Updated: August 2009

•  Personal
•  Education
•  Fields of research
•  Academic positions
•  Administrative activities
•  Other professional activities
•  Teaching responsibility for OUI courses
•  Other teaching experience
•  Sponsored research
•  Research grants and scholarships
•  Awards
•  Membership on editorial boards
•  Referee of articles in journals
•  Membership in professional societies
•  Supervision of higher degrees
•  List of publications
  • Books and monographs
  • Edited books
  • Chapters in books and encyclopedias
  • Articles in refereed journals
  • Open University publications
  • Papers in conference proceedings
  • Book reviews
•  Selected Papers at Scientific Conferences

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Education

Fields of Research

• Jewish-Christian polemics and cultural encounters in the Middle Ages
• Sacred traditions of the Holy Land
• Pilgrimage in Christian, Jewish and Moslem culture

Academic Positions

Administrative Activities

Other Professional Activities

Teaching Responsibility for OUI Courses

• Jews and Christians in Western Europe: Encounter between Cultures in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• The Beginnings of Europe: Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages
• Early Christianity
• Pilgrimage: Jews, Christians, Moslems

Other Teaching Experience

Sponsored Research

• Since 1994, editor (with Dr. Israel I. Yuval, The Hebrew University) of Sepher Ha-Nizzahon, an anti-Christian polemic work by Yom-Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, ca. 1410 (A German-Israeli cooperation with Prof. Alfred Haverkamp (The University of Trier) and Prof. Alexander Patschovsky (The University of Konstanz), sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• 1988-1998: Coordinator of the Adversus Iudaeos project, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (publications of Christian anti-Jewish polemical texts)

Research Grants and Scholarships

Awards

Membership on Editorial Boards

Referee of Articles in Journals

Reports for Refereed Publications

Membership in Professional Societies

• Ecclesiastical History Society, London
• International Medieval Institute, Leeds
• Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
• The Medieval Academy of America
• The World Union of Jewish Studies
• The Israeli Association for the Study of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• The Israeli Association for Byzantine Studies

Supervision of Higher Degrees

List of Publications

Books and Monographs

1. Sepher Ha-Nizzahon by Yom-Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen: A Critical Edition, with Israel I. Yuval (forthcoming).
2. Holy Land Travels: Christian Pilgrims in the Early Middle Ages (Hebrew translations from the Latin, introductions and notes), Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem forthcoming (c. 250 pp.).
3. Holy Land Travels: Christian Pilgrims in Late Antiquity (Hebrew translations from the Latin, introductions and notes), Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem 1998 (275 pp.).
4. Die Disputationen zu Ceuta (1179) und Mallorca (1286): Zwei antijudische Schriften aus dem mittelalterlichen Genua, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 15, München 1994 (350 pp.).
5. The Disputation of Majorca 1286: A Critical Edition and Introduction (2 vols., Latin text and Hebrew Introduction). Publications of the School of Graduate Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1985 (Vol. I: 250 pp.; Vol. II: 140 pp.).

Edited Books

1. Ora Limor and Meir Litvak (eds.), Religious Radicalism, Merkaz Shazar, Jerusalem 2007 (in Hebrew).
2. Amir Horowitz, Ora Limor, Ram Ben-Shalom and Avriel Bar-Levav (eds.), The Past and Beyond: Studies in History and Philosophy Presented to Elazar Weinryb, The Open University, Tel Aviv 2006 (in Hebrew).
3. Ora Limor and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land: From the Origins to the Latin Kingdoms, Brepols, Turnhout 2006.
4. Yom-Tov Assis, Jeremy Cohen, Ora Limor and Michael Toch (eds.), Facing the Cross: The Persecutions of 1096 in History and Historiography, Magnes Press, Jerusalem 2000, 217+ XIV pp. (in Hebrew).
5. Ora Limor and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Contra Iudaeos: Ancient and Medieval Polemics Between Christians and Jews, Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1996, 290 pp.

Chapters in Books and Encyclopedias

1. "Early Pilgrimage Itineraries (333-1099)," in Brill's Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (forthcoming).
2. "The Erection of Essential Boundaries: Christians and Jews," in Miri Rubin and Walter Simon (eds.), The Cambridge History of Christianity IV: Christianity in Western Europe, c.1100-c.1500 (pp. 135-148), Cambridge University Press 2009.
3. "Sharing Sacred Space: Holy Places in Jerusalem Between Christianity, Judaism and Islam," in Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith (eds.), In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar (pp. 219-231), Ashgate, Aldershot 2007.
4. "Polemics, Literature and History," in Amir Horowitz, Ora Limor, Ram Ben-Shalom and Avriel Bar-Levav (eds.), The Past and Beyond: Studies in History and Philosophy Presented to Elazar Weinryb (pp. 79-98), Tel Aviv, The Open University 2006 (Hebrew).
5. "'Holy Journey': Pilgrimage and Christian Sacred Landscape," in Ora Limor and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land (pp. 321-353), Turnhout 2006.
6. "Skepticism and Conversion: Jews, Christians and Doubters in Sefer ha-Nizzahon" (with Israel J. Yuval), in Allison Coudert and Jeffrey Shoulson (eds.) Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe (pp. 159-180), University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2004.
7. "Jews as Heretics" in Norman Roth (ed.), Medieval Jewish Civilization. An Encyclopedia (pp. 330-332), Routledge, New York 2003.
8. "With His Own Eyes: Pilgrims and Writers in Early Medieval Europe," in Elchanan Reiner and Yossi Ben-Arzi (eds.), Yehuda Yaale (pp. 383-409), Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem 2003 (in Hebrew).
9. "Reading Sacred Space: Egeria, Paula, and the Christian Holy Land," in Yitzhak Hen (ed.), De Sion exibit lex et verbum domini de Hierusalem. Essays on Medieval Law, Liturgy and Literature in Honour of Amnon Linder (pp. 1-15), Brepols, Turnhout 2001.
10. "Antonini Placentini Itinerarium," "Arculf," "Bordeaux Pilgrim," in John Block Friedman and Kristen Mossler Figg (eds.), Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages, An Encyclopedia, New York and London 2000.
11. "Christians Pilgrims in the Byzantine period," in Y. Tsafrir and S. Safrai (eds.), The History of Jerusalem. The Roman and Byzantine Period 70-638 CE (pp. 391-415), Jerusalem 1999 (in Hebrew). An updated English translation is forthcoming.
12. "Religionsgespräche Chr.-Jud.," Theologische Realencyclopädie (Vol. XXVIII, pp. 649-654), Berlin-New York 1997.
13. "The Epistle of Samuel of Morocco. A Best-Seller in the World of Polemics," in Ora Limor and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Contra Iudaeos: Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews (pp. 177-194), Tübingen 1997.
14. "A Rejected People. Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe," in Nicholas de Lange (ed.), The Illustrated History of the Jewish People (pp. 87-139), Toronto 1997.
15. "Christian Sacred Space and the Jew," in Jeremy Cohen (ed.), From Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian Thought (pp. 55-77) Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien, 11, Wiesbaden 1996.
16. "Polemic Literature," in The Shorter Jewish Encyclopaedia in Russian (Vol. 6, pp. 586-591), Jerusalem 1992.
17. "King David's Tomb on Mt. Zion: The Origins of a Tradition," in D. Jacoby & Y. Tsafrir (eds.), Jews, Samaritans and Christians in Byzantine Palestine (pp. 11-23), Jerusalem 1988 (in Hebrew).

Articles in Refereed Journals

1. Mary and the Jews: Story, Controversy, and Testimony, Historein 6 (2006), pp. 55-71.
2. Pelagia's Tomb on the Mount of Olives: Sin, Repentance, Salvation, Cathedra 118 (2006), pp. 13-40 (in Hebrew).
3. Oedipus in Christian Garb: The Legend of Judas Iscarioth, Zmanim 91 (2005), pp. 12-21 (with Israel J. Yuval, in Hebrew).
4. Charlemagne's Holy Land, Zmanim 89 (2005), pp. 78-83 (in Hebrew).
5. Mary and the Jews: Three Witness Stories, Alpayim-A Multidisciplinary Publication for Contemporary Thought and Literature 28 (2005), pp. 129-151 (in Hebrew).
6. Pilgrims and Authors: Adomnán's De locis sanctis and Hugeburc's Hodoeporicon Sancti Willibaldi, Revue Bénédictine 114 (2004), pp. 253-275.
7. In the Palace of Barcelona and the Market of Majorca-Towards a New Typology of Religious Disputations in the Middle Ages, Pe'amim 94-95 (2003), pp. 105-134 (in Hebrew).
8. Judaism Examines Christianity: The Polemic of Nestor the Priest and Sefer Toledot Yeshu, Pe'amim, Studies in Oriental Jewry 75 (1998), pp. 109-128 (in Hebrew).
9. The Place of the End of Days: Eschatological Geography in Jerusalem, Journal of Jewish Art (The Real and the Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art) 23 (1997/8), pp. 13-24.
10. Christian Tradition-Jewish Authority, Cathedra 80 (1996), pp. 31-62 (in Hebrew).
11. Beyond Barcelona (a review essay on Robert Chazan's Barcelona and Beyond. The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath, 1992), Jewish History 9 (1995), pp. 107-112.
12. Missionary Merchants: Three Medieval Anti-Jewish Works from Genoa, The Journal of Medieval History 17 (1991), pp. 35-51.
13. Religious Disputations in Mediterranean Ports, Pe'amim, Studies in Oriental Jewry 45 (1990), pp. 32-44 (in Hebrew).
14. The Origins of a Tradition: King David's Tomb on Mt. Zion, Traditio 44 (1988), pp. 453-462.
15. An Urgent Call for Aid to Jerusalem (September 1987), Cathedra 46 (1987), pp. 3-7 (in Hebrew).
16. Egeria on Mount Nebo, Cathedra 27 (1983), pp. 49-68 (in Hebrew).

Open University Publications (in Hebrew)

1. Jews and Christians in Western Europe. Encounter between Cultures in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
   1993-1997, 5 volumes
   Authored:
   Unit 1: Jacob and Esau, 1993 (151 pp.) *
   Unit 2: Majority and Minority (with Amnon Raz Krakozkin), 1993 (145 pp.)
   Unit 3: Resemblance and Difference, 1993 (130 pp.)
   Unit 5: The Jewish-Christian Debate, 1993 (256 pp.) *
   Unit 6: "Hebraica Veritas" (with Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin), 1993 (145 pp.)
   Unit 8: Images of the Past (with Israel I. Yuval), 1997 (130 pp.) *
   Unit 9: The Blood Libel, 1995 (160 pp.) *
   Edited:
   Unit 4: Jews before Christian Courts of Justice: The Jewish Oath, 1993
   Unit 7: Faith and Reason, 1993
   Unit 10: The Anusim, 1997
   Unit 11: Jews and Christians in the Age of the Reformation, 1997
2. The Beginnings of Europe: Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages
   4 volumes, 2003)
   Authored:
   Unit 1: Early Christianity *
   Unit 3: The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Merovingians
   Unit 6: Church, Monasticism and Mission *
   Edited:
   Unit 2: The Barbarians
   Unit 4: The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians
   Unit 5: Society and Economy in the Frankish Kingdom
   Unit 7: The Carolingian Renaissance
   Unit 8: On the Borders of Europe (Byzantium and Islam)
   Unit 9: The Mediterranean Sea in the Early Middle Ages (The Pirenne Thesis)
3. Pilgrimage: Jews, Christians, Muslims
   Authored:
   Vol. 1: Course Book (with Elchanan Reiner), forthcoming (250-300 pp.) *
   Edited:
   Vol. 2: Reader (co-edited with Elchanan Reiner), 2006 (600 pp.)
   Vol. 3: Documents (co-edited with Elchanan Reiner), 2006
4. Early Christianity (with Dr. Rivka Nir)
5. Eretz Israel Between Christians and Muslims (324-1187), forthcoming

Papers in Conference Proceedings

1. "The Epistle of Samuel of Morocco: A polemic Bestseller," Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1990, pp. 93-100 (in Hebrew).
2. "Three Anti-Jewish Disputations from Medieval Genoa," Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 1986, pp.79-86 (in Hebrew).

Book Reviews

1. Review of: Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West, by Yitzhak Hen, Historia (forthcoming).
2. Review of: The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, edited by Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed, Zion 70 (2005), pp. 242-247.
3. Review of: Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, by Lee I. Levine, The Jewish Quarterly Review 94 (2004), pp. 400-402.
4. Review of: Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians, by Shulamith Shahar, Historia 9 (2002), pp. 139-144.
5. Review of: Gentile Tales. The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews, by Miri Rubin, Zion 66 (2001), pp. 396-404.
6. The Jewish-Christian Controversy. From the Earliest Times to 1789, by Samuel Krauss and William Horbury, Tarbiz 69 (2000), pp. 151-155.
7. Review of: Communities of Violence: Perception of Minorities in the Middle Ages, by David Nirenberg, Zion 63 (1999), pp. 476-482.
8. Review of: Devils, Women, and Jews: Reflections of the Other in Medieval Sermon Stories, by Joan Young Gregg, The Medieval Review, 1999.
9. Review of: Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine, by David Satran, Cathedra 87 (1998), pp. 169-174.
10. Review of: Die Christlichen Adversus-Judaeos-Texte und ihr literarisches und historisches Umfeld (13.-20. Jh.), by Heinz Schreckenberg, The Jewish Quarterly Review 88 (1997), pp. 82-84.
11. Review of: Religions-gespräche im Mittelalter, edited by Bernard Lewis and Friedrich Niewoehner, Deutsches Archiv 50 (1994), pp. 401-402.
12. Review of: Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response, by Robert Chazan, Deutsches Archiv 46 (1990), pp. 257-258.
13. Review of: The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti Judaism, by Jeremy Cohen, Ithaca and London 1982, Zion 51 (1987), pp. 113-118.

Selected Papers at Scientific Conferences

1. "Ways of Writing: Travel Narratives in Early Christianity," International Congress: Holy Cities and Pilgrimage: Jerusalem-Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2008)
2. "Conversion of Space," Religion and the State (Cambridge, UK, 2006)
3. "Mary in Jerusalem," International Congress: In the Wake of Pilgrims to the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 2005)
4. "Eastern Sights in Western Eyes: The Sacred Map of Mary," CISH International Congress (Sidney, Australia, 2005)
5. "Mary and the Jews: Three Witness Stories," Religions in Conflict, (Volos, Greece, 2004)
6. "Sharing Sacred Space: Christians, Jews and Moslems in Jerusalem," Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Exeter, England, 2003)
7. "Reversed Mirror: Jewish Rituals in Christian Eyes," Jews and Judaism Through the Eyes of 'Others' (Jerusalem, 2001)
8. Millennial Pursuits: Expectations of the End in the Middle Ages (Jerusalem, 2001), organizer and commentator
9. "Christianity versus Judaism in the Eyes of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen," Hebraica Veritas? (Philadelphia, 2000)
10. "Jews Read the Gospels," New Narratives of Jewish-Christian Co-emergence (Chicago, 2000)
11. "Rereading the Holy Land," Technologies of Conversion: Transformations of Belief and Practice in Pre-Modern Europe (Princeton, 2000)
12. "The Formation of the Sacred Map," Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1999)
13. "Polemics and Conversion: The Impact of Polemical Literature," International Medieval Congress (Leeds, 1997)
14. "Sites of Discourse: The Scenery of Religious Disputations," The Public Sphere (Jerusalem, 1997)
15. Juden und Christen zur Zeit der Kreuzzuge (Reichenau, 1996), commentator
16. "The Mount of Olives and the End of Times," The Real and the Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art (Jerusalem, 1996)