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Dr Raffaella Del Sarto

With Nathalie Tocci, "Italy's Politics without Policy: Balancing Atlanicism and Europeanism in the Middle East," Modern Italy 13/2 (2008): 135-53.
"Wording and Meaning(s): EU-Israeli Political Cooperation according to the ENP Action Plan," Mediterranean Politics, 11/1 (2007): 59-74.
"Il confine del consenso: La guerra dei Sei Giorni e la frammentazione della società e della politica israeliana," in A. Marzano and M. Simoni (eds.), Quarant'anni dopo: Confini, Barriere e Limiti in Israele-Palestina, 1967-2007, Bologna: Il Ponte, 2007.
Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
joint ed. with E. Adler, F. Bicchi, and B. Crawford): The Convergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
"Region-Building, EU Normative Power, and Contested Identities: The Case of Israel," in E. Adler, F. Bicchi, B. Crawford, and R. Del Sarto (eds.): The Convergence of Civilizations: Constructing a Mediterranean Region, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, pp. 296-333.
(joint ed. with C. Kantner and A. Liberatore): Security and Democracy in the European Union, Special issue of European Security 15/4 (2006).
"Security and Democracy: A Reprise,", European Security, special issue on 'Security and Democracy in the European Union,' (eds.) R. Del Sarto, C. Kantner, and A. Liberatore, 15(4): 507-518.
"Changes in EU-Israeli Relations?," Internationale Politik Transatlantic Edition, 7/1 (2006): 92-103.
Benchmarking Human Rights and Democratic Development in the Euro-Mediterranean Context: Conceptualising Ends, Means, and Strategies, lead author, with contributions of A. Driss, E. Lannon, and T. Schumacher, EuroMeSCo Annual Report, Lisbon: EuroMeSCo secretariat, 2006 (also at http://www.euromesco.net/images/04.pdf)
"Setting the (Cultural) Agenda: Concepts, Communities, and Representation in Euro-Mediterranean Relations," in Mediterranean Politics, 10/3 (2005): 313-330.
with T. Schumacher: "From EMP to ENP: What's at Stake with the European Neighbourhood Policy towards the Southern Mediterranean?," European Foreign Affairs Review 10/1 (2005): 17-38.

Dr Jordan Finkin

The Poetics of Schadenfreude: N. B. Minkov on the Edge of Yiddish Diction (forthcoming, The Jewish Quarterly Review)
Enantiodrama: Enantiosemia in Arabic and Beyond Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68 (2005)

Professor Martin Goodman

'Explaining change in Judaism in late antiquity', in A. Houtman, A. de Jong, and M. Misset-van de Weg (eds), Empsychoi Logoi-Innovations in Antiquity. Studies in honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 19-27.
Jews and Christians in the first centuries. Farmington Papers, Number WR4. Oxford: Farmington Institute for Christian Studies (2008)
'Rome and Jerusalem', Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society, 9:3 (January/February 2008), pp. 43-44.
'The meaning of FISCI IUDAICI CALUMNIA SUBLATA', in S. J. D. Cohen and J. Schwartz (eds), Studies in Josephus and the Varieties of Ancient Judaism Festschrift for Loius H. Feldman (E. J. Brill, 2007), pp. 81-89.
Judaism in the Roman World: Collected essays, Leiden: Brill 2007
Rome and Jerusalem: the clash of ancient civilizations, London: Penguin 2007
(ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002
(joint ed.) Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews and Christians, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999
(ed.), Jews in a Graeco-Roman World, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998
The Roman World 44BC-AD 180, London: Routledge 1997
Mission and Conversion, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994

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Mr Ron Nettler

'Ibn Arabi's Gloss on Yunus', in the Maghreb Review, Special Issue in Honour of Prof. Mohamed Talbi, October 2004.
'Mohamed Talbi on understanding the Qur'an', in modern muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an, ed.s, Taji-Farouki, OUP 2004
Sufi Metaphysics and Qur'anic Prophets: Ibn Arabi's Ideas and Methods in the Fusus al-Hikam, Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, 2003.
'Mohamed Talbi's commentary on Qur'an IV:34. A 'Historical reading' of a verse concerning the discipling of women', The Maghreb Review, vol. 24, nos. 1-2, 1999.
'Mohamed Talbi's Theory of Religious Pluralism. A Modernist Islamic Outlook', The Maghreb Review, vol. 24, nos. 3-4, 1999.
with J. Cooper and M. Mahmoud (eds.), Islam & Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond London: I.B. Taurus & Co. Ltd. 1998
with S. Taji-Farouki (eds.), Muslim-Jewish Encounters: Intellectual Traditions and Modern Politics (Studies in Muslim-Jewish Relations, 4), Harwood Academic Publishers 1998
'Ibn 'Arabi's Conception of God's Universal Mercy: The Chapter on Zakariyya' in the Fusus al-Hikam' in S. Jalal al-Din Ashtiani, H. Matsuhara, T. Iwami, and A. Matsumoto (eds.), Consciousness and Reality: Studies in memory of Toshihiko Izutsu, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoton Publishers 1998

Dr David Rechter

The Jews of Vienna and the First World War. London: Littman, 2001.
"Ethnicity and the Politics of Welfare - The Case of Habsburg Austrian Jewry." In Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, vol. 1 (2002), pp. 257-276.
"Western and Central European Jewry in the Modern Period, 1750-1933." In Martin Goodman, ed., Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 376-395.
(joint ed.) Towards Normality? Acculturation and Modern German Jewry. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.
"The Jews: A European Minority." In Stefan Berger, ed., A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe 1789-1914. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, pp. 274-287.
“Geography is Destiny: Region, Nation and Empire in Habsburg Jewish Bukovina.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 7/3 (2008): 325-37.
(joint ed.) Special Issue, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Jews and Modernity: Beyond the Nation. Vol. 7/3 (2008).

Dr Alison Salvesen

Commentary on Psalm 151 for Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible, ed. J.D.G. Dunn and J. Rogerson (Grand Rapids/Cambridge 2004) 862-4.
'Infants or Fools in Eden? An Ambiguity in Early Syriac Tradition' in Hamlet on a Hill. Semitic and Greek Studies presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, eds. M.F.J. Baasten and W.Th. van Peursen (Leuven 2003), 433-440.
'A Convergence of the Ways? The Judaizing of Christian Scripture by Origen and Jerome' in The Ways that Never Parted, eds. A. Yoshiko Reed and A. Becker, Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003).
'Early Jewish Bible Interpretation' in The Biblical World, ed. J. Barton (London/New York 2002) 323-332.
'Jacob of Edessa's knowledge of Hebrew' in Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Texts. Essays in Memory of Michael Weitzman, eds. A. Rapoport-Albert and G. Greenberg (Sheffield 2001) 457-67.
Commentary on Baruch and Epistle of Jeremiah in The Oxford Bible Commentary, eds. J. Barton and J. Muddiman and M.D. Goodman (Oxford 2001) 699-704.
'Symmachus and the dating of Palestinian Targum Tradition' Journal of the Aramaic Bible 2 (2000) 233-45.
Entry 'Origen' in Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, eds. L. Schiffman and G.J. Brooke (Oxford 2000) 624-25.
I-II Samuel in the Syriac Version of Jacob of Edessa, Monographs of the Peshitta Institute, Leiden, 10 (Leiden: Brill, 1999) (xlix + 170, 125 pp.).

Dr Joseph Sherman

Serving the Natives: Whiteness as the Price of Hospitality in South African Yiddish Literature”, Journal of Southern African Studies, 26:3 (September 2000), pp.505-21.
“Between Ideology and Indifference: The Destruction of Yiddish in South Africa,” in Shain, M. and Mendelsohn, R. (eds.) Memories, Realities and Dreams: Aspects of the South African Jewish Experience (Johannesburg and Cape Town: Jonathan Ball, 2002), pp.28-49.
‘Translating ‘Shotns baym hodson’ [Shadows on the Hudson]: Directly Encountering Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Authorial Dualism,’ in Denman, H. (ed.), Isaac Bashevis Singer: His Work and His World [IJS Studies in Judaica] (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2002), pp.49-80.
The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature (Oxford: Legenda, 2003).
“The Non-Reflecting Mirror: Gogol’s Influence on Sholem Aleichem”, Essays in Poetics 28 (Autumn 2003), pp.101-23.
Sherman, J. and Robertson, R. (eds.) The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction: Selected Papers arising from the 4th and 5th Mendel Friedman Conferences in Yiddish (Oxford: Legenda, 2005).
“Bergelson and Chekhov: Convergences and Departures”, in Sherman, J. and Robertson, R. (eds.) The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction: Selected Papers arising from the 4th and 5th Mendel Friedman Conferences in Yiddish (Oxford: Legenda, 2005), Studies in Yiddish 5, pp. 117-33.
Sherman, J. and Estraikh, G. David Bergelson (1884-1952): From Modernism to Socialist Realism (Oxford: Legenda, 2007).

Dr Adam Silverstein

Postal Systems in the pre-Modern Islamic World, Cambridge, 2007
'Haman's Transition from the Jahiliyya to Islam', JSAI 34 (2008)
'From Markets to Marvels: Jews on the Maritime Route to China ca. 850 - ca. 950 CE', Journal of Jewish Studies 58i, pp. 91-104
'The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic geography in its historical context' in K. Raaflaub and R. Talbert (eds.), Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Oxford: Blackwells, 2007
'Arabo-Islamic Geography' in D. Buisseret (ed.), The Oxford Companion to World Exploration, Oxford University Press, 2006
'The Book of Esther and the Enûma Elish', BSOAS 69ii (2006), pp. 209-223
Entries on “Post (Barîd)” and “Ibn Khurradâdhbih” in J. Meri (ed.), Medieval Islamic Civilization: an Encyclopaedia, Routledge, 2006
'A Neglected Chapter in the History of Caliphal State-Building', JSAI 30 (2005), pp. 293-317
(With Prof. J. Sadan) 'Ornate Manuals or Practical Adab? Some reflections on a unique work by an anonymous author of the 10th century CE', al-Qantara 25ii (2004), pp. 339-54
'On Some Aspects of the Abbasid Barîd', in J.E. Montgomery (ed.), Abbasid Studies, Leuven, 2004, pp. 23-32
'Documentary Evidence for the early Barîd' in P. Sijpesteijn and L. Sundelin (eds.), Papyrology and the History of Early Islamic Egypt, Leiden, 2004, pp. 153-61
'A New Source for the History of the Barîd', al-Abhâth 50-1 (2002-3), pp. 121-34
'Etymologies and Origins: A note of caution', British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 28i (2001), pp. 92-4

Dr Piet van Boxel

Cardinal Santoro and the expurgation of Hebrew literature, The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews, S Wendehorst ed, Leiden, 2004, pp. 19-34
‘Robert Bellarmine, Christian Hebraist and Censor’, History of Scholarship; a selection of papers from the seminar on the history of scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute, Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin ed. Oxford, 2006, pp. 251-275

Dr Joanna Weinberg

'Leon Modena and the Fiore di Virtù,' in Italia (Conference supplement Series 1),2003 pp.137-157.
'The Light of the Eyes of Azariah de' Rossi.' An English translation with introduction and notes. Yale Judaica series volume XXXI, Yale University Press, May 2001
'Invention and Convention: Jewish and Christian critique of the Jewish fixed calendar,' Jewish History, 14, 3, 2000, pp.317-330.