CSoC Conference 2026 - Panel V - Between the Lines:

Intra-Religious Disputes and Divisions Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters Annual International Conference Panel V - Between the Lines: How Rereading Sources Reveals Internal Plurality, Disagreements, and Historical Layers Chair: Judith Weiss, CSoC, Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University Ariel Seri Levi, CSoC, Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University - “Show Me, I Pray, Your Glory”: Disputes over Seeing God in the Sources of the Pentateuch Serge Ruzer, Department of Comparative Religion and Center for the Study of Christianity at the Hebrew University - Adepts of Paul and the Epistle of James: The Nature of Early Second Century Disagreement Miriam Goldstein, Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University - Between Preservation and Polemic: Variant Exegetical Views in 10th century Baghdad, as represented in Yaaqub al-Qirqisani’s Book of Gardens and Parks (Kitab al-Riyad wal-Hada’iq) Gal Sofer, CSoC, Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University - The Call is Coming from Inside the Chapel: Superfluitas Religionis and Giotto’s Infidelitas as Internal Critique