The Digital Atlas of Jewish Presence in Antiquity
The Digital Atlas of Jewish Presence in Antiquity is meant to map a variety of sources that attest to Jewish presence in the world of antiquity. The time period covered by the project begins in the fourth century BCE, with Alexander’s conquests, and ends with the Muslim conquests of the seventh century CE.
The Atlas integrates five types of sources: Rabbinic literature, Second Temple Jewish literature, classical (Greco-Roman) literature, Christian literature, and archaeological findings of various types.
Each source and finding is characterized according to specific parameters and plotted with GIS software that enables searches in all sources and findings.
Our Team
Prof. Eyal Ben Eliyahu - Head of the project
Head of the Mapping of the Ancient Jewish World Project.
His field of study is the perception of the space of the people of the Second Temple period and the Roman Byzantine period.
Deals, among other things, with the boundaries of the Land of Israel in the Jewish consciousness in the days of the Second Temple and in the Mishnah and Talmudic period and in the territorial component of Jewish identity in antiquity,
The status of the holy places in the Jewish consciousness in the face of the Christian perceptions of the period.
Sarah Maguire - Research assistant
Master's student in the Department of General History, research assistant in the Jewish Atlas project.
