How did the religious landscape of the ancient and medieval Near East transform from a shared environment into distinct, competing traditions? This program explores the formative centuries of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, Islam, and Karaism began to chart their own "divergent paths". We will examine the inter-religious friction and intellectual cross-pollination that defined these movements. From the Karaite challenge to Rabbinic auth... Read more

How did the religious landscape of the ancient and medieval Near East transform from a shared environment into distinct, competing traditions? This program explores the formative centuries of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, Islam, and Karaism began to chart their own "divergent paths". We will examine the inter-religious friction and intellectual cross-pollination that defined these movements. From the Karaite challenge to Rabbinic auth... Read more

How did the religious landscape of the ancient and medieval Near East transform from a shared environment into distinct, competing traditions? This program explores the formative centuries of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, Islam, and Karaism began to chart their own "divergent paths". We will examine the inter-religious friction and intellectual cross-pollination that defined these movements. From the Karaite challenge to Rabbinic auth... Read more

How did the religious landscape of the ancient and medieval Near East transform from a shared environment into distinct, competing traditions? This program explores the formative centuries of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, Islam, and Karaism began to chart their own "divergent paths". We will examine the inter-religious friction and intellectual cross-pollination that defined these movements. From the Karaite challenge to Rabbinic auth... Read more

How did the religious landscape of the ancient and medieval Near East transform from a shared environment into distinct, competing traditions? This program explores the formative centuries of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, Islam, and Karaism began to chart their own "divergent paths". We will examine the inter-religious friction and intellectual cross-pollination that defined these movements. From the Karaite challenge to Rabbinic auth... Read more

How did the religious landscape of the ancient and medieval Near East transform from a shared environment into distinct, competing traditions? This program explores the formative centuries of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, Islam, and Karaism began to chart their own "divergent paths". We will examine the inter-religious friction and intellectual cross-pollination that defined these movements. From the Karaite challenge to Rabbinic auth... Read more