Text Box: Martin Jacobs                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                                          

 

                                           

Associate Professor of Rabbinic Studies,

& Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies

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Department of Asian & Near Eastern

Languages &Literatures,

& Program in Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies

 

Campus Box 1111

St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

E-mail: mjacobs AT artsci.wustl.edu

 

 

Martin Jacobs’ Research Interests

 

·       Rabbinic literature and culture from late antiquity to the Middle Ages

·       Jewish historiography in medieval and early-modern times

·       Medieval Jewish and Islamic travel literature

·        Jewish-Muslim Encounters

·       Interreligious Polemics

 

Text Box: “Due to my rich research and teaching experiences in different academic and cultural contexts, I am committed to spanning cultural divides, such as those between Jewish, Roman, Islamic, and Christian civilizations, which are often reduplicated by modern disciplinary boundaries. I have developed an appreciation for mixed-method and interdisciplinary approaches, and am convinced that, in the long run, ideas rooted in different subject areas can be cross-pollinated to yield new approaches and insights. “Thus my research interests span Jewish history and thought in a broad sense, from the emergence of classical rabbinic Judaism in first-century Roman Palestine through the Jewish encounter with Islamic civilization in medieval and early-modern times – in any case, the common differentiation among these periods does not make too much sense when it comes to Jewish history and literature. “While the foundation of my research was laid in late antiquity, I later underwent a process similarly made by classical historians who become more and more fascinated with the Middle Ages. Now I feel that my solid basis in rabbinics gives me the necessary tools to better understand medieval and early-modern Jewish authors who largely drew on and reappropriated classical Jewish literature.”

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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