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Saar, Dr Ortal-Paz

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Position: Lecturer/ProfessorDepartment of History and Art History (Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen), Universiteit Utrecht (University of Utrecht)
Dep. Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis (Department of History and Art History)
Drift 10
Utrecht
3512 BS
Netherlands
https://www.uu.nl/staff/OPSaar

Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:

2. History of the Jewish People: R
11: Late Antiquity: R
12: Medieval: R
13: Early Modern: R
17: Archaeology: R
18: Epigraphy: R
3. Religion and Religious Movements: R
31: Comparative Religion: R
32: Liturgy and prayer: R
4. Jewish Thought and Philosophy: R
36: Jewish Mysticism: R
5. Rabbinic Literature: R
39: Medieval: R
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): R
43: Medieval (including scientific, poetry, Genizah studies): R
44: Early modern (including scientific, poetry): R
9. Contemporary Studies: R
67: Anthropology, Ethnography and Folklore: R
71: Interfaith studies (including Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish-Muslim relations): R
74: Gender studies (including Women in Judaism, Feminism): R
11. Digital Humanities: R
86: Digital humanities: R

Other subjects:
Jewish magic (late-antique and medieval): Research
Jewish diasporic identity: Research

Description

Ortal-Paz Saar researches religious studies and Jewish cultural history. She is particularly interested in portraying the interaction between different religious traditions. Previously focusing on ancient and medieval magic and rituals, she is currently researching Jewish funerary culture, and completing a monograph titled Lives of Jews in Italy: The Prism of Funerary Inscriptions. Additionally, Ortal-Paz is developing a digital humanities international project titled PEACE: Portal of Epigraphy, Archaeology, Conservation and Education on Jewish Funerary Culture (https://peace.sites.uu.nl/)

Previous publications by Ortal-Paz Saar include the monograph Jewish Love Magic: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017), and the volume co-authored with Siam Bhayro, James Nathan Ford, and Dan Levene Aramaic Magic Bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018). For a full list of publications see her academia.edu webpage.

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