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In this panel, new insights into ongoing questions concerning anti-Christian polemic, polemics around rabbinic authority, the identity and construction of MINIM, and the specific figure of Jesus in midrashic and talmudic sources are examined.
Abraham's Sperm: An Anti-Pauline Polemic in Genesis Rabbah - Noah Benjamin Bickart, John Carroll University
Polemic or History? Re-Assessing the Babylonian Rabbinic Jesus - Tzipporah Machlah Klapper, Harvard University
The Tannaitic Brother-Enemy: How "Lost Items" Laws Became a Stand-In for Rabbinic Social Exclusion - Benjamin Kamine, Jewish Theological Seminary
The Qur’an and the Oral Torah: Q 5 Sūrat al-Māʾida 44-47 as Critique of Mishna Avot 1:1 - Holger Zellentin, University of Tuebingen, Institute for Jewish Studies