Judaism and Christianity, sister religions which grew up side-by-side in the Roman Empire, often had to define themselves as opposed to the other. They shared the Bible as a basic text, and shared some religious practices, traditions, and even stories – but diverged over so much else.

Join Dr. Michael Bar-Asher Siegal, author of two books on the subject, including the brand-new Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture, as we use the rich collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to explore this relationship. We will look at how women, the body, and wine are used and portrayed in ancient works of art, and how these relate to Jewish texts and practices as well.

Fee: $35 - Includes admission, tour and multimedia files and materials.

We will meet at 10:45 on the Ground floor at the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education. Enter through plaza entrance (wheelchair accessible) at 81st street.

Space on the tour is very limited. We will maintain an active waiting list once registration has closed.

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal is a scholar of rabbinic Judaism. Her work focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian interactions in the ancient world, and compares between Early Christian and rabbinic sources. Her first book, Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2013, winner of the 2014 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award) compared between Christian monastic and rabbinic sources. Her latest book Jewish – Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretics Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud focuses on heretics stories in the Babylonian Talmud. She is an elected member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences and holds the Rosen Family Career Development Chair in Judaic Studies at The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.