RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY STAFF AND HONORARY RESEARCH FELLOWS
“The Toledot Yeshu in the Context of Jewish-Muslim Debate” in Peter Schäfer, Michael Meerson and Yaacov Deutsch, eds., Toledot Yeshu (“The Life Story Of Jesus Revisited”) (Mohr Siebeck, 2011).
“Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features in Ancient Jewish Literature", with Rocco Bernasconi, Robert Hayward and Alexander Samely (2010). Online.
Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine, ed. with Martin Goodman (London: British Academy, 2010).
"Meanings, Function and Linguistic Usages of the Term 'Am ha-aretz in the Mishnah", Revue des Études Juives 170: 3-4 (2011), 399-428.
“A Literary Analysis of the Genesis Apocryphon”, Aramaic Studies 9:1 (2011), 139-198.
“Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features in Ancient Jewish Literature", with Philip Alexander, Robert Hayward and Alexander Samely (2010). Online.
"Tannaitic Israel and the Kutim", in N. Belayche and S. C. Mimouni, eds., Entre lignes de partage et territoires de passage: les identités religieuses dans les mondes grec et romain. «Paganismes», «judaïsmes», «christianismes» [Collection de la Revue des Études Juives 47] (Leuven: Peeters, 2009), 365-92.
Writing the Holocaust [ed. with Daniel R. Langton] (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011).
Nazi Labor Camps in Paris (English Edition) (Berghahn Books, 2011).
“André François-Poncet und Deutschland, 1931-1938”, in Frank Bajohr and Christopher Strupp, eds., Fremde Blicke auf das 'Dritte Reich'. Berichte ausländischer Diplomaten über Herrschaft und Gesellschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 (Göttingen:Wallstein Verlag, 2011).
“The Post-Liberation French Administration and the Jews”, in Dalia Ofer, Françoise Shimcha Ouzan and Judy Baumel Schwartz, eds., Holocaust Survivors in Their Countries of Resettlement: Time, Spaces and identities (Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2011).
“Jews and non-Jews in the Aryanization process: Comparison of France and the Slovak State, 1939-1945”, with Eduard Nižňanský, in, Beate Kosmala and Georgi Verbeeck , eds., Facing the Catastrophe (Berg International, 2011).
Yvonne Redgis, Souvenirs d'une rescapée d'Auschwitz (1945) [Survive. Memoir of a Auschwitz survivor(1945)], edited and commented (Paris: Larousse, 2010).
The Golem Returns. From German Romantic Literature to Global Jewish Culture, 1808-2008 (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2011).
Jewish Culture in the Age of Globalization (co-ed. with Sander Gilman). European Review of History (Routledge Journals, 2011).
The ‘Institutions’ of Marriage and Divorce in the Hebrew Bible' in Journal of Semitic Studies LVI/2 (2011), 221-251.
Agunah: The Manchester Analysis (Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications, 2011).
“Jewish Approaches to Law (Religious and Secular)”, Law & Justice: The Christian Law Review 164 (2010), 63-74.
“Human Law and Divine Justice: Towards the Institutionalisation of Halakhah”, JSIJ 9 (2010), 1-25.
“Marriage and Divorce: From Social Institution to Halakhic Norms”, in C. Hempel, ed., The Dead Sea Scrolls. Texts and Context (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 339-64.
“Law, Narrative and Theology: Daube on the Prodigal Son”, in E. Metzger, ed., David Daube: A Centenary Celebration (Glasgow: Traditio Iuris Romani, 2010), 71-87.
“Legal Semiotics and Semiotic Aspects of Jurisprudence”, in A. Wagner and J.M. Broekman, eds., Prospects of Legal Semiotics (Dordrecht: Springer, 2010), 3-36.
“A Recent Study on the Babatha and Salome Archives” (with D. Piattelli), Review of Rabbinic Judaism 13:1 (2010), 88-125.
Review of Bernard M. Levinson, Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 10 (2010). Online.
Review of Assnat Bartor, Reading Law as Narrative: A Study in the Casuistic Laws of the Pentateuch, Shofar (2010). Online.
“Globalisation, anti-globalisation and the Jewish ‘question’”, European Review of History 18:1 (2011), 45-56.
Gender and Agrarian Reforms (NYC and London: Routledge Research series: International Studies of Women and Place, 2010).
“Agrarian reform”, Sociopaedia, e-encyclopædia of the International Sociological Association (2010).
“Gender and Land Reforms”, Food Ethics (magazine of the Food Ethics Council): Land: Values, Rights, Reform 5:4 (Winter, 2010), 12-13.
"The Jewish Reception of Paul," in Amy-Jill Levine, ed., The Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 585-587.
"Institutional Statements Concerning Mission" in R. Silverman, P. Morrow, D. Langton. eds., Jews and Christians: Perspectives on Mission (Cambridge: Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths, 2011), 47-60.
"God, the Past and Auschwitz: Jewish Holocaust Theologians' Engagement with History," Holocaust Studies 17:1 (2011), 28-62.
Writing the Holocaust [ed. with Jean-Marc Dreyfus] (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011).
"Jewish Readings of Paul", in Stephen Westerholm, ed., Blackwell Companion to Paul (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2011), 55-72.
"Joseph Klausner's Jesus of Nazareth (1922): A Modern Jewish Study of the Founding Figure of Christianity", in Maria Diemling and K. Hannah Holtschneider, eds., "Jewish-non-Jewish relations: Between exclusion and embrace: An online teaching resource" (July 2011).
The Apostle Paul in the Jewish Imagination: A Study in Modern Jewish-Christian Relations (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
“Some Observations on the Literary Constitution of Legal and Ethical Discourse in Rabbinic and Qumran Texts” in N. Dávid, A. Lange, K. de Troyer, S. Tzoref, eds., The Hebrew Bible in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012), 463–72.
“Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features in the Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity”, with P.S. Alexander, R. Hayward, R. Bernasconi, Aramaic Studies 9 (2011), 199-246. [later version of online publication below]
“The Targums within a New Description of Jewish Text Structures in Antiquity”, Aramaic Studies, 9 (2011), 5–38.
“Profile Targum Genesis Onqelos”, Aramaic Studies 9 (2011), 39–46.
“Aramaic Studies Summer 2011: Introduction”, Aramaic Studies 9 (2011), 1–4.
“Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features in Ancient Jewish Literature", with Philip Alexander, Rocco Bernasconi and Robert Hayward (2010). Online.
“Literary Structures and Historical Reconstruction: The Example of an Amoraic Midrash”, in M. Goodman, P. S. Alexander, eds., Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine, 185-216. (London: British Academy, 2010), 185-216.
“Formen/Jüdische Bibelhermeneutik”, “Gattungen/Jüdische Bibelhermeneutik”, “Intertextualität/Jüdische Bibelhermeneutik”, “Kommentar/Jüdische Bibelhermeneutik", in O. Wischmeyer et al., eds., Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik (Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 2009), 182–3, 190–1, 303, 331–2.
“Notes on the Sequencing of Information in Mishna Tractates,” Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge/Frankfurt Jewish Studies Bulletin 35 (2009): 45.
"Two Hebrew Fragments from Hitherto Unknown Redactions of Sefer ha-Mivharim and Sefer ha-Se`elot", with Shlomo Sela, Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 9:2 (2009): 225-240.
"Jewish Mission" in R. Silverman, P. Morrow, D. Langton. eds., Jews and Christians: Perspectives on Mission (Cambridge: Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths, 2011), 3-21.
Torah from Heaven: The Reconsruction of Faith (Oxford: Littman library of Jewish Civilisation, 2012).
“The Evolution of Talmudic Reasoning”, History and Philosophy of Logic 32 (February 2011), 9-28.
“Secularity and Religious Values” in Yahya Birt, Dilwar Hussain and Ataullah Siddiqui, eds., British Secularism and Religion: Islam, Society and the State (Markfield, UK: Kube Publishing, 2011), 36-44.
The Talmud: A Selection (London: Penguin Books, 2009).
"Holocaust Memory in the Twenty-first Century: between National Reshaping and Globalisation", co-authored with Jean-Marc Dreyfus, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 18:1 (2011),
69-78.
Edited journal special issue: "Modern antisemitism and the emergence of sociology", Patterns of Prejudice 44:2 (2010).
“Antisemitism, capitalism, and the formation of sociological theory”, Patterns of Prejudice 44:2 (2010), 160-93.
“Modern antisemitism and the emergence of sociology: an introduction”, Patterns of Prejudice 44:2 (2010), 107-15.
“Liberal Society, Emancipation, and Antisemitism, Why current debates on Antisemitism need more Dialectic of Enlightenment”, in Stefano Giacchetti, ed., Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future (Newark: The John Cabot University Press/ The University of Delaware Press, 2009), 145-60.
Jews and Other Foreigners: Manchester and the Rescue of the Victims of European Fascism, 1933 – 40 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011).