Why Did Christianity Win? Prof. Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel-Aviv University)

Why Did Christianity Win? A discussion with Prof. Rosen-Zvi.

Professor Ishay Rosen-Zvi serves as the head of the Talmud and late antiquity section and teaches rabbinic literature at Tel Aviv University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Studies.

In 2013 he was elected to the Israel Young Academy of Sciences. He has written on Midrash and Mishnah, as well as on issues of self-formation and collective identity in Second-Temple Judaism and rabbinic literature. Among his publications are:

Demonic Desires: YETZER HARA and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia 2011);
Body and Soul in Ancient Judaism (Modan: Tel Aviv 2012); The Mishnaic Sotah Ritual: Temple Gender and Midrash (Brill: Leiden 2012);
Goy: Israel’s Others and the Birth of the Gentile (with Adi Ophir) (OUP: Oxford 2018; won the Goshen-Goldstein prize for the best book in Jewish Philosophy for the years 2016-2018);
Between Mishnah and Midrash: The Birth of Rabbinic Literature (Open University 2019).

==== Books by Ishay Rosen-Zvi (affiliated links)
Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions)
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Demonic Desires: "Yetzer Hara" and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
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The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and Christianity
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