Gil Klein


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Dr. Gil P. Klein
Assistant Professor of Theological Studies

Department of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
1 LMU Drive, Suite 3700
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659,
USA
gil.klein@lmu.edu

Academic Background
B.Arch., Bezalel Academy, 1998;
M. Phil., Cambridge University, 2003;
Ph.D., Cambridge University, 2007

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Current Areas of Research
Dr. Klein specializes in the study of late antique rabbinic Judaism in correspondence with the discipline of architectural history and theory.
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Courses Currently Teaching
Dr. Klein will be teaching the following courses in Fall 2011:
THST 381.1: Contemporary Judaism in Historical Context
THST 398.2: SS: Introduction to Judaism

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Selected Publications 

  • 'Non-Canonical Towns: Representation of Urban Paradigms in Talmudic Understanding of the Jewish City,' Studie Rosenthaliana 40 (2008) 231-263.
  • 'The Topography of Symbol: Between Late Antique and Modern Jewish Understanding of Cities,' Zeischrift fur Religions and Geistesgeschichte 58, 1 (2006) 16-28.
  • 'Oral Towns: Rabbinic Discourse and the Understanding of the Late Antique Jewish City," chapter in Imagining the City - vol. 2: The Politics of Urban Space, edited by Christian Emden, Catherine Keen, and David Midgley, Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006. 27-48.

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