Location: UBC, BUCH B141
Professor Michal Bar-Asher Siegal of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies at Yale University
While earlier researchers conceptualized a “parting-of-the-ways,” after which the two religions, Judaism and Christianity, evolved independently, new studies reveal a multi-layered set of interactions throughout the first several centuries CE. This project offers a new set of methodological tools, borrowed from computer sciences, for understanding the connections between Jews and Christians in late antiquity. This novel approach allows us to visually represent sets of temporal-spatial-contextual relationships, which evolved over hundreds of years, in single snapshots. It also reveals new insights about the relationships between the two communities.