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 Judaism
Architectural History
Talmud and Midrash
Sacred Space
Roman Cities

Courses

Judaism

THST 6088

Jewish-Christian Relations

THST 616

Sacred Place

THST 3751

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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.

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