Research Projects

 

 

 

·               Collective Identity - Jewish and Christian Liturgy

       · Workshops on Jewish and Christian Liturgy

       First workshop, Neve Ilan, Israel, February 2006 (click here for further information)

       Second workshop, Neve Ilan, Israel, October 2007 (click here for further information)

       Third workshop (in preparation, Beersheva, February 2009)

       · THALES (Thesaurus Antiquorum Lectionariorum Ecclesiae Synagogaeque).

       A database of ancient Jewish and Christian lectionaries. (click here for further information)

       · Festivals and the Construction of Jewish and Christian Identities

       “A Christian List of Festivals in Toledot Yeshu: Polemics as Indication for Interaction” (accepted for publication by Harvard Theological Review) (24 pages).

       “Interaction et différenciation. Quelques pensées sur les rôles des fêtes juives, chrétiennes (et ‘païennens’)” in: N. Belayche & J.-D. Dubois (eds.), Cohabitations et contacts religieux ((Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes.Sciences religieuses, to be published in 2009) (16 pages).

       “Parody and Polemics on Pentecost: Acts 2 and Talmud Yerushalmi 37c“ in Albert Gerhards and Clemens Leonhard (eds.), Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship: New Insights into its History and Interaction. (Jewish and Christian Perspectives 15; Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 279-293.

       “Zur Rezeption Jom Kippurs im antiken Christentum,” in: A. Gerhards and H.H. Henrix (eds.), Dialog oder Monolog? Zur liturgischen Beziehung zwischen Judentum und Christentum (Quaestiones Disputatae 208; Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Herder, 2004, pp. 167-183).

       “‘Christians’ Celebrating ‘Jewish’ Festivals of Autumn,” in: Peter J. Tomson and Doris Lambers-Petry (eds.), The Image of the Judaeo-Christians in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature: Papers Delivered at the Colloquium of the Institutum Iudaicum, Brussels 18-19 November, 2001 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 158; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003; pp. 53-73).

       “Whose Fast Is It? The Ember Day of September and Yom Kippur,” Adam H. Becker and Annette Reed (eds.), The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 95; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003; pp. 225-248).

       “The Christian Exegesis of the Scapegoat between Jews and Pagans,” in Albert I. Baumgarten (ed.), Sacrifice in Religious Experience (Studies in the History of Religions [Numen Book Series] 93; Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 2002), pp. 207-232.

       “The Biblical Yom Kippur, the Jewish Fast of the Day of Atonement and the Church Fathers” M.F. Wiles, E.J. Yarnold (eds.), Studia Patristica 34 (Leuven: Peeters, 2001), pp. 493-502.

       “Yom Kippur in the Apocalyptic Imaginaire and the Roots of Jesus’ High Priesthood: Yom Kippur in Zechariah 3, 1 Enoch 10, 11QMelkizedeq, Hebrews and the Apocalypse of Abraham 13,” in Jan Assmann and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Transformations of the Inner Self in Ancient Religions (Studies in the History of Religions [Numen Book Series] 83; Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 1999), pp. 349-366.

       "On Trees, Waves and Cytokinesis: Shifting Paradigms in Early (and Modern) Jewish-Christian Relations" in: M. Poorthuis & J. Schwartz (eds.), Isolation, Independence, Syncretism, Dialogue: Models of Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in Past and Present (Jewish and Christian Perspectives; Leiden : Brill, 2008), pp. 127-139.

        The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity. The Day of Atonement from the Second Temple to the Fifth Century. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 163; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003; pp. XX, 445).

 

·               Collective Identity - Ancient Jewish and Christian Libraries

       "On Trees, Waves and Cytokinesis: Shifting Paradigms in Early (and Modern) Jewish-Christian Relations" in: M. Poorthuis & J. Schwartz (eds.), Isolation, Independence, Syncretism, Dialogue: Models of Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in Past and Present (Jewish and Christian Perspectives; Leiden : Brill, 2008), pp. 127-139.

      “Weighing the Parts: A Papyrological Perspective on the Parting of the Ways“ Novum Testamentum 50/4 (2008) 19 pages (in press).

      “Canonization – a Non-Linear Process? Observing the Process of Canonization through the Christian (and Jewish) Papyri from Egypt“ Zeitschrift fuer antikes Christentum 12 (2008) 229-250 (forthcoming).

      “ קנוניזציה כתהליך בלתי ליניארי? מבט על הפפירוסים הנוצריים (והיהודיים) ממצרים“ invited by the Scholion Canonization Group (28 pages) (in press)

       “Old Caves and Young Caves: A Statistical Reevaluation of a Qumran Consensus,” Dead Sea Discoveries 14/3 (2007) 313-333.
[see separate webpage with abstract, possibility to download article, news reports and links to internet discussion]



·               Text Editions and Paleographical Studies

               Mishna Bikkurim: Critical Edition, Translation Commentary

       “A Jewish 'Archontesse' - Remarks on an Epitaph from Byblos” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) (14 pages).

       “Deconstructing the so-called Genesis Apocryphon from Masada (Mas 1m or MasapocrGen)" accepted by Revue de Qumrân (11 pages).

      “Paleographical Considerations Regarding 1Q5 (1QDeut b): One or Several Scrolls?”, paper given at the Sixth Meeting of the International Organization of Qumran Studies: "Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: Reconsidering the Cave 1 Texts Sixty Years after Their Discovery, Ljubljana, Slowenia, July 16-18, 2007, accepted for publication (11 pages).

       “Two Chronological Texts from an Armenian Manuscript (M451),” Le Muséon 115 (2002) 319-337. (Together with Yoav Loeff).

 

 

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