Avraham YoskovichJerome and Lorraine Aresty Visiting Scholar (Spring 2023)

Avraham Yoskovich is a scholar of Talmudic literature, Babylonian Geonic literature of the early-Islamic period, and the history of late antiquity. His interests include apostasy in late antiquity, interreligious interactions, and the history of Jewish law. He has been a post-doctoral fellow in the Literary Lab of the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, as well as a researcher for ALMA (An Open Atlas of the Jewish World in Antiquity), a project of the digital humanities laboratory in the Department of Israeli History at the University of Haifa. He also leads tours in Israel, which focus on Israeli history and culture.


January/February Mini-Course - "A Stranger to My Brothers": Who and What were Apostates in Ancient Judaism

February Faculty Seminar - Responses to Apostasy: A Comparative Examination of Syriac-Christian and Jewish Babylonian Attitudes in the Early Islamic Period