The Digital Atlas of Jewish Presence in Antiquity
The digital atlas of the Jewish presence in the ancient world is intended to map the variety of sources and findings that indicate the presence of Jews in the ancient world. The period of time the project deals with begins in the fourth century AD with the conquests of Alexander the Great until the evening conquest in the seventh century AD.
The atlas combines five branches of sources: sage literature, Jewish literature from the Second Temple period, classical literature, Christian literature, and its archaeological finds.
Each source and find is characterized by parameters and mapped with the help of GIS software that allows a search within all the 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.
