The Jewish Middle Ages

Carol Bakhos is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and of Study of Religion at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the author of iiThe Family of Abraham (2014) and Ishmael on the Border (2006) and coeditor with Michael Cook of Islam and Its Past (2017). Since 2012 she has served as Chair of the Study of Religion program and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA.

Gerhard Langer is a professor at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna. Langer is a member of the interdisciplinary research center Religion and Transformation and Vice-Chair of the Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion. He is the author of Midrasch (2016) and Judentum für Dummies (2022).