Gil P. Klein
Associate Professor of Theological Studies | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
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 (3)
Cambridge University: Ph.D., 2007
Cambridge University: M.Phil., 2003
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design: B.Arch, 1998
Areas of Expertise (5)
Rabbinic Judaism
Architectural History
Talmud and Midrash
Sacred Space
Roman Cities
Links (4)
Courses (6)
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 (6)
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.
