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Authored Books

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

Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan Semi, Emanuela (2002) Judaising Movements: Studies in the Margins of Judaism. London: Routledge.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2011) Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. (Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Klasse 819; Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 61)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2000) The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Nota Bene)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Hamzić, Vanja, ed. (2007) Base-line Study on Faith-based Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges of Non-patriarchal Communities and Approach / Osnovna studija o vjerskom razvoju u Bosni i Hercegovini: Izazov vanpatrijarhalnih zajednica i pristupa. Sarajevo: Logos.

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

Zene, Cosimo, ed. (2013) Religion and Dialogue. Special issue of Culture and Dialogue, Vol.3, No. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars. (Culture and Dialogue)

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)

Book Chapters

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

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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2021) 'The Adoption of the Swedish Rite in Eighteenth-Century Russia – Acculturation, Power Politics and Mysticism.' In: Hartley, Janet M. and Shaw, Denis J. B., (eds.), Magic, texts and travels: homage to a scholar, Will Ryan. London: Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, pp. 79-99.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2014) 'Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium.' In: La Porta, Sergio and Bardakjian, Kevork, (eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition. A Comparative Perspective. Leiden: Brill, pp. 379-433. (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, Volume: 25)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2016) 'Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research.' In: Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali, De Cillis, Maria, De Smet, Daniel and Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan, (eds.), L'Ésotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements Shi'i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments. Turnhout, Belgium: Belgium, pp. 723-742. (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, vol. 177)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2015) 'Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions.' In: Silverstein, Adam J. and Stroumsa, Guy G., (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 405-425. (Oxford Handbooks)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2020) 'The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates.' In: Ferrari, Silvio and Benzo, Andrea, (eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 25-36. (Cultural Diversity and Law)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism.' In: Blidstein, Moshe, Ruzer, Serge and Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel, (eds.), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 203-217. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 112)

Journal Article

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha.' Scrinium, 14 (1). pp. 334-350.

Waghmar, Burzine (2013) 'Complaisant Pakistanis, Condescending Persians: Orientalist Observations on Iran-Pakistan Relations.' Studies on Iran: Responses, Articles, 1. pp. 186-194.

Waghmar, Burzine (2015) 'Jinnah's Jews: a Jeremiad.' Studies on Israel, 5. pp. 213-235.

Book Reviews

Stoyanov, Yuri (2016) 'Review of: Gideon Avni, 'The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79 (1). pp. 179-181.