Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Modernity

Alberdina Houtman, Ph.D. (1995), Utrecht University, studied Semitic Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is research fellow in Rabbinical Studies at the University of Kampen and has published a monograph and several articles on early rabbinics. Marcel Poorthuis, studied Judaic studies, theology and philosophy. In 1992 he published his dissertation "Het gelaat van de Messias (The Face of the Messiah)," on the Talmud commentaries of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Together with Chana Safrai he edited the book "The Centrality of Jerusalem" (Kampen,1996). Joshua Schwartz, Ph.D. (1981) in Jewish History, Hebrew University, is Director of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies and Professor of Historical Geography of Ancient Israel at Bar-Ilan. He has published extensively on the historical geography of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.