Peeking over the Fence: A Dialogue about the Fruitful Intersection of Patristics and Judaica

On July 13, 2024, St Vladimir’s Seminary’s Seminary hosted its fourth annual Education Day Online. During the six-hour “Zoomathon,” members of the public joined in as seminary professors and guest scholars discussed topics including Scripture, theology, ethics, inter-Orthodoxy, and more.
In this fifth session, Seminary Associate Professor of Patristics Very Rev. Dr Bogdan Bucur was joined by Dr Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Associate Professor in the Goldstein-Goren department for Jewish Thought and Vice President for Global Engagement at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Together, they led a fascinating discussion on the intersection of the Church Fathers and early Christianity with Jewish thought in sources such as the Talmud.