SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2016) A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English. Wiesbaden: Reichert. (Beiträge zur Iranistik)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Leibner, Uzi and Hezser, Catherine, eds. (2016) Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism)

Long, Roger D., Singh, Gurharpal, Samad, Yunas and Talbot, Ian, eds. (2016) State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond, Islam and Security. London: Routledge. (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Book Chapters

Dolce, Lucia (2016) 'The Embryonic Generation of the Perfect Body: Ritual Embryology from Japanese Tantric Sources.' In: Andreeva, Anna and Steavu, Dominic, (eds.), Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions. Leiden; New York: Brill, pp. 253-310. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series)

Hezser, Catherine (2016) ''For the Lord God is a Sun and a Shield' (Ps. 84:12): Sun Symbolism in Hellenistic Jewish Literature and in Amoraic Midrashim.' In: Leibner, Uzi and Hezser, Catherine, (eds.), Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 213-236. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism)

Hezser, Catherine (2016) '"Greek and Roman Slaving in Comparative Ancient Perspective: The Level of Integration".' In: Hodkinson, Stephen, Klejwegt, Marc and Vlassopoulos, Kostas, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-23. (Oxford Handbooks Online)

Hezser, Catherine (2016) 'The International Context of Samuel Krauss's Scholarship: Network Connections between East and West.' In: Turan, Tamas and Wilke, Carsten, (eds.), Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary. The 'Science of Judaism' between East and West. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 175-192. (Europaeisch-juedische Studien Beitraege 14)

Hezser, Catherine (2016) 'Mobility, Flexibility, and the Diasporization of Palestinian Judaism after 70 C.E.' In: Cordoni, Constanza and Langer, Gerhard, (eds.), 'Let the Wise Listen and Add to Their Learning' (Ps. 1:5). Festschrift for Guenther Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 197-216. (Studia Judaica vol.90)

Hezser, Catherine (2016) 'Oral and Written Communication and Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient Judaism and Christianity.' In: Kelber, Werner H. and Sanders, Paula A., (eds.), Oral-Scribal Dimensions of Scripture, Piety, and Practice: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock Publishers), pp. 89-109.

Hezser, Catherine (2016) 'Representations of the Physician in Jewish Literature from Hellenistic and Roman Times.' In: Harris, William V., (ed.), Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations. Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 173-197. (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition)

Hezser, Catherine (2016) '"The Torah Versus Homer: Jewish and Greco-Roman Education in Late Roman Palestine".' In: Hauge, Matthew Ryan and Pitts, Andrew W., (eds.), Ancient Education and Early Christianity. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 5-24. (Library of New Testament Studies 533)

Hezser, Catherine and Leibner, Uzi (2016) '"Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context: An Introductory Essay".' In: Leibner, Uzi and Hezser, Catherine, (eds.), Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 1-23. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism)

Hintze, Almut (2016) 'A Zoroastrian Vision.' In: Williams, Alan, Stewart, Sarah and Hintze, Almut, (eds.), The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition. London: I.B Tauris, pp. 77-96.

Hunter, Erica C D (2016) 'Commemorating the Saints at Turfan.' In: Tang, Li and Winkler, Dietmar W., (eds.), Winds of Jingjiao. Studies in Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. Vienna: Lit. Verlag, pp. 89-104. (orientalia - patristica - oecumenica; 9)

Kim, Heewon and Singh, Gurharpal (2016) 'The Challenges of Managing Religious Diversity in India: Between Hegemonic Domination and the Quest for Equality.' In: Dawson, Andrew, (ed.), The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity: National Contexts, Global Issues. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 49-66. (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Stewart, Sarah (2016) 'Ideas of Self-Definition Among Zoroastrians of Post-Revolutionary Iran.' In: Williams, Alan, Stewart, Sarah and Hintze, Almut, (eds.), The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 353-370.

Tournier, Vincent (2016) 'Protective Verses for Travellers: a Fragment of the Diśāsauvastika-gāthās Related to the Scriptures of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins.' In: Braarvig, Jens, (ed.), Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection — Buddhist Manuscripts Volume IV. Oslo: Hermes Publishing, pp. 407-437.

Watson, Tony (2016) 'Evagrius : east of the Euphrates.' In: Kalvesmaki, Joel and Darling Young, Robin, (eds.), Evagrius and his legacy. South Bend: Notre Dame Press.

Journal Article

Gifford, Paul (2016) 'The Charlie Hebdo Affair in Senegal.' Canadian Journal of African Studies, 50 (1). pp. 479-492.

Gifford, Paul (2016) 'Religion in Contemporary Senegal.' Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31 (2). pp. 255-267.

Hartung, Jan-Peter (2016) 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Ṭālibān, Afghan Self-Determination, and the Challenges of Transnational Jihadism.' Die Welt des Islams, 56 (2). pp. 125-152.

Hartung, Jan-Peter (2016) 'The Praiseworthiness of Divine Beauty – The ‘Shaykh al-Hind’ Maḥmūd al-Ḥasan, social justice, and Deobandiyyat.' South Asian History and Culture, 7 (4). pp. 346-369.

Hezser, Catherine (2016) 'Blurred Boundaries between Slaves and Free Persons in Ancient Judaism.' AJS Perspectives (Fall). pp. 44-45.

O'Donnell, S. Jonathon (2016) 'Secularizing Demons: Fundamentalist Navigations in Religion and Secularity.' Zygon®, 51 (3). pp. 640-660.

Zene, Cosimo (2016) 'Inner Life, Politics and the Secular: Is there a ‘Spirituality’ of Subalterns and Dalits? Notes on Gramsci and Ambedkar.' Rethinking Marxism, 28 (3-4). pp. 540-562.

Book Reviews

Hezser, Catherine (2016) 'Review of: Jane L. Kanarek, Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 141 (3). pp. 181-182.

Hezser, Catherine (2016) 'Review of: Jason Sion Mokhtarian, Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests. The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran, Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 141 (6). pp. 456-457.

Hezser, Catherine (2016) 'Review of: Uri Gabbay and Shai Secunda (eds), Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon. Scholarly Conversations Between Jews, Iranians and Babylonians in Antiquity. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 141 (5). pp. 453-456.

Oez, Mikael (2016) 'Review of: A grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw, by Lidia Napiorkowska.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79 (1). pp. 166-168.