Department of Comparative Religion

Research output

Research output per year 1984 2020 2024

• 96 Article
• 92 Chapter
• 54 Comment/Debate
• 44 Book
• 36 More
  • 14 Review article
  • 5 Conference contribution
  • 5 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 4 Catalogue essay
  • 3 Foreword/postscript
  • 3 Editorial
  • 2 Book/Arts/Article review

Research output per year

Research output per year

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• 2024

  Chapter 8

  Ben-Johanan, K., 30 Sep 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) A Documentary History of Jewish-Christian Relations: From Antiquity to the Present Day. Kessler, E. & Wenborn, N. (eds.). Cambridge University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• FROM ORAL DISCOURSE TO WRITTEN DOCUMENTS

  Kiperwasser, R., 1 Jan 2024, The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. Taylor and Francis, p. 249-262 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Written Text 100%
  • Rabbis 100%
  • Written Documents 100%
  • Rabbinic Literature 100%
  • Literary Tradition 100%

• Host and guests: Some features of the eschatological banquet in Rabbinic parables and Gospels

  Kiperwasser, R., 2024, The Power of Parables: Essays on the comparative study of Jewish and Christian parables . Ottenheijm, E., Poorthuis, M. & Merz, A. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 346-366 21 p. (Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; vol. 39).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access

• The Senses in the Qur͗ān

  Koloska, H., 2024, Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 3-26 24 p. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East; vol. 182.2).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Who Invented Writing? Changing Answers to a Rarely Asked Question among Biblical Readers of the First Millennium

  Moss, Y., 2024, Islamic History and Civilization. Bilde, P. G. (ed.). 2 ed. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 573-613 41 p. (Islamic History and Civilization; vol. 502, no. 2).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• הקדמה: אל הזיכרון המצטבר, מעבר לכאן-ועכשיו

  Shulman, E., 2024, הדרך: מה שלימד הבודהה מעבר למיינדפולנס. חיפה: פרדס, p. 9-13 5 p. (עיון. בודהיזם).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2023

  A discourse on kingship from the eighth Karmapa

  Maccormack, I., 2023, Histories of Tibet: essays in honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp. Schaeffer, K., Liang, J. & McGrath, W. (eds.). Boston: Wisdom Publications, p. 513-528 16 p. (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Cross-reference and "Borgesian" slippage in Leviticus 1-5

  Meshel, N. S., 2023, The Pentateuch and Its Readers. Baden, J. S. & Stackert, J. (eds.). Mohr Siebeck, p. 207-236 30 p. (Forschungen zum Alten Testament (FAT)).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Definitions of the Human Body and the Order of Creation in Rabbinic Literature

  Kiperwasser, R., 2023, Brill's Series in Jewish Studies. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 69-86 18 p. (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies; vol. 76).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Introduction

  Ricci, R., Jul 2023, Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature. Leiden: E. J. Brill, p. 1-2 2 p. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde; vol. 316).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access

• Islamic Literary Networks in South and Southeast Asia

  Ricci, R., 31 Dec 2023, Monsoon Asia: A reader on South and Southeast Asia. Henley, D. & Wickramasinghe, N. (eds.). Leiden: Amsterdam University Press, p. 217-231 15 p. (Critical, Connected Histories; vol. 4).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Is There Christian Antisemitism? The History of an Intra-Catholic Debate, 1965–2000

  Ben-Johanan, K., Oct 2023, Antisemitism and the Politics of History. Ury, S. & Miron, G. (eds.). Brandeis University Press, p. 319-336 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Nautical fiction of late antiquity: Jews and christians traveling by sea

  Kiperwasser, R. & Ruzer, S., 4 Oct 2023, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd Century BCE-8th Century CE. de Gruyter, p. 295-311 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Nautical Fiction 100%
  • Liminal Experience 50%
  • Divine Intervention 50%
  • Monstrous 50%
  • Sailors 50%

• Situated Prophethood: Reading the Sĕrat Ambiya in Nineteenth-Century Java

  Ricci, R., Jul 2023, Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature. Leiden: E. J. Brill, p. 149-? (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde; vol. 316).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access
• 2022

  Aramaic Stories of Wandering in the High Seas of Late Antiquity

  Kiperwasser, R. & Ruzer, S., 2022, The Past Through Narratology: New Approaches to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Fafinski, M. & Riemenschneider , J. (eds.). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing , p. 161-177 (Das Mittelalter Beihefte ; vol. 18).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  Open Access

  • Wandering 100%
  • Christian 100%
  • High Seas 100%
  • Late Antiquity 100%
  • Late Antique 100%

• Jewish-Christian relations and their revocable problem of political theology

  Ben Johanan, K., 2022, Contemporary Catholic Approaches to the People, Land, and State of Israel. p. 253-271 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Perfection in late antique Syriac Christianity: From commandments and stillness to wonder

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B., 2022, Reaching for Perfection: Studies on the Means and Goals of Ascetical Practices in an Interreligious Perspective. Verheyden, J., Roskam, G., Heirman, A. & Leemans, J. (eds.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 83-102 (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium ; vol. 329).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The king of demons in the universe of the rabbis

  Kiperwasser, R., 2022, Demons in Early Judaism and Christianity: Characters, Characteristics, and Demonic Exegesis.. Patmore, H. M. & Lössl, J. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 273-293 21 p. (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity ; vol. 113).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Tobit 100%
  • Asmodeus 100%

• World literature and Muslim Southeast Asia

  Ricci, R., 30 Sep 2022, The Routledge Companion to World Literature. 2nd ed. Taylor and Francis, p. 434-441 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  1 Scopus citations

• נזירות ארץ-ישראל

  ⁨ביטון-אשקלוני, ב.⁩ & ⁨קופסקי, א.⁩, 2022, ארץ-ישראל בשלהי העת העתיקה. פטריך, י., ⁨לימור, א.⁩ & ⁨ ניומן, ה.⁩ (eds.). ירושלים: יד יצחק בן צבי, p. חלק ב', 1071-1112 42 p. ( ספריית דוד וימימה יסלזון ).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• על היצירה הספרותית של הנוצרים בארץ-ישראל

  ⁨מוס, י.⁩, 2022, ארץ-ישראל בשלהי העת העתיקה: מבואות ומחקרים. ⁨פטריך, י.⁩, ⁨לימור, א.⁩ & ⁨ניומן, ה.⁩ (eds.). ירושלים: יד יצחק בן צבי, p. חלק א', 259-300

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2021

  Monastic networks in Byzantine Jerusalem

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B., 2021, Jerusalem II: Jerusalem in Roman-Byzantine Times. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, p. 345-361 17 p. (Civitatum Orbis Mediterranei Studia ; vol. 5).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Orality and creativity in early Buddhist discourses

  Shulman, E., 2021, The language of the Sūtras: essays in honor of Luis Gómez. Gummer, N. (ed.). Berkeley, CA : Mangalam Press, p. 187-230 44 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The cure of amnesia and Ars Memoria in Rabbinic texts

  Kiperwasser, R., 2021, Defining Jewish Medicine: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Jewish Cultures and Traditions : Peer-reviewed proceedings of a one-day panel-section at the X. Congress of the European Association of Jewish Studies (EAJS), 24.07.2014, at Sorbonne Université / École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris. Lehmhaus, L. (ed.). Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 119-141 23 p. (Episteme; vol. 8).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Rabbinic 100%
  • Orality 100%
  • rabbinic texts 100%
  • Ars Memoriae 100%
  • Judaism 50%
• 2020

  A Conversion Tale from Java, Indonesia, Anonymous

  Ricci, R., 2020, Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook. Yarbrough, S. & Hurvitz, S. (eds.). 1 ed. University of California Press, p. 326-329 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Islands 100%
  • Local People 50%
  • Wali 50%
  • Sanga 50%
  • wali 50%

• Cleansing the sacred space: The Holy Land and its inhabitants in the pilgrimage narrative of Barsauma

  Kiperwasser, R. & Ruzer, S., 2020, The Wandering Holy Man; the "Life of Barsauma", Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine. Hahn, J. & Menze, V. (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 104-120 17 p. (Transformation of the Classical Heritage; vol. 60).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Narrative technique 100%
  • Christian Formation 100%

• "I am not writing an apology": Samuel Krauss’s "Das Leben Jesu" in context

  Moss, Y., 2020, "Toledot Yeshu" in Context. p. 317-340 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Prophecies and Past Lives of the Sde srid Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho: On Interpretation and Authority in a Tibetan ’Khrungs rabs

  Maccormack, I., 2020, New currents on the Neva River: papers presented at the Fifth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists. Erhard, F. X., Moskaleva, N., Wohjan, D., Forman, J. & Smirnova, M. (eds.). Potsdam: Edition Tethys, p. 316-348 33 p. (Wissenschaft; vol. 3).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• The art of forgetting in Rabbinic narrative

  Kiperwasser, R., 2020, Rabbinic Study Circles: Aspects of Jewish Learning in its Late Antique Context. Hirshman, M. & Satran, D. (eds.). Mohr Siebeck, p. 67-85 19 p. (Studies in Education and Religion in Ancient and Pre-Modern History in the Mediterranean and Its Environs ; vol. 8).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The literature of early eastern monasticism

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B., 1 Jan 2020, The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism. Oxford University Press, p. 66-84 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Literature 100%
  • Late Antique 100%
  • Monasticism 100%
  • Egypt 50%
  • Treatise 50%

• The Poetic Performance of the Praying-Mind: Evagrius Ponticus’ Theory of Prayer and its Legacy in Syriac Christianity

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B., 2020, Théories et pratiques de la prière à la fin de l’Antiquité. Hoffmann, P. & Timotin, A. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 327-344 18 p. (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses; vol. 185).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Versions and perversions of Genesis: Jacob of Edessa, Saadia Gaon, and the falsification of biblical history

  Moss, Y., 2020, Jews and Syriac Christians; Intersections across the First Millennium. p. 207-229 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2019

  Diversity and Its Discontents: An Overview of Minority–Majority Relations in Indonesia

  Fealy, G. & Ricci, R., 2019, Contentious Belonging: The Place of Minorities in Indonesia. Fealy, G. & Ricci, R. (eds.). Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, p. 1-16 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Going West: Migrating Babylonians and the Question of Identity

  Kiperwasser, R., 2019, A Question of Identity: Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of Identity Dynamics in Jewish and Other Contexts. Katz, D. R., Hacham, N., Herman, G. & Sagiv, L. (eds.). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, p. 111-130 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Narrating the Self: Stories about Rabbi Zeira's Encounters in Land of Israel

  Kiperwasser, R., 2019, Self, Self-Fashioning and Individuality in Late Antiquity: New Perspectives . Niehof, M. & Levinson, J. (eds.). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, p. 353-372. (Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Greco-Roman World; vol. 4).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• "Three partners in a person": The metamorphoses of a tradition and the history of an idea

  Kiperwasser, R., 2019, Irano-Judaica VII: Studies relating to Jewish contacts with Persian culture throughout the ages.. Rubanovich , J. & Herman, G. (eds.). Jerusalem : Ben-Zvi Institute, p. 393-437 45 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a "grammar" and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system

  Meshel, N. S., 1 Jan 2019, Language and Religion. de Gruyter, p. 31-56 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Virginity and water: Between the Babylonian Talmud and Iranian myth

  Ilan, T. & Kiperwasser, R., 2019, A Thousand Judgements: Festschrift for Maria Macuch. Durkin-Meisterernst, D., Hintze, A. & Naumann, C. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 193-208 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• “I Trapped You with Guile”: Rationalizing Theology in Late Antiquity

  Moss, Y., 2019, Rationalization in Religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam . Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 103-126 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2018

  Along the frontiers of religion, language and war: Baba Ounus Saldin’s Syair Faid al-Abad

  Ricci, R., 1 Jan 2018, The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History. Taylor and Francis, p. 82-92 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • BabA 100%
  • Religion 100%
  • Frontier 100%
  • Malay Language 50%
  • World History 50%
  1 Scopus citations

• A spindle for Caesar's daughter

  Kiperwasser, R., 2018, Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism: Studies for Tal Ilan at Sixty. Piotrkowski, M., Herman, G. & Doenitz, S. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 229-251 23 p. (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity; vol. 104).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Spindle 100%
  • CAESAR 100%
  • Gender Politics 100%
  • Tradition 100%
  • Narrative 100%

• Discerning Mystagogia and Pedagogia

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B., 2018, Prayer and the transformation of the self in early Christian mystagogy. Van Loon, H., De Nie, G., Op de Coul, M. & Van Egmond, P. (eds.). Leeuven: Peeters, p. xi-xxii (Late antique history and religion ; vol. 18).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Muslim and Javanese in the diaspora: preliminary thoughts about Javanese experiences in colonial Ceylon

  Ricci, R., 2018, Transformation of religions as reflected in Javanese texts. Sugahara, Y. & van der Molen, W. (eds.). Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, p. 160-179 20 p. (Javanese studies; vol. 5).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Narrative bricolage and cultural hybrids in Rabbinic Babylonia: On the narratives of seduction and the Topos of light

  Kiperwasser, R., 2018, The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World. Herman, G. & Rubenstein, J. L. (eds.). Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, p. 23-45 23 p. (Brown Judaic Studies; vol. 362).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• סוורוס מאנטיוכיה: דרשה פג מתוך הדרשות הקתדרליות בעיבודו הסורי של יעקב מאדסה

  ⁨מוס, י.⁩, 2018, מערת האוצרות : אנתולוגיה לספרות סורית משלהי העת העתיקה בתרגום עברי. ⁨ בליניצקי, ב.⁩ & ⁨רוטמן, י.⁩ (eds.). תל אביב: אוניברסיטת תל אביב, p. 95-106 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2017

  From Syria all the Way to Rome: Inatius of Antioch’s Pauline Journey to Christianity

  Moss, Y., 2017, Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, p. 409-421 13 p. (Journeys in the Roman East. Imagined and Real).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Intercessory Prayer and Spiritual Leadership in Late Antique Monastic Culture

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B., 2017, Marriage - Constancy and Change in Togetherness . Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn, A. (ed.). Leeuven: LIT Verlag, p. 140-150 (Schriftenreihe "Symposion"; vol. 15).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Sacrifice and the Temple

  Meshel, N., 2017, The Jewish annotated New Testament: new revised standard version Bible translation. Levine, A.-J. & Brettler, M. Z. (eds.). Second ed. Oxford: Oxford Univerisity Press, p. 658-662

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Theories of prayer in late antiquity: Doubts and practices from Maximos of Tyre to Isaac of Nineveh

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B. & Krueger, D., 2017, Prayer And Worship In Eastern Christianities, 5th To 11th Centuries. BittonAshkelony, B. & Krueger, D. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 10-33 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Doubt 100%
  • Nineveh 100%
  • Late antiquity 100%
  • Prayer 100%
  • Oration 100%
• 2016

  Perfection, Imperfection and Stillness in Late Antique Syriac Christianity

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B., 2016, קום, התהלך בארץ (קובץ בעריכת יוסף פטריך, אורית פלג-ברקת, ארז בן-יוסף). ירושלים: החברה לחקירת ארץ-ישראל ועתיקותיה, p. 234*-227* 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • stillness 100%
  • Stillness 100%
  • Christian Discourse 50%