Aviad Kleinberg Explained

Aviad Kleinberg
Native Name:אביעד קליינברג
Native Name Lang:he
Birth Date:25 November 1957
Birth Place:Beersheba
Occupation:Israeli historian & President of the Ruppin Academic Center

Aviad Kleinberg (Hebrew: אביעד קליינברג, born November 25, 1957) is an Israeli historian whose academic work focuses on religious phenomena from Late Antiquity to the Reformation.[1]

As of 2023, he is president of the Ruppin Academic Center in Israel.[2]

He is the member of Dan David Prize Board. The award is administered by Tel Aviv University.

Early life and education

Born and raised in Beersheba,[3] Aviad Kleinberg completed his BA in history at Tel Aviv University (1982) and his PhD in medieval studies at the University of Toronto. His doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Brian Stock, studied the making of saintly reputation from the 12th-15th centuries.

Academic career

From 1990 to 2021, he was professor of medieval history at the department of History, Tel Aviv University.[4]

Between 2015 and 2019, he was head of the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies.[5]

Between 2001 and 2021, he was Director of Tel Aviv University Press.[6]

In 2021, he was elected president of the Ruppin Academic Center.

Publishing career

His first book, Prophets in Their Own Country[7] (1992) is based on his thesis. It examines the interaction between would-be saints and their audiences. He argues that sainthood as a social fact is found in the dynamic dialogue between a claimant and his or her interlocutors and is not a personal quality that can be understood outside what he calls "the saintly interaction".[8]

In a later book, Flesh Made Word[9] (2008), he moved from studying live interactions to the role of stories in creating a saintly repertoire. He argued that saints' stories are often used to "domesticate" living saints, by offering an impossibly successful model of sainthood. No saint can live up to the expectations created by hagiography, hence the saint is driven to collaborate with hagiographical creators who can strengthen his or her reputation by making him fit the inflated model. This creates a "debt" that can be used by the producers of stories in their interactions with saintly aspirants. The book also looks at the phenomenon of the tendency of stories to stretch the limits of "orthodox" sainthood.[10] [11]

Other major works include A Guide for the Non Believer (2019)[12] [13] and A Short Guide to the Western Middle Ages (2020).

Kleinberg is a public intellectual who often expresses himself on public issues. For many years he has written a weekly column in "Yedioth Ahronoth", a national newspaper in Israel, and also in haaretz.[14] He also publishes a blog called "Shock hametziut" (Reality Shock).[15]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Samuha . Shahar . Does God have a face? Analysis of the greatest religious paradox of all . 21 December 2021 . . 13 October 2017.
  2. Web site: Prof. Aviad Kleinberg . . 21 December 2021.
  3. Web site: 2021-08-16. Prof. Aviad Kleinberg. 2021-11-21. Dan David Prize. en-US.
  4. Web site: Prof. Aviad Kleinberg . . 21 December 2021.
  5. Web site: Prof. Aviad Kleinberg - Head of the School of History of Tel Aviv University . Tel Aviv University. 21 December 2021.
  6. News: Rosenthal . David . Prof. Aviad Kleinberg has been appointed the new president of the Ruppin Academic Center . 21 December 2021 . . 21 July 2021.
  7. Book: M. Kleinberg . Aviad . Prophets in Their Own Country . . 21 December 2021.
  8. Vauchez . André . Prophets in their own country. Living saints and the making of sainthood in the later Middle Ages. By Aviad M. Kleinberg. . . April 1995 . 46 . 2 . 328–329 . 10.1017/S0022046900011490 . 161773865 . 21 December 2021.
  9. Web site: Search Results for: Aviad Kleinberg Harvard University Press. 2021-11-21. www.hup.harvard.edu.
  10. Trembinski . Donna . Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination, by Aviad Kleinberg . . April 19, 2016 . 44 . 3 . 496–497 . 10.3138/cjh.44.3.496 . 21 December 2021.
  11. Taylor . Anna Lisa . Taylor on Kleinberg, 'Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination' . August 2009 . H-German . 21 December 2021.
  12. Web site: Kleinberg . Aviad . A Guide for the Non Believer . . 21 December 2021.
  13. Book: Kleinberg . Aviad . A Guide for the Non Believer . . 2020 . Aviʻad Ḳlainberg . 9789657241950 . 21 December 2021.
  14. Web site: Aviad Kleinberg . . 21 December 2021.
  15. Web site: "Shock hametziut" (Reality Shock) . 21 December 2021.
  16. Book: M. Kleinberg . Aviad . The Sensual God - How the Senses Make the Almighty Senseless . September 2015 . Columbia University Press . 9780231540247 . 21 December 2021.
  17. Web site: Kleinberg . Aviad . Le Dieu sensible. Bibliothèque des Idées . . 21 December 2021.
  18. Web site: Kleinberg . Aviad . Flesh Made Word - Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination . . 21 December 2021.
  19. Book: Kleinberg . Aviad . Histoires De Saints ; Leur Rôle Dans La Formation De L'occident . . 21 December 2021.
  20. News: Tibon . Amir . 7 Israeli sins according to Aviad Kleinberg . 21 December 2021 . . 3 February 2007.
  21. News: Baram . Nir . The monk and the model . 21 December 2021 . . 21 January 2007.
  22. News: Lev-Ari . Shiri . A new book for Aviad Kleinberg . 21 December 2021 . . 15 January 2007.
  23. News: Redy . Yitzhar . A tour guide to the sin districts . 21 December 2021 . . 19 July 2007.
  24. Web site: Confessions / Augustine Translated from Latin and added an introduction, comments and conclusion Aviad Kleinberg. . . 21 December 2021.
  25. Web site: Kleinberg . Aviad . Resurrection: Israel's First Fifty Years . . 21 December 2021.
  26. Web site: Kleinberg . Aviad . Christianity: A Study of Its History from Its Beginning to the Reformation . . 21 December 2021.

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