Ora Limor, Professor

Contact Info

The Open University of Israel 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 4353701
Email:orali@openu.ac.il

Areas of Interest

Jewish-Christian polemics and cultural encounters in the Middle Ages
Sacred traditions of the Holy Land
Jerusalem: Holiness between Three Religions
Pilgrimage and travel narratives in Christian, Jewish and Moslem culture
Conversion, conversion literature, conversion of space

Ora Limor, Professor

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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

Academic Appointments

2013-2020	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

Administrative Activities

2013-2015 - 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

Other Professional Activities

2020 - Member of the Azrieli Fellowship Committee in Humanities

2018 - Head of the Steering Committee of The Ronnie Ellenblum Jerusalem History Knowledge Center

2017 - Member, Academic Board, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS), Jerusalem

2017-2022 Member, Academic Board, Hochschule für Jüdische Studies (HFJS), Heidelberg

2016-2023 - Member, Academic Board, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2014-2016 - Member of the Nation Steering Committee for the Humanities

2013 - Member, The Israel Prize Committee in Jewish History

2007 - Member, The Israel Prize Committee in the Study of Eretz Israel

2005-2006 - 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

Membership on Editorial Boards

2013-2019	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)
2004-2014	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)

Referee of Articles in Journals

Inter Alia:

Zion

Tarbiz

Historia

Pe'amim

Zmanim

Cathedra

Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies

Early Medieval Europe

Jewish Studies Quarterly

Journal for Early Christian Studies

Medieval Encounters

The Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR)

Scottish Review

Antisemitism Studies

Studies in Jewish Christian Relations

Harvard Theological Review (HTR)

The Medieval Review (TMR)

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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Books and Monographs

The Mount of Olives: A Biography (forthcoming).

Jerusalem Travels: Christian Pilgrims in the Early Middle Ages (Hebrew translations from the Latin, introductions and notes), (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi 2022)

Pilgrimage: Jews, Christians, Muslims (with Elchanan Reiner and Miriam Frenkel), (Raanana: The Open University, 2014)

Holy Land Travels: Christian Pilgrims in Late Antiquity (Hebrew translations from the Latin, introductions and notes), (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi,1998)

Die Disputationen zu Ceuta (1179) und Mallorca (1286): Zwei antijudische Schriften aus dem mittelalterlichen Genua, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 15 (Munich 1994)

The Disputation of Majorca 1286: A Critical Edition and Introduction (2 vols., Latin text and Hebrew Introduction) (Jerusalem: Publications of the School of Graduate Studies, The Hebrew University, 1985)

Edited Books

Ora Limor, Hillel Newman, Joseph Patrich (eds.), Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity: Introductions and Studies (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2022 (2 vols., Hebrew)

Ora Limor, Ram Ben-Shalom, Oded Irshai, The Elder will Serve the Younger: Myths and Symbols in Dialogue between Judaism and Christianity (Jerusalem: Carmel Press, 2022) (Hebrew)

Ora Limor, Meir Litvak (eds), Religious Radicalism (Jerusalem: Merkaz Shazar, 2008) (Hebrew)

Amir Horowitz, Ora Limor, Ram Ben-Shalom, Avriel Bar-Levav (eds.), The Past and Beyond: Studies in History and Philosophy Presented to Elazar Weinryb (Raanana: The Open University, 2006) (Hebrew)

Ora Limor, Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land: From the Origins to the Latin Kingdoms, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006)

Ora Limor and Elchanan Reiner, Pilgrimage: Jews, Christians, Moslems, A Reader (Raanana: Open University Press, 2005) (Hebrew)

Yom-Tov Assis, Jeremy Cohen, Ora Limor, Michael Toch (eds.), Facing the Cross: The Persecutions of 1096 in History and Historiography (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2000 (Hebrew).

Ora Limor, Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Contra Iudaeos: Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews (Tübingen: Mohr [Siebeck], 1996)

Chapters in Books

'Ecclesia Pulchra Satis': The Rise and Decline of the Eleona Church on the Mount of Olives', Oded Irshai and Adele Reinhartz (eds.), In Praise of Wisdom: Studies on the Social and Cultural World of Jews and Christians in Antiquity in Honour of Paula Fredriksen (Berlin: De Gruyter) (forthcoming)

'Mary's Mount: The Emergence of the Mount of Olives as a Marian Landscape', Paula Fredriksen, Oded Irshai, Jonathan Moss (eds.), Syriac and Late Ancient Studies, Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies (Gorgias Press) (forthcoming)

'Hermeneutical Objects in Late Antique Jerusalem', Ram Ben-Shalom and Yossi Israeli (eds.), The Hermeneutical Jew, (Turnhout: Brepols) (forthcoming 2025)

'Extra-Canonical Holy Places and their Fate', Harald Buchinger, Andreas Merkt, Tobias Nicklas (eds.), Extra- Canonical Traditions and the Holy Land (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck) (forthcoming)

'Women Pilgrims in the Holy Land: From Egeria to Marjery Kempe', Andrew Jotischky and William Purkis (eds.), Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage,(Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2024), pp. 133-157

'Divina Vestigia': Tracking the Early History of Jesus' Footprint on the Mount of Olives'. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Martin Goddman (eds.), Essays on Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity in Honour of Oded Irshai (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), pp. 181-201

"'A Place of Fire": Religious Tension over Jerusalem Fire', Ram Ben-Shalom, Ora Limor, Oded Irshai (eds.), The Elder will Serve the Younger: Myth and Symbols in Dialogue between Judaism and Christianity (Jerusalem: Carmel Press, 2022), pp. 277-305 (Hebrew)

'Jewish and Christian Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Roman and Byzantine Times', Katharina Heyden and Maria Lissek (eds.), Jerusalem II: Jeru seriessalem in Roman-Byzantine Times, COMES (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021), pp. 311-324

'Wondrous Nature: Landscape and Weather in Early Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives', Joshua Levinson and Orit Bashkin (eds.), Jews and Journeys: Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), pp. 46-62

'Jerusalem and Eschatology', Suleiman A. Mourad, Naomi Koltun-Fromm, and Bedross der Matossian, Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem (Routledge: Park, 2019), pp. 351-360

Willibald in the Holy Places', Stefan Esders, Yaniv Fox, Yitzhak Hen, Lauri Sarti, (eds.), East and West in the Early Middle Ages: The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 230-244

'Tales from the East: Jewish Episodes in Early Medieval Travel Narratives', Yitzhak Hen and Thomas F.X. Noble (eds.), Barbarians and Jews: Jews and Judaism in the Early Medieval West (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 279-298

'The Tale of the Shroud: An Inter-Religious Encounter in Seventh-Century Jerusalem through the Eyes of an Irish Monk', Tova Rosen, Nili Aryeh-Sapir, David Rotman, Tsafi Sebba-Elran (eds.), Essays in Folklore and Jewish Studies in Honor of Professor Eli Yassif (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2017), pp. 275-299 (Hebrew).

'Earth, Stone, Water and Oil: Objects of Veneration in Holy Land Travel Narratives', Renana Bartal, Neta Bodner, Bianca Kühnel (eds.), Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place 500-1500 (London and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 3-18

'Scents from the Holy Land', Emmanuel Etkes, David Assaf, Yosef Kaplan (eds.), Avney Derech in honour of Zvi Yekutieli (Jerusalem: Shazar Institute, 2015), pp. 123-134

'Jerusalem', David Wallace (ed.), Europe: A Literary History 1348-1418 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), Vol. 2, pp. 217-243.

'Placing an Idea: The Valley of Jehoshaphat in Religious Imagination Renana Bartal, Hanna Vorholt (eds.), Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel (leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 280-300

'Mary in Jerusalem: An Imaginary Map', Bianca Kühnel, Galit Noga-Banai and Hanna Vorholt (eds.), Visual Constructs of Jerusalem (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 11-22

'Conversion of Space', Ira Katzenelson and Miri Rubin (eds.), Religious Conversion: History, Experience and Meaning (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 31-59

'Judas Iscariot: Revealer of the Hidden Truth' (with Israel Jacob Yuval), Peter Schäfer, Michael Meerson and Yaacov Deutsch (eds.), Toledot Yeshu (The Life-Story of Jesus) Revisited, Tübingen (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011), pp. 197-220

'Judas Ischariot und die Juden' (with Israel Jacob Yuval), Lukas Clemens and Sigfrid Hirbodian (eds.), Christliches und jüdisches Europa im Mittelalter: Kolloquium zu Ehren von Alfred Haverkamp (Trier: Kliomedia, 2011), pp. 197-205

'Early Pilgrimage Itineraries (333-1099)', Brill's Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (Leiden: Brill, 2009)

'The Erection of Essential Boundaries: Christians and Jews', Miri Walter Simon (eds.), The Cambridge History of Rubin and Christianity IV: Christianity in Western Europe, c.1100-c.1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 135-148

'Sharing Sacred Space: Holy Places in Jerusalem Between Christianity, Judaism and Islam', Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith (eds.), In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar (Aldershot: Ashgate 2007), pp. 219-231

'Polemics, Literature and History', 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 (Raanana: The Open University, 2006), pp. 79-98 (Hebrew).

'"Holy Journey": Pilgrimage and Christian Sacred Landscape', Ora Limor and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), pp. 321-353

'Skepticism and Conversion: Jews, Christians and Doubters in Sefer ha-Nizzahon' (with Israel J. Yuval), 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, 2004), pp. 159-180

'Jews as Heretics', Norman Roth (ed.), Medieval Jewish Civilization. An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 330-332

With their Own Eyes: Pilgrims Tell their Stories', Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, Elchanan Reiner and Yossi Ben-Arzi (eds.), Studies in the History of Eretz Israel Presented to Yehuda Ben Porat (Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 2003), pp. 383-409 (Hebrew).

'Reading Sacred Space: Egeria, Paula, and the Christian Holy Land', Yitzhak Hen (ed.), De Sion exibit lex et verbum domini de Hierusalem. Essays on Medieval Law, Liturgy and Literature in Honour of Amnon Linder (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), pp. 1-15

'Antonini Placentini Itinerarium', 'Arculf', 'Bordeaux Pilgrim', John Block Friedman and Kristen Mossler Figg (eds.), Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages, An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Garland, 2000)

'Christian Pilgrims in the Byzantine period', Yoram Tsafrir and Shmuel Safrai (eds.), The History of Jerusalem. The Roman and Byzantine Period 70-638 CE (Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 1999), pp. 391-415 (Hebrew)

'Religionsgespräche Chr.-Jud.," Theologische Realencyclopädie (TRE) (Berlin - New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997), Vol. XXVIII, pp. 649-654

The Epistle of Samuel of Morocco. A Best-Seller in the World of Polemics', Ora Limor and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds.), Contra Iudaeos: Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997), pp. 177-194

A Rejected People. Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe', Nicholas de Lange (ed.), The Illustrated History of the Jewish People (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1997), pp. 87-139

Christian Sacred Space and the Jew', Jeremy Cohen (ed.), From Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian Thought, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien, 11 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996), pp. 55-77

Polemic Literature', The Shorter Jewish Encyclopaedia in Russian (Jerusalem, 1992), Vol. 6, pp. 586-591

King David's Tomb on Mt. Zion: The Origins of a Tradition', David Jacoby and Yoram Tsafrir (eds.), Jews, Samaritans and Christians in Byzantine Palestine (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 1988), pp. 11-23 ( Hebrew)

Articles in Refereed Journals

, 'Charlemagne and the Holy Land', Cathedra, 158 (2015), pp. 51-78 (Hebrew)

'Judas Ischariot - der Kunder verborgener Wahrheit', (with Israel Jacob Yuval), MünchnerBeiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, 5 (2011), pp. 24-24

Polemical Varieties: Religious Disputations in 13th Century Spain', Iberia Judaica, 2 (2010), pp. 55-79

'Mary and the Jews: Story, Controversy, and Testimony', Historein, 6 (2006), pp. 55-71

'Pelagia's Tomb on the Mount of Olives: Sin, Repentance, Salvation', Cathedra, 118 (2006), pp. 13-40 (Hebrew)

'Oedipus in Christian Garb: The Legend of Judas Iscarioth', Zmanim, 91 (2005), pp. 12-21 (with Israel J. Yuval, Hebrew)

'Charlemagne's Holy Land, Zmanim, 89 (2005), pp. 78-83 (Hebrew)

'Mary and the Jews: Three Witness Stories', Alpayim-A Multidisciplinary Publication for Contemporary Thought and Literature, 28 (2005), pp. 129-151 (Hebrew)

'Pilgrims and Authors: Adomnán's De locis sanctis and Hugeburc's Hodoeporicon Sancti Willibaldi', Revue Bénédictine, 114 (2004), pp. 253-275

'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)

'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)

'The Place of the End of Days: Eschatological Geography in Jerusalem', Journal of Jewish Art (The Real and the Ide Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art), 23 (1997/8), pp. 13-24

Christian Tradition-Jewish Authority', Cathedra, 80 (1996), pp. 31-62 (Hebrew)

'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

'Missionary Merchants: Three Medieval Anti-Jewish Works from Genoa', The Journal of Medieval History, 17 (1991), pp. 35-51

Religious Disputations in Mediterranean Ports, Pe'amim, Studies in Oriental Jewry, 45 (1990), pp. 32-44 (Hebrew)

The Origins of a Tradition: King David's Tomb on Mt. Zion, Traditio, 44 (1988), pp. 453-462

'An Urgent Call for Aid to Jerusalem (September 1987)', Cathedra, 46 (1987), pp. 3-7 (Hebrew)

Egeria on Mount Nebo, Cathedra, 27 (1983), pp. 49-68 (Hebrew)

Open University Publications (in Hebrew)

1. Jews and Christians in Western Europe. Encounter between Cultures in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

1993-1997, 5 volumes

Authored:

Unit 1: Jacob and Esau, 1993 (151 pp.); 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)

5. Reading Conversion

An online graduate course, Edex University Platform (With Prof. Haim Hames and Dr. Sarina Chen), Issued by the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-religious Encounters, 2018

Papers in Conference Proceedings

"Loca Desiderata: Sacred Space and Holy Land Pilgrimage in Christian Culture", CISMOR Series of Online Lectures, 11 (2021-2022), pp. 1-24

"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)

Book Reviews

The Florence Scroll: A 14th Century Pictorial Pilgrimage from Egypt to the Land of Israel, by Rachel Sarfati, Zion, 87 (2022)

Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem, by Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Europe, 36 (2018)

Reorienting the East, by Martin Jacobs, Cathedra, 164 (2017)

Conversion and Narrative, by Ryan Szpiech, Studies in Jewish- Christian Relations, 11 (2016)

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)

Tradition and Transformation: Knowledge Transmission among European Jews in the Middle Ages, by Micha Perry, Zion, 77 (2012)

Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogue Against the Jews, translated by Irven M. Resnick, Pe'amim, 124 (2011)

Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th-13th Centuries, translated and edited by Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate, Series: Crusade Texts in Translation 18, The Medieval Review online, May 2011

Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West, by Yitzhak Hen, Historia, 24 (2010), pp. 61-64

Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Great Screen, by Jeremy Cohen, Zmanim, 109 (2010), pp. 112-115

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

Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by Lee I. Levine, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 94 (2004), pp. 400-402

Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect: Agnes and Huguette the Waldensians, by Shulamith Shahar, Historia, 9 (2002), pp. 139-144

Gentile Tales. The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews, by Miri Rubin, Zion, 66 (2001), pp. 396-404

The Jewish-Christian Controversy. From the Earliest Times to 1789, by Samuel Krauss and William Horbury, Tarbiz, 69 (2000), pp. 151-155

Communities of Violence: Perception of Minorities in the Middle Ages, by David Nirenberg, Zion, 63 (1999), pp. 476-482.

Devils, Women, and Jews: Reflections of the Other in Medieval Sermon Stories, by Joan Young Gregg, The Medieval Review, 1999

Biblical Prophets in Byzantine Palestine, by David Satran, Cathedra, 87 (1998), pp. 169-174

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

Religions-gespräche im Mittelalter, edited by Bernard Lewis and Friedrich Niewoehner, Deutsches Archiv, 50 (1994), pp. 401-402

Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response, by Robert Chazan, Deutsches Archiv, 46 (1990), pp. 257-258

The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti Judaism, by Jeremy Cohen, Zion, 51 (1987), pp. 113-118.

Selected Papers at International Scientific Conferences

'Willibald in Jerusalem: From Travel to Text' (keynote paper), Willibald in Jerusalem (Dormition Abbey, November 2024)

'On Friendship', Medieval Matters: A Symposium in Honour of Professor Miri Rubin (London, Queen Mary, June 2023)

'Soil, Water, and Oil: On the Worship of Natural Elements of the Holy Land', The Discourses and Materialities of Tourism (Ramt-Gan, Bar-Ilan, University, February 2020)

'Extra-Canonical Holy Places and their Fate', Extra Canonical Traditions and the Holy Land: Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine (Regensburg, July 2019)

'Christian and Jewish Pilgrimage', Jerusalem in Roman-Byzantine Times (Bern, September 2017)

'Holy Places as Polemical Arguments', Jewish-Christian Encounters from Late Antiquity to the Modernity (Vienna, November 2017 )

Pilgrim Libraries: Books and Reading on the Medieval Routes to Jerusalem and Rome: A Workshop (London, Birkbeck College, December 2016)

The Jerusalem Experience in the Post-Crusader Period: Moslems, Christians and Jews', International Conference: Jerusalem and the Crusades (Jerusalem, December 2014)

Willibald in the Holy Places', Minerva International Conference: East and West in the Early Middle Ages (Berlin, December 2014)

'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)

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)

'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)

'Mary and the Holy Land: The Memories of Pilgrims', Conference of the International Society of Cultural History (Oslo, August 2011)

'Mary in Jerusalem: An Imaginary Map', International Conference: Visual Constructs of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, November 2010).

'Judas Iscariot, Revealer of a Secret Truth' (with Israel J. Yuval), Sepher Toledoth Yeshu Workshop, (Princeton, November 2009)

Ways of Writing: Travel Narratives in Early Christianity', International Congress: Holy Cities and Pilgrimage: Jerusalem-Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2008)

'Conversion of Space', Religion and the State (Cambridge, UK, 2006)

'Mary in Jerusalem', International Congress: In the Wake of Pilgrims to the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 2005)

'Eastern Sights in Western Eyes: The Sacred Map of Mary', CISH International Congress (Sidney, Australia, 2005)

'Mary and the Jews: Three Witness Stories', Religions in Conflict (Volos, Greece, 2004)

'Sharing Sacred Space: Christians, Jews and Moslems in Jerusalem', Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Exeter, England, 2003)

'Reversed Mirror: Jewish Rituals in Christian Eyes', Jews and Judaism Through the Eyes of 'Others' (Jerusalem, 2001)

Millennial Pursuits: Expectations of the End in the Middle Ages (Jerusalem, 2001), organizer and commentator

'Christianity versus Judaism in the Eyes of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen', Hebraica Veritas? (Philadelphia, 2000)

'Jews Read the Gospels', New Narratives of Jewish-Christian Co-emergence (Chicago, 2000)

'Rereading the Holy Land', Technologies of Conversion: Transformations of Belief and Practice in Pre-Modern Europe (Princeton, 2000)

'The Formation of the Sacred Map', Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1999)

Polemics and Conversion: The Impact of Polemical Literature', International Medieval Congress (Leeds, 1997)

'Sites of Discourse: The Scenery of Religious Disputations', The Public Sphere (Jerusalem, 1997)

Juden und Christen zur Zeit der Kreuzzuge (Reichenau, 1996), commentator

'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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Grants

2021

The Israel Science Foundation (Grant for publishing the book Jerusalem Travels)

2021

The Open University Research Authority (Grant for publishing the book Jerusalem Travels)

2014

The Open University Research Authority (Grant for a research on the Traditions of the Mount of Olives)

2013-2020

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

Awards

2000 - Ben-Zvi prize for the best research on Eretz Israel for the book: Holy Land Travels: Christian Pilgrims in Late Antiquity

2013-2020	Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (Israeli Center of Research Excellence [I-Core])
1994	editor (with Dr. Israel I. Yuval, The Hebrew University) of Sepher Ha-Nizzahon, an anti-Christian polemic work by Yom-Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, ca. 1410 (A German-Israeli cooperation with Prof. Alfred Haverkamp (The University of Trier) and Prof. Alexander Patschovsky (The University of Konstanz), sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
1988-1998	Coordinator of the Adversus Iudaeos project, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (publications of Christian anti-Jewish polemical texts)