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Jews and Slavery (2025)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2025). Jews and Slavery. In C. Cobb, & K. A. Shaner (Eds.), Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts (51-65). William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (1-11). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-1

By focusing on Jews and Judaism in late antiquity, this Handbook fills a gap left by other volumes that deal with early Byzantine Christianity only. Jews interacted and competed with pagans and Christians and experienced a number of significant devel... Read More about Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity.

Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (263-274). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-21

Late antiquity saw the creation of large compilations of centuries of traditional knowledge in Jewish as well as in Roman and Byzantine Christian society. The compilations were meant to preserve knowledge that had gained specific significance in the... Read More about Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies.

Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (171-184). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-14

Late antique rabbis presented themselves as a particularly Jewish type of ancient intellectuals, also represented by Graeco-Roman philosophers, rhetoricians, sophists, and church fathers. Like other scholars, they studied, preserved, developed, and a... Read More about Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual.

Attitudes Torward the Body (2024)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2024). Attitudes Torward the Body. In C. Hezser (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity (216-228). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315280974-17

Jewish attitudes toward the human body differed significantly from Christian attitudes in late antiquity. In contrast to the Christian emphasis on the soul and its survival after death, rabbis insisted that body and soul constituted an inseparable un... Read More about Attitudes Torward the Body.

Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real. In S. Luther, P. B. Hartog, & C. E. Wilde (Eds.), Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences, 3rd c. BCE - 8th c. CE (251-268). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717488-013

This article discusses rabbinic perceptions of space and geography, showing how geographical information in rabbinic writings reflects the “local color” of these writings or rabbinic perceptions of the Land of Israel or other regions. This leads to t... Read More about Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real.

Outer Space in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Outer Space in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature. In E. M. Mazur, & S. MacFarland Taylor (Eds.), Religion and Outer Space (9-24). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003088264-3

Based on Jewish and Christian literature from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Hezser examines the ways in which ancient Jews and Christians imagined outer space, the heavens and their occupants, and space travel, distinguishing between but also li... Read More about Outer Space in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature.

Ermunterung zum Wandern (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Ermunterung zum Wandern. In P. von Gemuenden, A. Merz, & H. Schwier (Eds.), Resonanzen. Gerd Theißen zum 80. Geburtstag (19-23). Gütersloher Verlagshaus

Anti-Semitism, pagan (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Anti-Semitism, pagan. In T. Whitmarsh (Ed.), Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.528

Whether the modern term anti-Semitism, popularized by the German anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the League of Antisemites Wilhelm Marr (1819–1904), is appropriate for antiquity is controversial. Scholars have proposed to use alternative terms s... Read More about Anti-Semitism, pagan.