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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.

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.

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.

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

This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (third to seventh century C.E.), providing cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological app... Read More about The Routledge Handbook of 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.

Health as a Jewish National Ideal in Early Zionist Writings (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Health as a Jewish National Ideal in Early Zionist Writings. In C. Hezser (Ed.), Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice (208-230). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541474_011

Physical Strength and Weakness as Means of Social Stratification in Palestinian Rabbinic Discourse of Late Antiquity (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Physical Strength and Weakness as Means of Social Stratification in Palestinian Rabbinic Discourse of Late Antiquity. In C. Hezser (Ed.), Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice (87-106). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541474_006

Introduction: The Significance of Health in Jewish History, Culture, and Society (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Introduction: The Significance of Health in Jewish History, Culture, and Society. In C. Hezser (Ed.), Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice (1-22). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541474_002

Health and Hellenism: Philo of Alexandria ’s Discourse on Health in the Context of Greek Philosophy and Hippocratic Medicine (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Health and Hellenism: Philo of Alexandria ’s Discourse on Health in the Context of Greek Philosophy and Hippocratic Medicine. In C. Hezser (Ed.), Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice (43-68). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541474_004

Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice (2023)
Book
Hezser, C. (Ed.). (2023). Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004541474

The contributions in Jews and Health: Tradition, History, Practice examine the significance of the preservation of physical, mental, and spiritual health in the Jewish tradition and in Jewish societies from ancient to modern times from multiple thema... Read More about Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice.

Access to religious knowledge in ancient Babylonia (2021)
Book Chapter
George, A. (2021). Access to religious knowledge in ancient Babylonia. In C. Hezser, & D. Edelman (Eds.), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity (20-35). Equinox. https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.37990

This paper will consider what constituted religious knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia and examine the means by which it was transmitted there. It will examine whether ordinary people had any access to state-sponsored religion and religious knowledge a... Read More about Access to religious knowledge in ancient Babylonia.

Public Lamentation in Ancient Mesopotamia (2021)
Book Chapter
Mirelman, S. (2021). Public Lamentation in Ancient Mesopotamia. In D. Edelman, & C. Hezser (Eds.), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity (36-57). Equinox

The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity (2021)
Book
Hezser, C., & Edelman, D. (Eds.). (2021). The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity. Equinox

Ancient Mesopotamian, biblical, rabbinic, and Christian literature was created and transmitted by the intellectual elite and therefore presents their world views and perspectives. This volume investigates for the first time whether and to what extent... Read More about The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity.

Interaction between Rabbis and Non-Rabbinic Jews in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity (2021)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2021). Interaction between Rabbis and Non-Rabbinic Jews in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity. In C. Hezser, & D. Edelman (Eds.), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity (145-165). Equinox. https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.37995

Palestinian rabbinic literature mostly transmits traditions about interactions among rabbis and rabbis and their students. Nevertheless, in some social contexts rabbis are said to have met laypeople: rabbis were invited by wealthy householders; they... Read More about Interaction between Rabbis and Non-Rabbinic Jews in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity.

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2021). Introduction. In C. Hezser, & D. Edelman (Eds.), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity (1-18). Equinox. https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.41938

'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.

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)..

'For the Lord God is a Sun and a Shield' (Ps. 84:12): Sun Symbolism in Hellenistic Jewish Literature and in Amoraic Midrashim (2016)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2016). 'For the Lord God is a Sun and a Shield' (Ps. 84:12): Sun Symbolism in Hellenistic Jewish Literature and in Amoraic Midrashim. In U. Leibner, & C. Hezser (Eds.), Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context (213-236). Mohr Siebeck

"Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context: An Introductory Essay" (2016)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C., & Leibner, U. (2016). "Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context: An Introductory Essay". In U. Leibner, & C. Hezser (Eds.), Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context (1-23). Mohr Siebeck

Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context (2016)
Book
Leibner, U., & Hezser, C. (Eds.). (2016). Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context. Mohr Siebeck. https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-154389-0