Room 6603, The Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Office hours: Monday, 12:00-14:00
brouria.bitton-ashkelony@mail.huji.ac.il
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony is Martin Buber Chair in Comparative Religion, Faculty of Humanities. As a historian of late antique Eastern Christianities she inquiries into and interprets the delicate balance of continuity and transformation that defines a historical Christian self-identity. She seeks to discern the dynamics of change, continuity, and rupture in religious behavior and thought within Christian and non-Christian traditions alike; to reveal their effects on institutional and personal religion in late antique Eastern Christianities; and to seize the particularity of the period through the lens of three major religious and social phenomena: pilgrimage, monasticism, and prayer in Greek and Syriac sources.
Among her publications are Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage Series 38 (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2005); with A. Kofsky, The Monastic School of Gaza. Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Series 78 (Leiden: Brill, 2006); 'The Ladder of Prayer and the Ship of Stirrings': The Praying Self in Late Antique East Syrian Christianity (Leuven: Peeters, 2019). Among her recent co-editing books are Patristic Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015); Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th centuries (London and New York: Routledge, 2017); Origeniana Duodecima: Origen Legacy in the Holy Land (Leuven: Peeters, 2019).