.Arch, 1998

Areas of Expertise

Rabbinic JudaismArchitectural HistoryTalmud and MidrashSacred SpaceRoman Cities

Courses

Judaism

THST 6088

Jewish-Christian Relations

THST 616

Sacred Place

THST 3751

Judaism: Religion, History & Culture

THST 3001

Hebrew Bible: Theology, History & Interpretation

THST 1000

The Holy Land & Jerusalem: A Religious History

FFYS 1000

Articles

Squaring the City: Between Roman and Rabbinic Urban Geometry

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

“Squaring the City: Between Roman and Rabbinic Urban Geometry,” in Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, eds. Henriette Steiner and Maximilian Sternberg (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), 34-48.

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

Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World

“Spatial Struggle: Intercity Relations and the Topography of Intra-Rabbinic Competition,” in Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World, eds. Jordan D. Rosenblum, Lily C. Vuong, and Nathaniel P. DesRosiers (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 153-167.

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

Jewish Quarterly Review

“Torah in triclinia: the Rabbinic Banquet and the Significance of Architecture,” Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 102, No. 3 (2012): 325-370.

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

Studia Rosenthaliana

“Non-canonical Towns: Representation of Urban Paradigms in Talmudic Understanding of the Jewish city,” Studia Rosenthaliana 40 (2008): 231-263.

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

Zeitschrift für Religions und Geistesgeschichte

“The Topography of Symbol: Between Late Antique and Modern Jewish Understanding of Cities”, Zeitschrift für Religions und Geistesgeschichte 58, 1 (2006): 16-28.

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

magining the City – vol. 2: The Politics of Urban Space

“Oral Towns: Rabbinic Discourse and the Understanding of the Late Antique Jewish City,” in Imagining the City – vol. 2: The Politics of Urban Space, edited by Christian Emden, Catherine Keen and David Midgley (Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006), 27-48.