Prof. Jacob Ashkenazi

Early Christianity, Society and Religion in Late Antique Levant, Early Monasticism in the Levant, The cult of Saints and the holy places in Palestine, Holy Land Pilgrimage, Early Byzantine Epigraphy

Comparative Religion, The Birth of Christianity. Society, Religion and Landscape in Palestine through the Ages, Inscriptions Speak: Introduction to Epigraphy, Christianity and the Holy Land: The first Millenium.

Dean of the Faculty of Social Studies and Humanities, Member of Appointments Committee, Member of Teaching Committee, Member of the Academic Development Committee.

Selected Publications

1. Ashkenazi, J. “Constructing Monastic Landscapes of Southern Levant: Text and Context in the Letter of the ‘Archimandrites of Arabia’”, Studies in Late Antiquity1 (2023), pp. 75-105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2023.7.1.75
2. Ashkenazi, J. “St. Konon of Pamphylia: Scales of Veneration and Local Identity in Late Antiquity”, Journal of Early Christian Studies3 (2022), pp. 433-462. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2022.0027.
3. Ashkenazi, J. “Family and Religion in Late Antique Rural Levant: Epigraphical Observations”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 215 (2020), pp. 135-146.
4. Ashkenazi, J. “Kerygmatic Landscapes of the Galilee and the Quest for the Historical Jesus”, Early Christianity (EC)3 (2019), pp. 333-359.
5. Ashkenazi, J. “Holy Man Versus Monk – Village and Monastery in the Late Antique Levant: Between Hagiography and Archaeology”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient5 (2014), pp. 745-766. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341363