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The Creation of the Talmud Yerushalmi and Apophthegmata Patrum as Monuments to the Rabbinic and Monastic Movements in Early Byzantine Times (2018)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2018). The Creation of the Talmud Yerushalmi and Apophthegmata Patrum as Monuments to the Rabbinic and Monastic Movements in Early Byzantine Times. Jewish studies quarterly, 25(4), 368-393. https://doi.org/10.1628/jsq-2018-0019

This paper investigates the compilatory processes that led to the creation of the Talmud Yerushalmi and the Apophthegmata Patrum in early Byzantine Palestine. These encyclopaedic works are based on individual oral traditions that emerged from teacher... Read More about The Creation of the Talmud Yerushalmi and Apophthegmata Patrum as Monuments to the Rabbinic and Monastic Movements in Early Byzantine Times.

"Guidelines for the Ideal Way of Life: Rabbinic Halakhah and Hellenistic Practical Ethics" (2018)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2018). "Guidelines for the Ideal Way of Life: Rabbinic Halakhah and Hellenistic Practical Ethics". In M. Satlow (Ed.), Strength to Strength: Essays in Honor of Shaye J.D. Cohen (389-404). Brown Judaic Studies

"Review of: Peter Schäfer, Zwei Götter m Himmel. Gottesvorstellungen in der jüdischen Antike. München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2017". (2018)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2018). "Review of: Peter Schäfer, Zwei Götter m Himmel. Gottesvorstellungen in der jüdischen Antike. München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2017". Journal of Jewish Studies, 69(2), 417-419. https://doi.org/10.18647/3385/JJS-2018

Bild und Kontext. Jüdische und christliche Ikonographie der Spätantike (2018)
Book
Hezser, C. (2018). Bild und Kontext. Jüdische und christliche Ikonographie der Spätantike. Mohr Siebeck. https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-156610-3

Catherine Hezser zeigt, dass sich die jüdische und christliche Kunst der Spätantike in kontinuierlichem Austausch mit und Bezugnahme auf die künstlerischen Ausdrucksweisen und theologischen Ansichten der jeweils anderen religiösen Gemeinschaft befand... Read More about Bild und Kontext. Jüdische und christliche Ikonographie der Spätantike.

Followers, Servants, and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism (2018)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2018). Followers, Servants, and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism. In S. E. Porter, & A. W. Pitts (Eds.), Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement (71-86). Brill

Self-Control in a World Controlled by Others: Palestinian Rabbinic 'Asceticism' in Late Antiquity (2018)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2018). Self-Control in a World Controlled by Others: Palestinian Rabbinic 'Asceticism' in Late Antiquity. Religion in the Roman empire, 4(1), 9-27. https://doi.org/10.1628/rre-2018-0003

The article suggests that asceticism can best be understood as a religious form of self-control, of using one's mind to control one's body. The control of the senses can serve as a category that allows us to compare rabbinic 'ascetic' behaviours with... Read More about Self-Control in a World Controlled by Others: Palestinian Rabbinic 'Asceticism' in Late Antiquity.