SOAS Research Online

Hezser, Catherine (2024) Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi. London: Bloomsbury. (Education, Literary Culture, and Religious Practice in the Ancient World) (Forthcoming)

Hezser, Catherine (2024) 'Review of: Andreas Lehnardt, Übersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi, vol. 1.5: Seder Zeraim: Shevi’it, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.' Review of Biblical Literature, 2024 .

Hezser, Catherine (2024) 'Review of: Ben Zion Rosenfeld, Credit and Usury in Jewish Society in the Mishnah and Talmud, Leiden: Brill, 2024.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 149 (10). pp. 917-919.

Hezser, Catherine (2024) 'Plurisignation in Biblical and Rabbinic Law: The Meaning and Punishment of 'Rape'.' In: Bakhos, Carol and Gray, Alyssa M., (eds.), Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin. Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, pp. 385-407. (Brown Judaic Studies, vol. 372)

Hezser, Catherine (2024) Jewish Monotheism and Slavery. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Elements in Religion and Monotheism)

Hezser, Catherine (2024) 'Antiquarianism, Scholasticism, and Rabbinic Anthologies.' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 263-274.

Hezser, Catherine (2024) 'Attitudes Torward the Body.' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 216-228.

Hezser, Catherine (2024) 'Introduction: Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity.' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-11.

Hezser, Catherine (2024) 'Rabbis and the Image of the Intellectual.' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 171-184.

Hezser, Catherine, ed. (2024) The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge.

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'The Hebrew Bible in Ancient Jewish Education.' Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok [the Swedish Exegetical Annual], 88 (1). pp. 14-32.

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'New Testament and Rabbinic Slave Parables at the Intersection between Fiction and Reality.' In: Ottenheijm, Eric, Poorthuis, Marcel and Merz, Annette, (eds.), The Power of Parables: Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables. Leiden: Brill, pp. 367-388. (Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume 39)

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real.' In: Luther, Susanne, Hartog, Peter B. and Wilde, Clare E., (eds.), Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences, 3rd c. BCE - 8th c. CE. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 251-268. (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation)

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'The Rule of the Wise as an Alternative to Kingship and Democracy in Ancient Rabbinic and Philosophical Thought.' In: Czajkowski, Kimberley and Friedman, David A., (eds.), Looking In, Looking Out: Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation. Essays for Martin Goodman on His 70th Birthday. Leiden: Brill, pp. 179-202. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 212)

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Outer Space in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature.' In: Mazur, Eric Michael and MacFarland Taylor, Sarah, (eds.), Religion and Outer Space. London: Routledge, pp. 9-24.

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Ermunterung zum Wandern.' In: von Gemuenden, Petra, Merz, Annette and Schwier, Helmut, (eds.), Resonanzen. Gerd Theißen zum 80. Geburtstag. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, pp. 19-23.

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Review of: Gail Labovitz, Massekhet Mo'ed Qatan. A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud II/10, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 148 (1/2). pp. 19-20.

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Anti-Semitism, pagan.' In: Whitmarsh, Tim, (ed.), Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Health and Hellenism: Philo of Alexandria ’s Discourse on Health in the Context of Greek Philosophy and Hippocratic Medicine.' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice. Leiden: Brill, pp. 43-68. (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Volume: 76)

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Health as a Jewish National Ideal in Early Zionist Writings.' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice. Leiden: Brill, pp. 208-230. (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Volume: 76)

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Introduction: The Significance of Health in Jewish History, Culture, and Society.' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice. Leiden: Brill, pp. 1-22. (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Volume: 76)

Hezser, Catherine, ed. (2023) Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice. Leiden: Brill. (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies. vol. 76)

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'The Mishnah and Roman Law: A Rabbinic Compilation of ius civile for the Jewish civitas of the Land of Israel under Roman Rule.' In: Cohen, Shaye J.D., (ed.), What is the Mishnah? The State of the Question. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 141-166.

Hezser, Catherine (2023) 'Physical Strength and Weakness as Means of Social Stratification in Palestinian Rabbinic Discourse of Late Antiquity.' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), Jews and Health: Tradition, History, and Practice. Leiden: Brill, pp. 87-106. (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Volume: 76)

Hezser, Catherine (2022) 'Review of: Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021).' Journal for the Study of Judaism, 53 (4/5). pp. 579-581.

Hezser, Catherine (2022) 'Between Scholasticism and Populism: Rabbinic and Christian Networks in the Roman Empire.' Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi: Rivista semestrale a cura del Centro Italiano di Studi Superiori sulle Religioni, 39 (1). pp. 27-46.

Hezser, Catherine (2022) 'Review of: Mira Balberg and Haim Weiss, When Near Becomes Far. Old Age in Rabbinic Literature (Oxford: OUP, 2021).' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 147 (6). pp. 547-549.

Hezser, Catherine (2022) 'Finding a Treasure: The Treasure Motif in Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman Narratives in the Context of Rabbinic Halakhah and Roman Law.' In: Oegema, Albertina, Pater, Jonathan and Stoutjesdijk, Martijn, (eds.), Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 295-326. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament)

Hezser, Catherine (2022) 'Review of: T. Ilan et al. (eds.), Rabbinische Literatur, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2021.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 147 (1/2). pp. 45-47.

Hezser, Catherine (2022) 'Review of: Reuven Kiperwasser, Going West: Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture (Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies, 2021).' Journal for the Study of Judaism, 53 (3). pp. 445-447.

Hezser, Catherine (2022) 'Jewish Scribes in the Late Second Temple Period: Differences Between the Composition, Writing, and Interpretation of Texts.' In: Hakola, Raimo, Orpana, Jessi and Huotari, Paavo, (eds.), Scriptures in the Making: Texts and Their Transmission in Late Second Temple Judaism. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 149-172. (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology)

Hezser, Catherine (2022) 'Review of: Abigail Gillman, A History of German Jewish Bible Translation, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.' Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 21 (1). pp. 123-124.

Hezser, Catherine (2022) 'What Was Jewish about Jewish Slavery in Late Antiquity?' In: de Wet, Chris L., Kahlos, Maijastina and Vuolanto, Ville, (eds.), Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150-700 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 129-148.

Hezser, Catherine (2021) ''He Who Sits Crowned on the Throne of His Glory': Body Posture in Hekhalot Rabbati and in Rabbinic Literature.' In: Hamidovic, David, Mimouni, Simon C. and Painchaud, Louis, (eds.), La "sacerdotalisation" dans les premiers écrits mystiques juifs et chrétiens. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols, pp. 41-56. (Judaïsme ancien et origines du christianisme (JAOC 22))

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'Catering to the Diaspora Within: Caesarea Maritima, Greek Prayer, and Rabbinic Judaism.' In: Patzelt, Maik, Rüpke, Jörg and Weissenrieder, Annette, (eds.), Prayer and the Ancient City: Influences of Urban Space. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 63-76. (Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Greco-Roman World, 5)

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'L'esclavage entre loi et l'histoire: Judée, VIIIe siècle avant notre ère - IVe siècle.' In: Ismard, Paulin, (ed.), Les Mondes de L'esclavage. Une histoire comparée. Paris: Seuil, pp. 61-66.

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'Neighbour, Townsperson, and Fellow Creature: The Regulation of Inter-Human Relationships in Palestinian Rabbinic Texts.' In: Bjelland Kartzow, Marianne, (ed.), The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbour in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions. London: Routledge, pp. 60-77. (Intersectional studies of Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and receptions)

George, Andrew (2021) 'Access to religious knowledge in ancient Babylonia.' In: Hezser, Catherine and Edelman, Diana, (eds.), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity. Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 20-35.

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'Did Palestinian Rabbis Know Roman Law? Methodological Considerations and Case Studies.' In: Berthelot, Katell, Dohrmann, Natalie and Nemo-Pekelman, Capucine, (eds.), Legal Engagement. The Reception of Roman Law and Tribunals by Jews and Other Inhabitants of the Empire. Rome: École française de Rome, pp. 303-322. (Collection de l'École Française de Rome 579)

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'Interaction between Rabbis and Non-Rabbinic Jews in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity.' In: Hezser, Catherine and Edelman, Diana, (eds.), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity. Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 145-165.

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'Introduction.' In: Hezser, Catherine and Edelman, Diana, (eds.), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity. Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 1-18.

Mirelman, Sam (2021) 'Public Lamentation in Ancient Mesopotamia.' In: Edelman, Diana and Hezser, Catherine, (eds.), The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity. Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 36-57.

Hezser, Catherine and Edelman, Diana, eds. (2021) The Use and Dissemination of Religious Knowledge in Antiquity. Sheffield: Equinox.

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'Review of: Hans Georg Thümmel: Ikonologie der christlichen Kunst, vol. 1: Alte Kirche. Paderborn: Schöningh (Brill) 2019.' Rottenburger Jahrbuchs für Kirchengeschichte, 39 . pp. 425-428.

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'Review of: Francesco Zanella, Vergeltungsvorstellungen in der tannaitischen Literatur (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019).' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 146 (6). pp. 538-540.

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'The Contested Image of King David in Rabbinic and Patristic Literature and Art of Late Antiquity.' In: Witte, Markus, Schröter, Jens and Lepper, Verena M., (eds.), Torah, Temple, Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 277-298. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 184)

Hezser, Catherine (2021) '"Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer Between Jewish and Graeco-Roman Culture: Using Insights from Cultural Studies".' In: Schmidt, Nora, Pissis, Nikolas and Uhlmann, Gyburg, (eds.), Wissensoikonomien: Ordnung und Transgression vormoderner Kulturen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 35-49. (Episteme in Bewegung Beiträge zu einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte)

Hezser, Catherine (2021) 'Review of: Michael Flexsenhar, Christians in Caesar’s Household: The Emperors’ Slaves in the Makings of Christianity (Pennsylvania State University Press 2019).' Review of Biblical Literature, 2021 .

Hezser, Catherine (2020) 'Review of: Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, Identity and Territory. Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019).' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 145 (10). pp. 920-922.

Hezser, Catherine (2020) 'Review of: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretical Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 71 (2). pp. 440-443.

Hezser, Catherine (2020) 'Review of: Frauen im antiken Judentum und frühen Christentum, ed. Jörg Frey and Nicole Rupschus, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019.' Review of Biblical Literature .

Hezser, Catherine, ed. (2020) The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine (paperback edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks)

Hezser, Catherine (2020) 'Recent Research on Travel, Network Theory, and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman Society (300 BCE -- 600 CE).' Jerusalem and Eretz Israel. A Journal for Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology = ירושלים וארץ-ישראל :‏ ‏כתב-עת ללימודי ארץ-ישראל וארכיאולוגיה., 2020 (12-13). pp. 13-28.

Hezser, Catherine (2020) 'Jewish Literacy and Languages in First-Century Roman Palestine.' Orientalia, 89 (1). pp. 58-77.

Hezser, Catherine (2020) 'Torah (Early Reception).' In: Homolka, Walter, Kampling, Rainer, Levine, Amy-Jill, Markschies, Christoph, Schäfer, Peter and Thurner, Martin, (eds.), Encyclopedia of Jewish Christian Relations Online. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Hezser, Catherine (2019) 'Women, Children, and Slaves in Rabbinic Law.' In: Barmash, Pamela, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 489-503. (Oxford handbooks)

Hezser, Catherine (2019) 'From Sinner to Model Ancestor: King David in Post-Biblical Jewish and Christian Literature and Art.' The Ancient Near East Today, 7 (10).

Hezser, Catherine (2019) '"Prayer in the Saying Source Q and in Early Rabbinic Texts".' In: Smith, Daniel A. and Heil, Christoph, (eds.), Prayer in the Sayings Gospel Q. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 103-122. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament)

Hezser, Catherine (2019) 'Rabbis as Intellectuals in the Context of Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Christian Scholasticism.' In: Adams, Sean A., (ed.), Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras: Greek, Latin, and Jewish. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 169-185. (Transmissions ; volume 2)

Hezser, Catherine (2019) 'Review of: Ilana L. Ramelli, Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity.' The Journal of Religion, 99 (3). pp. 395-397.

Hezser, Catherine (2019) 'Review of: Aidan Beatty and Dan O'Brien, eds. Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture. Irish Studies. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2018.' Journal of British Studies, 58 (2). pp. 438-440.

Hezser, Catherine (2019) 'Court, Rabbinic.' In: Bagnall, Roger S. and Brodersen, Kai, (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. online: Wiley.

Hezser, Catherine (2019) '"Review of: Richard Hidary, Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric. Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017".' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 144 (1/2). pp. 49-51.

Hezser, Catherine (2018) 'The Creation of the Talmud Yerushalmi and Apophthegmata Patrum as Monuments to the Rabbinic and Monastic Movements in Early Byzantine Times.' Jewish Studies Quarterly, 25 (4). pp. 368-393.

Hezser, Catherine (2018) '"Guidelines for the Ideal Way of Life: Rabbinic Halakhah and Hellenistic Practical Ethics".' In: Satlow, Michael, (ed.), Strength to Strength: Essays in Honor of Shaye J.D. Cohen. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown Judaic Studies, pp. 389-404.

Hezser, Catherine (2018) '"Review of: Peter Schäfer, Zwei Götter m Himmel. Gottesvorstellungen in der jüdischen Antike. München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2017".' Journal of Jewish Studies, 69 (2). pp. 417-419.

Hezser, Catherine (2018) Bild und Kontext. Jüdische und christliche Ikonographie der Spätantike. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Tria Corda)

Hezser, Catherine (2018) 'Followers, Servants, and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism.' In: Porter, Stanley E. and Pitts, Andrew W., (eds.), Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement. Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 71-86. (Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context)

Hezser, Catherine (2018) 'Self-Control in a World Controlled by Others: Palestinian Rabbinic 'Asceticism' in Late Antiquity.' Religion in the Roman Empire, 4 (1). pp. 9-27.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Review of: Walter Homolka, Jesus Reclaimed. Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015); Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today (Leiden: Brill, 2017).' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 142 (12). pp. 1320-1322.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Prostitution: Early Judaism.' In: Oxford Encyclopedias of the Bible (Oxford Scholarship Online). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Scholarship Online)

Hezser, Catherine (2017) Rabbinic Body Language: Non-Verbal Communication in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity. Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 179)

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Bookish Circles? The Use of Written Texts in Rabbinic Oral Culture.' Temas Medievales, 25. pp. 63-81.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Review of: Jonathan S. Milgram, From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah. Tannaitic Inheritance Law in Its Legal and Social Contexts, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 142 (11). pp. 1175-1177.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Review of: Julia Watts Belser, Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity. Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 142 (3). pp. 188-190.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Review of: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud, New York: CUP, 2013.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 68 (2). pp. 411-413.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) '"Scribes/scribality".' In: Thatcher, Tom, Keith, Chris, Person, Raymond F., Stern, Elsie R. and Odor, Judith, (eds.), The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media (DBAM). London: Bloomsbury, pp. 355-359.

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Strangers on the Road: Otherness, Identification, and Disguise in Rabbinic Travel Tales of Late Roman Palestine.' In: Niehoff, Maren R., (ed.), Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 239-253. (Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Greco-Roman World 1)

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Torah als ‘Gesetz’? Überlegungen zum Torahverständnis im antiken Judentum.' In: Rüterswörden, Udo, (ed.), Ist die Tora Gesetz? Zzum Gesetzesverständnis im Alten Testament, Frühjudentum, und Neuem Testament. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, pp. 119-140. (Biblisch-Theologische Studien 167)

Hezser, Catherine (2017) 'Uncertain Symbol: The Representation of Yavne in the Talmud Yerushalmi.' In: Schwartz, Joshua and Tomson, Peter J., (eds.), Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70‒132 CE. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 176-195. (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum)

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) '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) '"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) '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) '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) '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.

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)

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

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)

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

Hezser, Catherine (2015) 'From Oral Conversation to Written Texts: Randomness in the Transmission of Rabbinic Traditions.' In: Weissenrieder, Annette and Coote, Robert B., (eds.), The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, pp. 36-51. (Biblical Performance Criticism Series 11)

Hezser, Catherine (2015) 'Crossing Enemy Lines: Network Connections Between Palestinian and Babylonian Sages in Late Antiquity.' Journal for the Study of Judaism, 46 (2). pp. 224-250.

Hezser, Catherine (2015) 'Review of: Christian C. 'Sahner, Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present', London: Hurst and Company, 2014.' LSE Review of Books .

Hezser, Catherine (2015) 'Between Public and Private: The Significance of the Neutral Domain (Carmelit) in Late Antique Rabbinic Literature.' In: Ruepke, Joerg and Ando, Clifford, (eds.), Private and Public in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 217-236.

Hezser, Catherine (2015) '"Der Loskauf von Sklaven und Kriegsgefangenen im antiken Judentum".' In: Grieser, Heike and Priesching, Nicole, (eds.), Gefangenenloskauf im Mittelmeerraum: Ein interreligioeser Vergleich. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, pp. 3-23. (Sklaverei - Knechtschaft - Zwangsarbeit vol. 13)

Hezser, Catherine (2015) 'Review of: Mira Balberg, Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 66 (2). pp. 442-444.

Hezser, Catherine (2015) 'Review of: Nikolsky, Ronit and Ilan, Tal (eds), Rabbinic Traditions Between Palestine and Babylonia, Leiden: Brill, 2014.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 66 (1). pp. 217-219.

Hezser, Catherine (2015) 'Review of: Thierry Murcia, Jésus dans le Talmud et la littérature rabbinique ancienne, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 140 (10). pp. 1071-1072.

Hezser, Catherine (2015) 'Review of: Vidas, Moulie: Tradition and Formation of the Talmud, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 66 (1). pp. 219-222.

Hezser, Catherine (2015) 'Review of: Weiss Halivni, David, The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud. Introduced, translated, and annotated by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 66 (1). pp. 215-217.

Hezser, Catherine (2015) '"Slavery: Rabbinic Literature".' In: Strawn, Brent A., (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law, Vol. 2. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 312-319.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: David Kaposi, Violence and Understanding in Gaza: The British Broadsheets' Coverage of the War, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.' LSE Review of Books .

Hezser, Catherine (2014) '"Paul's 'Fool's Speech' (2 Cor. 11:16-32) in the Context of Ancient Jewish and Graeco-Roman Culture".' In: Tomson, Peter J., (ed.), Second Corinthians in the Perspective of Late Second Temple Judaism. Leiden: Brill, pp. 221-244. (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Volume: 14)

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Sarah Ferber, 'Bioethics in Historical Perspective'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.' LSE Review of Books .

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Marcel Danesi, 'The History of the Kiss! The Birth of Popular Culture', Palgrave Macmillan , 2013.' LSE Review of Books .

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Geldstrafen, Peitschenhiebe, und goettliche Vergeltung: Strafdrohungen in der Mischna.' Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte, 20. pp. 201-214.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of Jenny Labendz, 'Socratic Torah: Non-Jews in Rabbinic Intellectual Culture'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 65 (2). pp. 425-427.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Alan Appelbaum, The Dynasty of the Jewish Patriarchs, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (7/8). pp. 859-861.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Alexander Samely et al., 'Profiling Jewish Literature in Antiquity: An Inventory, from Second Temple Texts to the Talmud'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 65 (2). pp. 423-425.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Katrin Pietzner, Bildung, Elite, und Konkurrenz. Heiden und Christen vor der Zeit Constantins, STAC 77, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (1). pp. 79-80.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Margaret H. Williams, 'Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment'. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (5). pp. 561-563.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) '"Review of: Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012".' Journal of Semitic Studies, 59 (2). pp. 459-460.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Rachel Neis, 'The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture. Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (5). pp. 557-559.

Hezser, Catherine (2014) 'Review of: Shai Secunda, The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in its Sasanian Context, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 139 (7/8). pp. 867-869.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Ancient 'Science Fiction': Journeys into Space and Visions of the World in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Literature of Antiquity.' In: Porter, Stanley E. and Pitts, Andrew W., (eds.), Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism: Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament; Vol.2 Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context. Leiden: Brill, pp. 397-438. (Texts and editions for New Testament study, 1574-7085)

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Dirt and Garbage in the Ancient Jewish Religious Imagination and in Daily Life.' In: Boustan, Raanan S., Herrmann, Klaus, Leicht, Raimund and Reed, Annette Y., (eds.), Envisioning Judaism. Studies in Honor of Peter Schaefer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 107-127.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Freak, Not Sage: An Exploration into Freakishness in Modern Jewish Culture.' Culture and Dialogue, 3 (1). pp. 51-72.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'The Jesus Movement as a 'Popular' Judaism for the Unlearned.' In: von Gemuenden, Petra, Horrell, David G. and Kuechler, Max, (eds.), Jesus - Gestalt und Gestaltungen. Rezeptionen des Galilaeers in Wissenschaft, Kirche und Gesellschaft. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, pp. 79-104.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Law, Jewish.' In: Bagnall, Roger S., Brodersen, Kai and Champion, Craige B., (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., pp. 3947-3949.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Part Whore, Part Wife: Slave Women in the Palestinian Rabbinic Tradition.' In: Eisen, Ute E., Gerber, Christine and Standhartinger, Angela, (eds.), Doing Gender - Doing Religion. Fallstudien zur Intersektionalitaet im fruehen Judentum, Christentum und Islam. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 303-324.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Review of: Benjamin Isaac and Yuval Shahar, eds., Judaea-Palaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in Antiquity, Tuebingen: mohr Siebeck, 2012.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 138 (4). pp. 422-424.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Review of: Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, Yehudah Cohn, and Fergus Millar, 'Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity, 135-700 CE'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 76 (3). pp. 497-499.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Review of: Geoffrey Herman, 'A Prince Without a Kingdom: The Exilarch in the Sasanian Era'. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 138 (7/8). pp. 790-792.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Review of: Hayim Lapin, Rabbis as Romans. The Rabbinic Movement in Palestine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 138 (4). pp. 428-430.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Review of: Lutz Doering, Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 138 (6). pp. 665-667.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Review of: Naftali S. Cohn, The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 138 (10). pp. 1077-1079.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Samuel Krauss' Contribution to the Study of Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman Culture in the Context of Wissenschaft Scholarship.' Modern Judaism, 33 (3). pp. 1-31.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Seduced by the Enemy or Wise Strategy? The Presentation of Non-Violence and Accommodation with Foreign Powers in Ancient Jewish Literary Sources.' In: Albertz, Rainer and Woehrle, Jakob, (eds.), Between Cooperation and Hostility. Multiple Identities in Ancient Judaism and the Interaction with Foreign Powers. Goettingen and Bristol, CT: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, pp. 221-250.

Hezser, Catherine (2013) 'Zukunftshoffnung nach der Shoah? Messianismus, Utopie und Unsterblichkeit im Denken von Zygmunt Bauman und Emmanuel Levinas.' In: Palmer, Gesine and Brose, Thomas, (eds.), Religion und Politik: Das Messianische in Theologien, Religionswissenschaften und Philosophien des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 191-207.

Hezser, Catherine (2012) '"Review of: Peter J. Beck, Presenting History: Past and Present, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011".' LSE Review of Books, 2012 .

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Review of John A. Hall, 'Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography'. London and New York: Verso. 2011.' LSE Review of Books .

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Review of: Moshe Halbertal, On Sacrifice. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2012.' LSE Review of Books .

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Orality, Textuality, and Memory in the Transmission of Rabbinic Legal Narratives.' In: Adam, Klaus-Peter, Avemarie, Friedrich and Wazana, Nili, (eds.), Law and Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 279-295. (Forschungen zum Alten Testament., 2. Reihe ; 54.)

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Review of Reuven Firestone, Holy War in Judaism: The Fall and Rise of a Controversial Idea, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.' LSE Review of Books .

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Review of: Alexei Sivertsev, Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: CUP, 2011.' Gnomon, 84 . pp. 760-761.

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Review of: Holger M. Zellentin, Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature, TSAJ 139, Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck 2011.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 137 (1). pp. 32-33.

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Review of: Jodi Magness, 'Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Daily Life in the Time of Jesus'. Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011.' The Journal of Theological Studies, 63 (1).

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Review of: Joseph Patrich, Studies in the Archaeology and History of Caesarea Maritima, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 137 (7-8). pp. 799-800.

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Review of: Korbinian Spann, Beschreibung und Wahrnehmung des Fremden in der rabbinischen Literatur, Bern 2010.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 107 (4-5). pp. 266-268.

Hezser, Catherine (2012) 'Review of: Ra'anan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, Marina Rustow (eds.), "Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History. Authority, Diaspora, Tradition". Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 137 (2). pp. 153-154.

Hezser, Catherine (2011) Jewish Travel in Antiquity. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism; 144)

Hezser, Catherine (2011) 'Neuere Forschungen zum Rabbinischen Judentum.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 136 (2). pp. 218-234.

Hezser, Catherine (2011) 'Review of: Johanna Erzberger, Kain, Abel und Israel. Die Rezeption von Gen 4,1-16 in rabbinischen Midraschim. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2011.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 106 (6). pp. 398-399.

Hezser, Catherine (2011) 'Slavery and the Jews.' In: Bradley, Keith and Cartledge, Paul, (eds.), The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 1: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 438-455.

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'Form-Criticism of Rabbinic Literature.' In: Bieringer, Reimund, Garcia Martinez, Florentino, Pollefeyt, Didier and Tomson, Peter J., (eds.), The New Testament and Rabbinic Literature. Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 97-110. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'Material Culture and Daily Life.' In: Goodman, Martin, (ed.), Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 301-317. (Proceedings of the British Academy, no.165)

Hezser, Catherine (2010) '"Correlating Literary, Epigraphic, and Archaeological Sources".' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 9-27. (Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History)

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'From Oral Conversations to Written Texts: Randomness in the Transmission of Rabbinic Traditions.' In: Weissenrieder, Annette and Coote, Robert B., (eds.), The Interface of Orality and Writing. Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 36-51. (WUNT 260)

Hezser, Catherine (2010) '"The Graeco-Roman Context of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine".' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 28-47. (Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History)

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'Oral and Written Communication and Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient Judaism and Christianity.' Oral Tradition, 25 (1). pp. 75-92.

Hezser, Catherine, ed. (2010) The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History)

Hezser, Catherine (2010) '"Private and Public Education".' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 465-481. (Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History)

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'Review of Devora Steinmetz, Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law, Philadelphia 2008.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 61 (1). p. 178.

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'Review of Gwynn Kessler, Conceiving Israel: The Foetus in Rabbinic Narratives, Philadelphia 2009.' Review of Biblical Literature .

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'Review of Tal Ilan and Thomas Ziem, Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity, Part III: The Western Diaspora 333 BCE - 650 CE, Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2008.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 61 (1). pp. 178-179.

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'Review of: Albert I. Baumgarten, Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews. A Twentieth Century Tale, Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck 2010.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 135 (10). pp. 1080-1082.

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'Review of: Eckart Reinmuth (ed.), Joseph und Aseneth. Eingeleitet, ediert, uebersetzt u.m. interpretierenden Essays versehen. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2009.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 135 (10). pp. 1086-1088.

Hezser, Catherine (2010) 'Review of: The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film, ed. John Lyden, London 2009.' Culture and Religion, 11 (3). pp. 305-307.

Hezser, Catherine (2010) '"Travel and Mobility".' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 210-226. (Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History)

Hezser, Catherine (2009) 'Ben-Hur and Ancient Jewish Slavery.' In: Rogers, Zuleika, (ed.), A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 121-139. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, v.132)

Hezser, Catherine (2009) 'Review of: Annelies Kuyt and Gerold Necker (eds.), 'Orient als Grenzbereich? Rabbinisches und ausserrabbinisches' Judentum, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 134 (3). pp. 283-284.

Hezser, Catherine (2009) 'Review of: David Brodsky, 'A Bride Without a Blessing: A Study in the Redaction and Content of Massekhet Kallah and Its Gemara', Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2006.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 60 (1). pp. 154-156.

Hezser, Catherine (2009) 'Review of: David Daube, The Deed and the Doer in the Bible. David Daube's Giffort Lectured, ed. Calum Carmichael. West Conshohoken, Penn.: Templeton Foundation Press, 2008.' Hebraic political studies, 4 (2). pp. 190-194.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of Israel J. Yuval, 'Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages'.' Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 76 (1). pp. 202-205.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'The Halitza Shoe: Between Female Subjugation and Symbolic Emasculation.' In: Nahshon, Edna, (ed.), Jews and Shoes. Oxford and New York: Berg, pp. 47-63.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Rabbinische Gleichnisse und ihre Vergleichbarkeit mit neutestamentlichen Gleichnissen.' In: Zimmermann, Ruben, (ed.), Hermeneutik der Gleichnisse Jesu. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 217-237. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, XX)

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of Alexander Samely, 'Forms of Rabbinic Literature and Thought. An Introduction'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 59 (2). pp. 328-329.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of Rivka Ulmer, ed., 'Discussing Cultural Differences. Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism', Lanham: University Press of America, 2007.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 133 (10). pp. 1055-1057.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of: Emmanuel Friedheim, 'Rabbinisme et Paganisme en Palestine romaine'. Etude historique des Realia talmudiques (I - IV siecles), Leiden: Brill, 2006.' Frankfurter Judaistische Beitraege, 34 . pp. 201-204.

Hezser, Catherine (2008) 'Review of: Juergen Zangenberg et al. (eds), 'Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee'. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2007.' Frankfurter Judaistische Beitraege, 34 . pp. 204-208.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Review of Peter Schäfer, 'Jesus in the Talmud'.' Review of Biblical Literature .

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Passover and Social Equality: Women, Slaves and Minors in Bavli Pesahim.' In: Ilan, Tal, (ed.), A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 91-107.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Post-Colonialism and the Irish-Jewish Experience: The novels of David Marcus and Ronit Lentin.' In: Staehler, Axel, (ed.), Anglophone Jewish Literature. London: Routledge, pp. 143-160.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Review of Christopher Deacy, 'Faith in Films. Religious Themes in Contemporary Cinema'.' Culture and Religion, 8 (1). pp. 105-107.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Review of Dagmar Börner-Klein, 'Pirke de-Rabbi Elieser'.' Jewish Quarterly Review, 97 (2). pp. 39-42.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Review of H.-J. Becker/C. Berner, 'Avot de-Rabbi-Natan. Synoptische Edition beider Versionen'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 58 (2). pp. 348-350.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Review of Marc Bregman, 'The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions'.' Jewish Quarterly Review, 97 (2). pp. 39-42.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Review of Ronen Reichman, 'Abduktives Denken und talmudische Argumentation'.' Theologische Literaturzeitung, 132 . pp. 150-152.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Review of S. Safrai, Z. Safrai, J. Schwartz, P.J. Tompson (eds), 'The Literature of the Sages, Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature'. CRINT II.3a, Van Gorcum, 2006.' The Expository Times, 118 (11). pp. 570-571.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Review of Vered Noam, 'Megillat Ta’anit: Versions, Interpretation, History [Hebr.]'.' Jewish Quarterly Review, 97 (2). pp. 39-42.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Review of: Stuart S. Miller, 'Sages and Commoners in Late Antique Erez Israel. A Philological Inquiry into Local Traditions in Talmud Yerushalmi'. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2006.' Jahrbuch fuer Antike und Christentum, 50 . pp. 220-222.

Hezser, Catherine (2007) 'Roman Law and Rabbinic Legal Composition.' In: Fonrobert, Charlotte and Jaffee, Martin, (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Rabbinic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 144-163.

Hezser, Catherine (2006) 'From Study House to Marketplace: Rabbinic Guidelines for the Economy of Roman Palestine.' Antiquité Tardive, 14. pp. 39-45.

Hezser, Catherine (2006) 'The Impact of Other Disciplines Upon Biblical Scholarship: Diaspora and Rabbinic Judaism.' In: Rogerson, John and Lieu, Judith, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford university Press, pp. 120-132.

Hezser, Catherine (2006) 'Review of Eliezer Diamond, 'Holy Men and Hunger Artists. Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 57 (2). pp. 358-360.

Hezser, Catherine (2006) 'Review of Jacob Neusner, 'The Social Teaching of Rabbinic Judaism'.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 101 (1). pp. 56-59.

Hezser, Catherine (2006) 'Review of Michael Fishbane, 'Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 57 (2). pp. 350-352.

Hezser, Catherine (2006) 'Review of Rabbi Chaim Malinowitz (ed.), 'The Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 57 (2). pp. 356-358.

Hezser, Catherine (2005) '‘Are You Protestant Jews, Or Roman Catholic Jews?’ - Literary Representations of Being Jewish in Ireland.' Modern Judaism, 25 (2). pp. 159-188.

Hezser, Catherine (2005) Jewish Slavery in Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hezser, Catherine (2005) 'Review of Azzan Yadin 'Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 56 (2). pp. 349-350.

Hezser, Catherine (2005) 'Review of David Instone-Brewer, 'Traditions of the Rabbis from the Era of the New Testament, vol.1: Prayer and Agriculture'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 56 (2). pp. 347-349.

Hezser, Catherine (2005) 'Review of Elke Tönges, 'Unser Vater im Himmel: Die Bezeichnung Gottes als Vater in der tannaitischen Literatur'.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 100 (1). pp. 76-80.

Hezser, Catherine (2005) 'Review of Sacha Stern, 'Time and Process in Ancient Judaism'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 56 (2). pp. 350-352.

Hezser, Catherine (2005) '‘The Slave of a Scholar is Like a Scholar’: Stories About Rabbis and Their Slaves in the Babylonian Talmud.' In: Rubenstein, Jeffrey, (ed.), Creation and Composition: The Contribution of the Bavli Redactors. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 198-217.

Hezser, Catherine (2005) 'Toward the Study of Jewish Popular Culture in Roman Palestine.' In: Perani, Mauro, (ed.), "The Words of a Wise Man’s Mouth Are Gracious" (Qoh. 10,12): Festschrift. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 267-297.

Hezser, Catherine (2004) 'Review of Ray Rivlin, 'Shalom Ireland: A Social History of the Jews in Modern Ireland'.' Times Literary Supplement, 5 (1).

Hezser, Catherine (2004) 'Review of Guiseppe Veltri, 'Gegenwart der Tradition. Studien zur jüdischen Literatur und Kulturgeschichte'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 55 (1). pp. 176-178.

Hezser, Catherine (2004) 'Review of Michael Satlow, 'Jewish Marriage in Antiquity'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 55 (1). pp. 178-180.

Hezser, Catherine (2003) 'Der Rabbi als spezifisch juedische Identifikationsfigur der Spaetantike.' In: Aland, Barbara, Hahn, Johannes and Ronning, Christian, (eds.), Literarische Konstituierung von Identifikationsfiguren in der Antike. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 139-153. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum)

Hezser, Catherine (2003) 'The Exposure and Sale of Infants in Rabbinic and Roman Law.' In: Herrmann, Klaus, Schlueter, Margarete and Veltri, Giuseppe, (eds.), Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines. Leiden: Brill, pp. 3-28.

Hezser, Catherine (2003) 'The Impact of Household Slaves On the Jewish Family in Roman Palestine.' Journal for the Study of Judaism, 34 (4). pp. 375-424.

Hezser, Catherine (2003) 'Literacy and the Use of Writing in Jewish and Roman Society of Late Antiquity.' In: Kalmin, Richard and Schwartz, Seth, (eds.), Jewish Culture and Society Under the Christian Roman Empire. Leiden and New York: Peeters, pp. 149-195.

Hezser, Catherine, ed. (2003) Rabbinic Law in Its Roman and Near Eastern Context. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism)

Hezser, Catherine (2003) 'Review of Alexander Samely, 'Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah'.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 54 (1). pp. 167-168.

Hezser, Catherine (2003) 'Review of Jennifer Glancy, 'Slavery in Early Christianity'.' Scripta Classica Israelica, 22 . pp. 1-3.

Hezser, Catherine (2003) 'Slaves and Slavery in Rabbinic and Roman Law.' In: Hezser, Catherine, (ed.), Rabbinic Law in Its Roman and Near Eastern Context. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 133-176.

Hezser, Catherine (2002) 'Classical Rabbinic Literature.' In: Goodman, Martin, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 115-140.

Hezser, Catherine (2002) 'Einheit und Vielfalt in der rabbinischen Halakhah.' In: Konradt, Matthias and Steinert, Ulrike, (eds.), Ethos und Identität. Einheit und Vielfalt des Judentums in hellenistisch-römischer Zeit. Paderborn: Schöningh, pp. 149-163.

Hezser, Catherine (2002) 'The Mishnah and Ancient Book Production.' In: Neusner, J. and Avery-Peck, A. J., (eds.), The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective. Vol.1. Leiden: Brill, pp. 167-192.

Hezser, Catherine, ed. (2002) Representing the Shoah for the 21st Century. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Jewish Studies Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2)

Hezser, Catherine (2002) 'Review of Calum E. Carmichael (ed.), 'Essays on Law and Religion. The Berkeley and Oxford Symposia in Honour of David Daube'.' Journal of Law and Religion, 17 . pp. 137-140.

Hezser, Catherine (2002) 'Review of Louis Jacobs, 'A Tree of Life. Diversity, Flexibility, and Creativity in Jewish Law'.' Journal of Law and Religion, 17 . pp. 133-136.

Hezser, Catherine (2002) 'Review of Phyllis Holman, 'Weisbard and David Schonberg, Jewish Law: Bibliography of Sources and Scholarship in English'.' Journal of Law and Religion, 17 . pp. 141-142.

Hezser, Catherine (2002) 'Shoah Survivors and the Second Generation in American Jewish Writing: Bernard Malamud, Rebecca Goldstein, Thane Rosenbaum.' Jewish Studies Quarterly, 9 (2). pp. 143-159.

Hezser, Catherine (2002) 'The Social Status of Slaves in the Talmud Yerushalmi and in Graeco-Roman Society.' In: Schaefer, Peter, (ed.), The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture. Vol. 3. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 91-137.

Hezser, Catherine (2001) 'Freud’s Oedipus-Complex and the Problems of Jewish Assimilation in the Writings of Franz Kafka and Philip Roth.' Jewish Studies Quarterly, 8. pp. 248-278.

Hezser, Catherine (2001) Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism; 81)

Hezser, Catherine (2000) 'The (In)Significance of Jerusalem in the Talmud Yerushalmi.' In: Hezser, Catherine and Schäfer, Peter, (eds.), The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture. Vol.2. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 11-49.

Hezser, Catherine (2000) 'Interfaces Between Rabbinic Literature and Graeco-Roman Philosophy.' In: Hezser, Catherine and Schäfer, Peter, (eds.), The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture. Vol.2. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 161-187.

Hezser, Catherine (2000) 'Rabbis and Other Friends: Friendship in the Talmud Yerushalmi and in Graeco-Roman Literature.' In: Hezser, Catherine and Schäfer, Peter, (eds.), The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture. Vol.2. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 189-254.

Hezser, Catherine (2000) 'Review of Hans-Jürgen Becker, 'Die grossen rabbinischen Sammelwerke Palästinas. Zur literarischen Genese von Talmud Yerushalmi und Midrash Bereshit Rabba'.' Journal for the Study of Judaism, 31 (3). pp. 305-308.

Hezser, Catherine (2000) 'Review of Tal Ilan, 'Integrating Women into Second Temple History'.' Frankfurter Judaistische Beitraege, 27 . pp. 157-164.

Hezser, Catherine and Schäfer, Peter, eds. (2000) The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture. Vol. 2. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism)

Hezser, Catherine (1998) 'The Codification of Legal Knowledge in Late Antiquity: The Talmud Yerushalmi and Roman Law Codes.' In: Schäfer, Peter, (ed.), The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture. Vol.1. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 581-641.

Hezser, Catherine (1998) '‘Privat’ und ‘öffentlich’ im Talmud Yerushalmi und in der griechisch-römischen Antike.' In: Schäfer, Peter, (ed.), The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture. Vol.1. Tuebingen: Mohr-Siebeck, pp. 423-579.

Hezser, Catherine (1997) '‘Joseph and Aseneth’ in the Context of Ancient Greek Erotic Novels.' Frankfurter Judaistische Beitraege, 24. pp. 1-40.

Hezser, Catherine (1997) The Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman Palestine. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism; v.66)

Hezser, Catherine (1996) 'Die Verwendung der Hellenistischen Gattung Chrie im frühen Christentum und Judentum.' Journal for the Study of Judaism, 27 (4). pp. 371-439.

Hezser, Catherine (1995) 'Apophthegmata Patrum and Apophthegmata of the Rabbis.' In: La Narrativa Cristiana Antica. Codici Narrativi, Strutture Formali, Schemi Retorici. Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, pp. 453-464. (Studia Ephemeridia Augustinianum)

Hezser, Catherine (1993) Form, Function, and Historical Significance of the Rabbinic Story in Yerushalmi Neziqin. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism; v.37)

Hezser, Catherine (1993) 'Social Fragmentation, Plurality of Opinion, and Nonobservance of Halakhah: Rabbis and Community in Late Roman Palestine.' Jewish Studies Quarterly, 1. pp. 234-251.

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