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'A Place of the Shekinah': Contextualising Isaac of Nineveh's Homily on the Cross in the Religious Cosmography of Late Antique Mesopotamia (2021)
Thesis
Everett, N. J. 'A Place of the Shekinah': Contextualising Isaac of Nineveh's Homily on the Cross in the Religious Cosmography of Late Antique Mesopotamia. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Isaac is often portrayed in scholarly literature as a monk who eschewed controversy. However, this thesis explores the polemical themes with which Isaac engaged. His homily on the cross (II. XI) is influenced by a long tradition of anti-pagan and ant... Read More about 'A Place of the Shekinah': Contextualising Isaac of Nineveh's Homily on the Cross in the Religious Cosmography of Late Antique Mesopotamia.

Review of: Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory. Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019) (2020)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2020). Review of: Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory. Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019). Theologische Literaturzeitung, 145(10), 920-922

Review of: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretical Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019 (2020)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2020). Review of: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretical Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Journal of Jewish Studies, 71(2), 440-443. https://doi.org/10.18647/3471/jjs-2020

Review of: Frauen im antiken Judentum und frühen Christentum, ed. Jörg Frey and Nicole Rupschus, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019 (2020)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2020). Review of: Frauen im antiken Judentum und frühen Christentum, ed. Jörg Frey and Nicole Rupschus, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. Review of biblical literature,

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine (paperback edition). (2020)
Book
Hezser, C. (Ed.). (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine (paperback edition). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199216437.001.0001

This book is a reference compendium on the day-to-day lives of Jews in the land of Israel in Roman times. Ranging from subjects such as clothing and domestic architecture to food and meals, labour and trade, and leisure-time activities, it covers all... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine (paperback edition)..

Recent Research on Travel, Network Theory, and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman Society (300 BCE -- 600 CE) (2020)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2020). Recent Research on Travel, Network Theory, and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman Society (300 BCE -- 600 CE). ירושלים וארץ-ישראל. Yrẇšalayim w-ʾereṣ Yiśraʾel, 2020(12-13), 13-28

Jewish Literacy and Languages in First-Century Roman Palestine (2020)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2020). Jewish Literacy and Languages in First-Century Roman Palestine. Orientalia (Roma), 89(1), 58-77. https://doi.org/10.32060/Orientalia.1.2020.58-77

Torah (Early Reception) (2020)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2020). Torah (Early Reception). In W. Homolka, R. Kampling, A.-J. Levine, C. Markschies, P. Schäfer, & M. Thurner (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Jewish Christian Relations Online. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/ejcro.4416350

Women, Children, and Slaves in Rabbinic Law (2019)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2019). Women, Children, and Slaves in Rabbinic Law. In P. Barmash (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law (489-503). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199392667.013.13

Rabbinic law on women, children, and slaves developed on the basis of biblical law and in the context of the Greco-Roman and Sasanian cultural environments in which Palestinian and Babylonian rabbis lived. The discussions were innovative in their ada... Read More about Women, Children, and Slaves in Rabbinic Law.

From Sinner to Model Ancestor: King David in Post-Biblical Jewish and Christian Literature and Art (2019)
Journal Article
Hezser, C. (2019). From Sinner to Model Ancestor: King David in Post-Biblical Jewish and Christian Literature and Art