Publications
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Reconfiguring the Land of Israel
(2024)
This book is about ways in which the land of Israel, the homeland of the most paradigmatic of all diasporas, was envisioned in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the literature of the sages. It is about the Land ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices
(2022)
The discoveries of Coptic books containing “Gnostic” scriptures in Upper Egypt in 1945 and of the Dead Sea Scrolls near Khirbet Qumran in 1946 are commonly reckoned as the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth ...
Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers
(2016)
Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations. Readership: All ...
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context
(2022)
This volume offers a new perspective on the Horn of Africa’s Christian past and reclaims its place on the map of global Christianity.
Volk oder Religion?
(2016)
Mit der Durchsetzung der Nationalstaatsidee seit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert geriet die traditionelle jüdische Gemeinschaft in Europa in eine Krise. Die jüdische Gemeindeautonomie wurde sukzessive abgeschafft, die Juden ...