The Open University of Israel
Prof. Ora Limor

Prof. Ora Limor

Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies

Updated: April 2017


 

Personal

E-mail: orali@openu.ac.il

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Education

1985 Ph.D., History, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Dissertation: The Disputation of Majorca 1286: A Critical Edition and Introduction.
Supervisor: Prof. Benjamin Z. Kedar
1979 M.A., History, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Thesis: Christian Traditions of the Mount of Olives in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
Supervisor: Prof. Amnon Linder
1969 B.A., History and Political Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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Fields of Research
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Academic Positions

2013- Member, Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (Israeli Center of Research Excellence [I-Core])
2012-2013 Member of Malag, Israel Council for Higher Education
2012 Fellow, The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia
2011 retired
2009-2010 Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge U.K.
2005-2009 Vice President for Academic Affairs, The Open University of Israel
2004 Fellow, The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia
2003 - Professor, The Open University of Israel
2000-2001 Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1999-2000 Fellow, The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia
1996-2003 Associate Professor, The Open University of Israel
1993-1994 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin)
1991-1996 Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Israel
1991-1992 Honorary fellow, University College, London
1986-1991 Lecturer, The Open University of Israel
1980-1986 Instructor, History Department, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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Administrative Activities

2014- Member of the Nation Steering Committee for the Humanities  
2013-

Member of the Steering Committee for Nation Program of Enrichment Studies
2012-2013 Member of Malag, Israel Council for Higher Education
2005-2009 Vice-President for Academic Affairs, The Open University of Israel
2003-2005 Head, Subcommittee for Humanities and Judaic Studies, The Open University
2001-2005 Head, Steering Committee, The Research Authority, The Open University
1998-1999 Member, The Appointment Committee, The Open University
1997-1999 Chair, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University
1995 - Member, Academic Committee, The Open University
1990-1999 Member, Committee for the Recognition of Prior Studies, The Open University
1987-1990 Member, Scholarship Committee, The Open University
1986 - Member, Subcommittee for Humanities and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel
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Other Professional Activities

2013 Member, The Israel Prize Committee in Jewish History
2007 Member, The Israel Prize Committee in the Study of Eretz Israel
2005-2009 Member, Board of Directors, The World Union of Jewish Studies
2005 - Member, Council of the World Congress of Jewish Studies
2004-2009 Member, Executive Committee, The Open University
2004-2009 Member, Open University Council
2004-2006 Member, Board of Directors, The Historical Society of Israel
2002 Member, Scientific Committee for the Annual Conference of the Historical Society of Israel
2000 - Member, Committee of the Historical Society of Israel
1999-2002 Member, Scientific Board, The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University
1998 Member, The Israel Prize Committee in Jewish History, Archaeology and the Study of Eretz Israel
1996-1999 Member, Board of Directors, The Historical Society of Israel
1996-1998 Head of Team, Judaism and Christianity, Center for the Instruction of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University
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Teaching Responsibility for OUI Courses

Courses in History (mainly Medieval History and Late Antiquity), Religion, and Culture: Courses

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Other Teaching Experience

Fall 2012 Guest Lecturer, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Spring 2011 Guest Lecturer: Medieval Seminar, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2014- Member, Scientific Committee for the Annual Conference of the Historical Society of Israel
2013- Member, The Israel Prize Committee in the Study of Jewish History
2009-2010 Guest lecturer: Medieval Seminar, Queen Mary, London; Divinity Faculty, Cambridge; School of Oriental Studies, Oxford; Oxford Center for Jewish and Hebrew Studies
Summer 2008 NEH Summer Workshop on The Holy Land, Yarnton, Oxford University
2004 Guest Lecturer: Medieval Seminar, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2000 Guest Lecturer: Medieval Seminar, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1999 MA seminar, Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1993-1994 Guest Lecturer:
  • Institut für Judaistic, Freie Universität, Berlin
  • Medieval Seminar, Universität Konstanz
1991-1992 Guest Lecturer:
  • Medieval Seminar, Oxford University
  • Medieval Seminar, Cambridge University
  • University College, London
  • Director Seminar, The Warburg Institute, London
1980-1986 The Hebrew University, History Department, Instructor
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Sponsored Research

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Research Grants and Scholarships

2014- The Open University Research Authority (Grant for a research on the Traditions of the Mount of Olives )
2013 - Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (Israeli Center of Research Excellence [I-Core])
2012 The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia
2004 The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia
2000-2001 Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1999-2000 The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia
1993-1994 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin)
1982-1985 PhD Scholarships, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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Awards

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Membership on Editorial Boards

2013- Member, Scientific Editorial Board of the Ben-Zvi Institute
2009-2013 Editor, Madaei Hayahadut (Jewish Studies)
2004-2006 Editor, Historia (Journal of the Historical Society of Israel)
2004- Member, Editorial Board, Zmanim (A Historical Quarterly)
1995-2004 Member, Scientific Editorial Board of Ben-Zvi  Institute
1995-1999 Editor, Cathedra (Scientific quarterly for the research of Eretz Israel)
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Referee of Articles in Journals

Inter alia:
 
  • Zion
  • Tarbiz
  • Historia
  • Cathedra
  • Jewish Studies Quarterly
  • Medieval Encounters
  • Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies
  • The Jewish Quarterly Review
  • Zmanim

Reports for Refereed Publications

Evaluation of books and proposals for (inter alia):
Magnes Press, Jerusalem
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
Yad Ben-Zvi Institute Press, Jerusalem
Bar Ilan University Press
The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
The Israel Science Foundation
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Membership in Professional Societies

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Supervision of Higher Degrees

(Member of PhD committees)
Student Degree
Neta Bodner Ph.D., History of Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013
Anna Gutgarz Ph.D, History, The Hebrew University, 2012
Yamit Rachman-Shrira Ph.D., History of Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009
Lubov Tchernin Ph.D., Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009
Pnina Arad Ph.D., History of Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008
Rivka Fishman-Duker Ph.D., Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University, 2002
Eyal Ben Eliahu Ph.D., Jewish History, The Hebrew University, 2001
Roli Silberstein Ph.D., Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University, 2000
Rina Guth Ph.D., History of Art, The Hebrew University, 1999
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List of Publications

 

Books and Monographs

  1. The Mount of Olives: A Biography (forthcoming).
  2. Holy Land Travels: Christian Pilgrims in the Early Middle Ages (Hebrew translations from the Latin, introductions and notes), Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, 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 Institute, 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.).
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Edited Books

  1. Ora Limor, Hillel Newman, Joseph Patrich (eds.), The Holy Land in Late Antiquity, Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem (forthcoming, in Hebrew).
  2. Yitzhak Hen, Ora Limor, Thomas F.X. Noble, (eds.), Barbarians and Jews, (forthcoming).
  3. Ora Limor (eds), Religious Radicalism, Merkaz Shazar, Jerusalem 2008 (Hebrew).
  4. Amir Horowitz, Ora Limor, Ram Ben-Shalom, Avriel Bar-Levav (eds.), The Past and Beyond: Studies in History and Philosophy Presented to Elazar Weinryb, The Open University, Tel Aviv 2006 (Hebrew).
  5. Ora Limor, Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land: From the Origins to the Latin Kingdoms, Brepols, Turnhout 2006.
  6. Yom-Tov Assis, Jeremy Cohen, Ora Limor, Michael Toch (eds.), Facing the Cross: The Persecutions of 1096 in History and Historiography, Magnes Press, Jerusalem 2000, 217+ XIV pp. (in Hebrew).
  7. Ora Limor, Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Contra Iudaeos: Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews, Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1996, 290 pp.
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Chapters in Books and Encyclopedias

  1. "Jerusalem and Eschatology," in Suleiman A. Mourad, Naomi Koltun-Fromm,and Bedross der Matossian, Handbook on Jerusalem, Miltom Park: Routledge (forthcoming).
  2. "Willibald in the Holy Places," in Yaniv Fox and Yitzhak Hen (eds.), East and West in the Early Middle Ages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
  3. "The Tale of the Shroud," in Tova Rosen, Nili Arye-Sapir, Tsafi Sebba-Elran and David Rotman (eds.),TE'UDA: The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies Research Series vol. 27, Studies in Honor of Prof. Eli Yassif , Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv University (forthcoming, in Hebrew).
  4. "Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives," in Orit Bashkin, Adam Beaver, Joshua Levinson (eds.), Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (forthcoming).
  5. "Christian Holy Land Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity," in Ora Limor, Hillel Newman, Joseph Patrich (eds.), The Holy Land in Late Antiquity, Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute (forthcoming, in Hebrew).
  6. "Tales from the East: Jewish Episodes in Early Medieval Travel Narratives," in Yitzhak Hen, Ora Limor, Thomas F.X. Noble (eds.), Barbarians and Jews (forthcoming).
  7. "Earth, Stone, Water and Oil: Objects of Veneration in Holy Land Travel Narratives," in Renana Bartal, Neta Bodner, Bianca Kühnel (eds.), Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place 500-1500 (forthcoming).
  8. "Scents from the Holy Land," in Emmanuel Etkes, David Assaf, Yosef Kaplan (eds.), Avney Derech in honour of Zvi Yekutieli (pp. 123-134), Jerusalem: Shazar Institute, 2015.
  9. "Jerusalem," in David Wallace (ed.), Europe: A Literary History 1348-1418 (Vol. 2, pp. 217-243), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  10. "Placing an Idea: The Valley of Jehoshaphat in Religious Imagination", in Renana Bartal, Hanna Vorholt (eds.), Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel (pp. 280-300), Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).
  11. "Mary in Jerusalem: An Imaginary Map", in Bianca Kühnel, Galit Noga-Banai and Hanna Vorholt (eds.), Visual Constructs of Jerusalem (pp. 11-22),  Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.
  12. "Conversion of Space," in Ira Katzenelson and Miri Rubin (eds.), Religious Conversion: History, Experience and Meaning (31-59), Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
  13. "Judas Iscariot: Revealer of the Hidden Truth" (with Israel Jacob Yuval), in Peter Schäfer, Michael Meerson and Yaacov Deutsch (eds.), Toledot Yeshu (The Life-Story of Jesus) Revisited, Tübingen, (pp. 197-220), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011.
  14. "Judas Ischariot und die Juden" (with Israel Jacob Yuval), in Lukas Clemens and Sigfrid Hirbodian (eds.), Christliches und jüdisches Europa im Mittelalter: Kolloquium zu Ehren von Alfred Haverkamp (pp. 197-205), Trier: Kliomedia, 2011.
  15. "Early Pilgrimage Itineraries (333-1099)," in Brill's Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, Leiden: Brill 2009.
  16. "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: Cambridge University Press 2009.
  17. "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), Aldershot: Ashgate 2007.
  18. "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).
  19. "'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: Brepols, 2006.
  20. "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), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2004.
  21. "Jews as Heretics" in Norman Roth (ed.), Medieval Jewish Civilization. An Encyclopedia (pp. 330-332), New York: Routledge, 2003.
  22. "With their Own Eyes: Pilgrims Tell their Stories," in Yehoshua Ben-Arieh and Elchanan Reiner and Yossi Ben-Arzi (eds.), Studies in the History of Eretz Israel Presented to Yehuda Ben Porat (pp. 383-409), Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2003 (Hebrew).
  23. "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), Turnhout: Brepols, 2001.
  24. "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: Garland, 2000.
  25. "Christian Pilgrims in the Byzantine period," in Yoram Tsafrir and Shmuel Safrai (eds.), The History of Jerusalem. The Roman and Byzantine Period 70-638 CE (pp. 391-415), Jerusalem 1999 (Hebrew).
  26. "Religionsgespräche Chr.-Jud.," Theologische Realencyclopädie (TRE) (Vol. XXVIII, pp. 649-654), Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997.
  27. "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: Mohr Siebeck, 1997.
  28. "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: Key Porter Books, 1997.
  29. "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.
  30. "Polemic Literature," in The Shorter Jewish Encyclopaedia in Russian (Vol. 6, pp. 586-591), Jerusalem 1992.
  31. "King David's Tomb on Mt. Zion: The Origins of a Tradition," in David Jacoby and  Yoram Tsafrir (eds.), Jews, Samaritans and Christians in Byzantine Palestine (pp. 11-23), Jerusalem: The Ben-Zvi Institute, 1988 ( Hebrew).
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Articles in Refereed Journals

  1. Charlemagne and the Holy Land Cathedra 158 (2015), pp. 51-78 (in Hebrew).
  2. Judas Ischariot - der K?nder verborgener Wahrheit, (with Israel Jacob Yuval), MünchnerBeiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, 5 (2011), pp. 24-24.
  3. Polemical Varieties: Religious Disputations in 13th Century Spain, Iberia Judaica 2 (2010), pp. 55-79.
  4. Mary and the Jews: Story, Controversy, and Testimony, Historein 6 (2006), pp. 55-71.
  5. Pelagia's Tomb on the Mount of Olives: Sin, Repentance, Salvation, Cathedra 118 (2006), pp. 13-40 (Hebrew).
  6. Oedipus in Christian Garb: The Legend of Judas Iscarioth, Zmanim 91 (2005), pp. 12-21 (with Israel J. Yuval, in Hebrew).
  7. Charlemagne's Holy Land, Zmanim 89 (2005), pp. 78-83 (Hebrew).
  8. Mary and the Jews: Three Witness Stories, Alpayim-A Multidisciplinary Publication for Contemporary Thought and Literature 28 (2005), pp. 129-151 (Hebrew).
  9. Pilgrims and Authors: Adomnán's De locis sanctis and Hugeburc's Hodoeporicon Sancti Willibaldi, Revue Bénédictine 114 (2004), pp. 253-275.
  10. 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 (Hebrew).
  11. Judaism Examines Christianity: The Polemic of Nestor the Priest and Sefer Toledot Yeshu, Pe'amim, Studies in Oriental Jewry 75 (1998), pp. 109-128 (Hebrew).
  12. 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.
  13. Christian Tradition-Jewish Authority, Cathedra 80 (1996), pp. 31-62 (Hebrew).
  14. 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.
  15. Missionary Merchants: Three Medieval Anti-Jewish Works from Genoa, The Journal of Medieval History 17 (1991), pp. 35-51.
  16. Religious Disputations in Mediterranean Ports, Pe'amim, Studies in Oriental Jewry 45 (1990), pp. 32-44 (Hebrew).
  17. The Origins of a Tradition: King David's Tomb on Mt. Zion, Traditio 44 (1988), pp. 453-462.
  18. An Urgent Call for Aid to Jerusalem (September 1987), Cathedra 46 (1987), pp. 3-7 (Hebrew).
  19. Egeria on Mount Nebo, Cathedra 27 (1983), pp. 49-68 (in Hebrew).
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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.); revised edition, 2017
    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; revised edition, 2017
    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 and Miriam Frenkel), 2014 (240 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)
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Papers in Conference Proceedings

"Jews and Christians: Dialogue, Debate, Discord," Proceedings of the 5th CISMOR Conference on Jewish Studies "Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages," Kyoto, October 2012 (Japanese and English)

"The Epistle of Samuel of Morocco: A polemic Bestseller," Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1990, pp. 93-100 (in Hebrew).

"Three Anti-Jewish Disputations from Medieval Genoa," Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 1986, pp.79-86 (in Hebrew).

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Book Reviews

  1. Review of: Reorienting the East, by Martin Jacobs, Cathedra (forthcoming).
  2. Review of: Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem, by Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Europe (forthcoming).
  3. Review of: Conversion and Narrative, by Ryan Szpiech, Studies in Jewish- Christian Relations 11 (2016).
  4. Review of: Adomnán of Iona: Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker, edited by Jonathan M. Wooding with Rodney Aist, Thomas Owen Clancy, and Thomas O'Loughlin, Scottish Historical Review (2012).
  5. Review of: Tradition and Transformation: Knowledge Transmission among European Jews in the Middle Ages, by Micha Perry, Zion (2012).
  6. Review of: Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogue Against the Jews, translated by Irven M. Resnick, Pe'amim (2011).
  7. Review of: Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th-13th Centuriestranslated and edited by Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate, Series: Crusade Texts in Translation 18 The Medieval Review online, May 2011.
  8. Review of: Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West, by Yitzhak Hen, Historia 24 (2010), pp. 61-64.
  9. Review of: Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Great Screen, by Jeremy Cohen, Zmanim 109 (2010), pp. 112-115.
  10. 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.
  11. Review of: Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by Lee I. Levine, The Jewish Quarterly Review 94 (2004), pp. 400-402.
  12. Review of: Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians, by Shulamith Shahar, Historia 9 (2002), pp. 139-144.
  13. Review of: Gentile Tales. The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews, by Miri Rubin, Zion 66 (2001), pp. 396-404.
  14. Review of: The Jewish-Christian Controversy. From the Earliest Times to 1789, by Samuel Krauss and William Horbury, Tarbiz 69 (2000), pp. 151-155.
  15. Review of: Communities of Violence: Perception of Minorities in the Middle Ages, by David Nirenberg, Zion 63 (1999), pp. 476-482.
  16. Review of: Devils, Women, and Jews: Reflections of the Other in Medieval Sermon Stories, by Joan Young Gregg, The Medieval Review, 1999.
  17. Review of: Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine, by David Satran, Cathedra 87 (1998), pp. 169-174.
  18. 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.
  19. Review of: Religions-gespräche im Mittelalter, edited by Bernard Lewis and Friedrich Niewoehner, Deutsches Archiv 50 (1994), pp. 401-402.
  20. Review of: Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response, by Robert Chazan, Deutsches Archiv 46 (1990), pp. 257-258.
  21. Review of: The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti Judaism, by Jeremy Cohen, Zion 51 (1987), pp. 113-118.
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Selected Papers at Scientific Conferences

  1. " The Jerusalem Experience in the Post-Crusader Period: Moslems, Christians and Jews", International Conference: Jerusalem and the Crusades (Jerusalem, December 2014)
  2. "Willibald in the Holy Places," Minerva International Conference: East and West in the Early Middle Ages (Berlin, December 2014)
  3. "Jews and Christians: Dialogue, Debate, Discord," The 5th CISMOR Conference on Jewish Studies "Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages" (Kyoto, October 2012)
  4. "The Valley of Jehoshaphat," AHRC Research Network: Remembered Places and Invented Traditions: Thinking about the Holy Land in the Later Middle Ages (International workshop, London, September 2012)
  5. "Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Pilgrimage Narratives,"  The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Seminar: Travel Facts, Travel Fictions, and the Performance of Jewish Identity (Philadelphia, January 2012)
  6. "Mary and the Holy Land: The Memories of Pilgrims," Conference of the International Society of Cultural History (Oslo, August 2011)
  7. "Mary in Jerusalem: An Imaginary Map," International Conference: Visual Constructs of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, November 2010).
  8. "Judas Iscariot, Revealer of a Secret Truth" (with Israel J. Yuval), Sepher Toledoth Yeshu Workshop, (Princeton, November 2009)
  9. "Ways of Writing: Travel Narratives in Early Christianity," International Congress: Holy Cities and Pilgrimage: Jerusalem-Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2008)
  10. "Conversion of Space," Religion and the State (Cambridge, UK, 2006)
  11. "Mary in Jerusalem," International Congress: In the Wake of Pilgrims to the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 2005)
  12. "Eastern Sights in Western Eyes: The Sacred Map of Mary," CISH International Congress (Sidney, Australia, 2005)
  13. "Mary and the Jews: Three Witness Stories," Religions in Conflict (Volos, Greece, 2004)
  14. "Sharing Sacred Space: Christians, Jews and Moslems in Jerusalem," Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Exeter, England, 2003)
  15. "Reversed Mirror: Jewish Rituals in Christian Eyes," Jews and Judaism Through the Eyes of 'Others' (Jerusalem, 2001)
  16. Millennial Pursuits: Expectations of the End in the Middle Ages (Jerusalem, 2001), organizer and commentator
  17. "Christianity versus Judaism in the Eyes of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen," Hebraica Veritas? (Philadelphia, 2000)
  18. "Jews Read the Gospels," New Narratives of Jewish-Christian Co-emergence (Chicago, 2000)
  19. "Rereading the Holy Land," Technologies of Conversion: Transformations of Belief and Practice in Pre-Modern Europe (Princeton, 2000)
  20. "The Formation of the Sacred Map," Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1999)
  21. "Polemics and Conversion: The Impact of Polemical Literature," International Medieval Congress (Leeds, 1997)
  22. "Sites of Discourse: The Scenery of Religious Disputations," The Public Sphere (Jerusalem, 1997)
  23. Juden und Christen zur Zeit der Kreuzzuge (Reichenau, 1996), commentator
  24. "The Mount of Olives and the End of Times," The Real and the Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art (Jerusalem, 1996)
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