Department of Comparative Religion

Research output

Research output per year 1984 2020 2024

• 97 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

Search results

• 2024

  Ethics, Mindfulness, and Consciousness: A Study of Their Relation in Early Buddhism

  Shulman, E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Mindfulness.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Consciousness 100%
  • Mindfulness 100%
  • Buddhist Practice 50%
  • Sutta 50%
  • Sati 50%

• Measure for Measure

  Meshel, N. S., Dec 2024, In: Jewish Quarterly Review. 114, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Performing the Buddha's Word: The Role of the Bhānaka

  Shulman, E., 2024, In: Numen. 71, 2-3, p. 227-255 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Scholars 100%
  • Liberation 100%
  • Tradition 100%
  • Questioning 100%
  • Entity 100%
  1 Scopus citations

• Sewing mothers: Re-envisioning Jewish-Christian Relations in Sholem Asch’s “On a Carnival Night”

  Abeliovich, R. & Moss, Y., 2024, In: European Journal of Jewish Studies. 18, 1, p. 106-129 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Carnival 100%
  • Jewish-Christian Relations 100%
  • Jesus 100%
  • Sewing 100%
  • Jesus Christ 100%
• 2023

  Added in Translation: Keywords for the Study of Javanese Islamic Texts

  Ricci, R., 2023, In: Philological Encounters. 34, 1, p. 1-24 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Contemporary 100%
  • Islamic 100%
  • Exceptions 100%
  • Raymond Williams 100%
  • Prophet Muhammad 100%
  1 Scopus citations

• Awkward History, Awkward Theory

  MacCormack, I., 2023, In: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. 36, 1, p. 63-71 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Freemasons 100%
  • Ritual 100%
  • Americans 100%
  • Ritual Practice 100%
  • Rite 50%

• Clarifying and Advancing the Play of Formulas: A Response to Bhikkhu Anālayo

  Shulman, E., 1 Dec 2023, In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST THOUGHT CULTURE. 33, 2, p. 257-289 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Buddhist 100%
  • Buddha 100%
  • Discourse 100%
  • Specific Point 33%
  • Textual Analysis 33%

• Discussing the Discipline Sect, Sectarian, Sectarianism: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of an Analytical Category in the Study of Western Religions

  Moss, Y., 1 Sep 2023, In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 91, 3, p. 561-580 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sectarianism 100%
  • Derivative Term 50%
  • Roman Antiquity 50%
  • Sociological Turn 50%
  • Roman antiquity 33%
  1 Scopus citations

• Early Buddhist Wisdom Literature: The “Book with Verses” (Sagāthāvagga) of the Saṃyutta nikāya

  Shulman, E., Oct 2023, In: Religions. 14, 10, 1322.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • King 100%
  • Wisdom Literature 100%
  • Buddhist Wisdom 100%
  • Poetry 100%
  • Wisdom literature 100%
  2 Scopus citations

• Encountering goddesses in late antiquity: notes on metamorphoses of mythic figures in religious storytelling

  Kiperwasser, R. & Ruzer, S., 2023, In: Journal of Late Antique Religion and Culture. 17, p. 1-16 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Judaism 100%
  • Deity 100%
  • Late antiquity 100%
  • Goddess 100%
  • Storytelling 100%

• Historical and Political Reflections on the Jewish-Christian Dialogue

  Kampling, R. & Ben Johanan, K., 2023, In: European Judaism. 56, 2, p. 36-46 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Jewish-Christian Dialogue 100%
  • Political Reflection 100%
  • Historical Reflection 100%
  • Political Reflections 100%
  • Judaism 100%

• History for the future: politics and aesthetics in the fifth Dalai Lama's cuckoo's song

  MacCormack, I., 18 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Tibetan Literature. 2, 2, p. 5-38 34 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Literary Historiography 100%
  • Political Subject 100%
  • Political Acts 100%

• Mediating the maulid: Interlinear translations of the Maulid Syaraf al-Anām across the Indonesian-Malay world

  Ricci, R., 2023, In: Indonesia and the Malay World. 51, 150, p. 143-164 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Patani 100%
  • Aceh 66%
  • 18th-19th Centuries 66%
  • Southern Thailand 66%
  2 Scopus citations

• Ölbäume, Brüder und Bindestriche: Die Entwicklung christlich-jüdischer Beziehungen im Spiegel ihrer Metaphern

  Ben-Johanan, K., 1 Apr 2023, In: Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur. 17, 1, p. 43-54 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

• Response to Reviewers: Karma Ben-Johanan’s "Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II"

  Ben-Johanan, K., 6 Oct 2023, In: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations. 18, 1, p. 1-9 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Solomon and Kitovras Redux: regarding source criticism of "Palaea Interpretata"

  Kiperwasser, R., 2023, In: Henoch. 45, 1, p. 121-139 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Solving the Ninth-Century West Syrian Synoptic Problem

  Moss, Y. & Ruani, F., Jul 2023, In: Journal of the American Oriental Society. 143, 3, p. 581-606 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Synoptic problem 100%
  • Syriac Orthodox Church 50%
  • Northern Iraq 50%
  • Three-pronged Approach 50%
  • Heretics 50%

• Two models for pollution, part A: from Leviticus to Late Second Temple literature

  Meshel, N. S. & Mali, H., 2023, In: Jewish Studies Quarterly. 30, 2, p. 109-137 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Literature 100%
  • Second Temple 100%
  • Leviticus 100%
  • Pollution 100%
  • Second Temple Literature 100%

• Two Models for Pollution, Part B: From Qumran to Qirqisani, from the Mishnah to Maimonides

  Mali, H. & Meshel, N. S., 2023, In: Jewish Studies Quarterly. 30, 3, p. 235-258 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Exposition 100%
  • Qumran 100%
  • Maimonides 100%
  • Pollution 100%
  • Mishnah 100%

• העצמות היבשות, במהופך

  ⁨בן יוחנן, כ.⁩, 2023, In: הו: כתב עת לספרות. 26, p. 48-55 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• לקרוא בין השיטין: מבט מאינדונזיה

  ⁨ריצ'י, ר.⁩, 2023, In: איגרת האקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים. 45, p. 72-79 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

• מתנות כהונה, מצוות התורה ורז נהיה: צירופים חדשים וקריאות חדשות בחכמת רז נהיה

  Translated title of the contribution: Priestly Dues, Torah C0mmandments,and Raz Nihyeh: New Joins and Readings in Instruction⁨אפרתי, ש.⁩, 2023, In: מגילות. טז, p. 51-83 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• קתוליות, מודרניות וחילון: [ריאיון]

  ⁨מור, י.⁩ & ⁨בן יוחנן, כ.⁩, 2023, In: רליגיה. ו, p. 188-205 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• „Kein Kommentar“: Dialog, Polemik und die Anonymisierung des Messias in den zeitgenössischen jüdisch-christlichen Beziehungen

  Ben Johanan, K., 31 Aug 2023, In: Kirche und Israel; Neukirchener theologische Zeitschrift. 38, 1, p. 24-35 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2022

  Chatting with God and the Benefit of the Doubt

  Kiperwasser, R., 2022, In: Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte. 23, 1, p. 189-203 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  1 Scopus citations

• The mortality of the Dalai Lama and its scriptural sources: more on Tibetan political theology

  Maccormack, I., 2022, In: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. 45, p. 205-251 47 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Desi 100%
  • Political Theology 100%
  • Tibet 100%
  • Dalai Lama 100%
  • Tibetan 100%

• The Play of Formulas in the Early Buddhist Discourses

  Shulman, E., Sep 2022, In: Journal of Indian Philosophy. 50, 4, p. 557-580 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Buddhist 100%
  • Buddha 100%
  • Discourse 100%
  • Historical Context 50%
  • Life Events 50%
  3 Scopus citations

• VESSELS IN THE DESERT: THE IMAGERY OF SEAFARING AND SHIPWRECK IN THE QURʾĀN

  Koloska, H., 2022, In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 2022, 53, p. 93-134 42 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Shipwreck 100%
  • Hans Blumenberg 50%
  • Sea Trade 50%
  • Sea Storms 50%
  • Ocean Voyage 50%
• 2021

  Canonical Belief Narratives of the Buddha: Folklore and Religion in the Early Buddhist Discourses

  Shulman, E., 2021, In: Narrative Culture. 8, 2, p. 187-217 31 p., 3.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Embodied transcendence: the buddha’s body in the pāli nikāyas

  Shulman, E., Mar 2021, In: Religions. 12, 3, p. 1-17 17 p., 179.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Liberation 100%
  • Buddha 100%
  • Tradition 40%
  • Meditation 25%
  • Psychological Changes 25%
  6 Scopus citations

• Prophets, pegon, and piety The Javanese Layang Ambiya

  Ricci, R., 2021, In: Wacana. 22, 3, p. 617-630 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Prophets 100%
  • Piety 100%
  • Prophet 100%
  • Milieu 50%
  • Java 50%
  1 Scopus citations

• Telling stories of seas, islands, and ships: A Sri Lankan Malay perspective

  Ricci, R., Feb 2021, In: Positions. 29, 1, p. 203-224 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  2 Scopus citations

• TOO MUCH in the SUN: INTENTIONAL AMBIGUITY in the SAMSON NARRATIVE

  Meshel, N. S., 2021, In: Hebrew Studies. 62, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Narrative 100%
  • Conception 100%
  • Miraculous 100%
  • Ideological Values 100%
  • SAMSON 100%
  2 Scopus citations
• 2020

  Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon

  Ricci, R., 27 Oct 2020, In: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

• From Contradiction to Paradox: A New Perspective on Galatians 3, 28

  Moss, Y., 2020, In: Marriage, Families Spirituality. 26, 1, p. 26-40 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Studying religions in Jerusalem today

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B., 1 Sep 2020, In: Annali di Scienze Religiose. 13, p. 209-218 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Divinity of the Dalai Lama and its Scriptural Sources: A Study in Tibetan Political Theology

  Maccormack, I., 2020, In: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. 43, p. 81-127 47 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Divinity 100%
  • Political Theology 100%
  • Tibet 100%
  • Dalai Lama 100%
  • Tibetan 100%

• Towards an abrahamic religion: Developments in later meccan suras. Part I: Strategies of argumentation and interpretation

  Koloska, H., Jun 2020, In: Journal of Qur'anic Studies. 22, 2, p. 33-59 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  1 Scopus citations

• Towards an abrahamic religion: Developments in later meccan suras. Part II: Abraham, local heritage, and developments in liturgy and ethics

  Koloska, H., Oct 2020, In: Journal of Qur'anic Studies. 22, 3, p. 102-120 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2019

  Aśvaghoṣa’s Viśeṣaka: The Saundarananda and Its Pāli “Equivalents”

  Shulman, E., 15 Apr 2019, In: Journal of Indian Philosophy. 47, 2, p. 235-256 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Saundarananda 100%
  • Specific Intellectual 33%
  • Specific intellectual 33%
  3 Scopus citations

• Looking for Samatha and Vipassanā in the Early Suttas: What are the Texts?

  Shulman, E., 2019, In: The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies. 20, p. 95-141 47 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Sea Voyages Tales in Conversation with the Jonah Story: Intertextuality and the Art of Narrative Bricolage

  Kiperwasser, R. & Ruzer, S., Dec 2019, In: Journeys-the International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. 20, 2, p. 39-57 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2018

  Contemplating the buddha in the jātakas

  Shulman, E., 2018, In: Religions of South Asia. 12, 1, p. 9-33 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Buddha 100%
  • Divine foreknowledge 50%
  • Omniscience 50%
  • Action 33%
  • Framework 16%
  5 Scopus citations

• Hermeneutics and the logic of ritual

  Meshel, N. S., 2018, In: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel. 7, 4, p. 466-482 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• קונטרס פרק חלק ופרקי מגילה, ב: מסורת נוסח ייחודית של פרק 'מגילה נקראת' והערות על התהוות נוסח התלמוד

  ⁨אפרתי, ש.⁩, 2018, In: תרביץ: רבעון למדעי היהדות. 85, 2, p. 233-291 59 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2017

  " A Religion Assembled from Many Religions": a Syncretizing Characterization of Islam attributed to Cyril of Alexandria

  Moss, Y., 2017, In: Henoch. 39, 2, p. 287-305 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Monastic Hybridity and Anti-Exegetical Discourse: From Philoxenus of Mabbug to Dadisho Qatraya

  Bitton-Ashkelony, B., 2017, In: Studia Patristica. 19, p. 413-433

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Polyvalent philosophy and soteriology in early buddhism

  Shulman, E., Jul 2017, In: Philosophy East and West. 67, 3, p. 864-886 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  5 Scopus citations

• אירוניה דרמטית וכפל משמעות בספר איוב

  ⁨משל, נ.⁩, 2017, In: שנתון לחקר המקרא והמזרח הקדום. כה, p. 107-139 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• קונטרס פרק חלק ופרקי מגילה, א: מסורת נוסח ייחודית של פרק חלק

  ⁨אפרתי, ש.⁩, 2017, In: תרביץ: רבעון למדעי היהדות. 85, 1, p. 65-144 80 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review