Publications

Books

  1. Eusebius of Caesarea Against Paganism (Leiden, 2000).

  2. The Nuşayrī-‛Alawī Religion: An Enquiry into Its Theology and Liturgy (Leiden, 2002) (with M. Bar-Asher).

  3. The Monastic School of Gaza (with B. Bitton-Ashkelony) (Leiden, 2006).

  4. Syriac Idiosyncrasies: Theology and Hermeneutics in Early Syriac Literature (with S. Ruzer) (Leiden, 2010).

  5. Kitab al-Ma'arif by Abu Sa'id Maymun b. Qasim al-Tabarani (with M. Bar-Asher) (Louvain, 2012).

  6. Reshaping Identities in Late Antique Syria-Mesopotamia: Christian and Jewish Hermeneutics and Narrative Strategies (with S, Ruzer) (Piscataway, 2016).

  7. Early Christian Beliefs: Challenges, Transformations, Polemics (with S. Ruzer) (Tel Aviv, 2018) (Hebrew).

Edited Books

  1. A. Kofsky & G.G. Stroumsa (eds.), Sharing the Sacred: Religious Contacts and Conflicts in the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1998).

  2. B. Bitton-Ashkelony & A. Kofsky (eds.), Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity (Leiden, 2004).

  3. A. Kofsky (ed.): G. Vallée, The Shaping of Christianity: The History and Literature of Its Formative Centuries [100-800] (Raanana, 2006) (Hebrew edition).

  4. A. Kofsky & S. Ruzer (eds.): D. Flusser, Jesus (Jerusalem, 2009) (Hebrew edition).

  5. B. Bitton-Ashkelony, O. Irshai, A. Kofsky, H. Newman, L. Perrone (eds.), Origeniana Duodecima. Origen's Legacy in the Holy Land – A Tale of Three Cities: Jerusalem, Caesarea and Bethlehem (Leuven, 2019).

Articles

  1. “Eusebius of Caesarea and his Polemic against the Jews in View of his Anti-Pagan Polemic,” Proceedings of the 11th World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem 1993), section b. v. 1, Jerusalem 1995, pp. 75-82 (Hebrew).

  2. “Christianity”, The Hebrew Encyclopedia, Supplement Volume 3 (Tel-Aviv, 1995), cols. 674-680 (Hebrew).

  3. “A Tenth Century Nusayri Treatise on the Duty to know the Mystery of Divinity” (with Meir Bar-Asher), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 58 (1995), 243-250.

  4. “An Early Nusayri Theological Dialogue on the Relation between the Ma‘na and the Ism” (with Meir Bar-Asher), Le Muséon 108 (1995), pp. 169-180.

  5. “Eusebius of Caesarea and the Christian-Jewish Polemic,” in O. Limor & G.G. Stroumsa (eds.), Contra Iudaeos: Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews (Tübingen, 1996), pp. 59-83.

  6. “The Nusayri Doctrine of Ali’s Divinity and the Nusayri Trinity according to an Unpublished
    Treatise from the 7th/13th Century” (with Meir Bar-Asher), Der Islam 72/2 (1995), pp. 258-292.

  7. “L’ascension célesete du gnostique Nusayrite et le voyage nocturne du prophète Muhammad” (with Meir Bar-Asher), in M.A. Amir-Moezzi (ed.), Ascensions célestes et itinéraires spirituels (Louvain-Paris, 1996), pp. 133-148.

  8. “Mamre: a Case of a Regional Cult?,” in A. Kofsky & G.G. Stroumsa (eds.), Sharing the Sacred: Religious Contacts and Conflicts in the Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1998), pp. 19-30.

  9. “Peter the Iberian: Pilgrimage, Monasticism and Ecclesiastical Politics in Byzantine Palestine,” Liber Annuus 47 (1997), pp. 209-222.

  10. “Prophecy in the Service of Polemics in Eusebius of Caesarea,” Cristianesimo nella storia 19 (1998), pp. 1-29.

  11. “The Theology of Kitab al-Usus: an Early Pseudepigraphic Nusayri Work” (with Meir Bar-Asher), Rivista degli Studi Orientali 71 (1997), pp. 55-81.

  12. “Peter the Iberian and the Question of the Holy Places,” Cathedra 91 (1999), pp. 79-96 (Hebrew).

  13. “Aspects of Sin in the Monastic School of Gaza,” in J. Assman & G.G. Stroumsa (eds.), Transformation of the Inner Self in Ancient Religions (Leiden, 1999), pp. 421-437.

  14. “A Druze-Nusayri Debate in the ‘Epistles of Wisdom,’” Quaderni di studi Arabi 17 (1999), pp. 95-103 (with Meir Bar-Asher).

  15. “The Study of Origen and the Alexandrian Tradition in Israel,” Adamantius 6 (2000), pp. 109-111.

  16. “The Monasticism of Gaza in the Byzantine Period,” Cathedra 96 (2000), pp. 69-110 (Hebrew) (with B. Bitton-Ashkelony).

  17. “Gazan Monasticism in the Fourth-Sixth Centuries: From Anchoritic to Cenobitic,” Proche-Orient Chrétien 50 (2000), pp. 14-62 (with B. Bitton-Ashkelony).

  18. “Justice, Free Will, and Divine Mercy in Ephrem’s Commentary on Genesis 2-3,” Le Muséon 113 (2000), pp. 315-332 (with S. Ruzer).

  19. "Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea: His Life and Work," in R. Pritz (ed.), Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea: History of the Church, Hebrew trans., R. Frank (Jerusalem, 2001), pp. ix-xxx.

  20. “The Byzantine Holy Person: The Case of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza,” in M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz (eds.), Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity (Leiden, 2004).

  21. "What Happened to the Monophysite Monasticism of Gaza?" in B. Bitton- Ashkelony & A. Kofsky (eds.), Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity (Leiden, 2004), pp. 183-194.

  22. "Dogma and Ritual in Kitab al-Maarif by the Nusayri Theologian al-Tabarani (d. 426/1034-35)," Arabica 52 (2005), pp. 43-65 (with M. Bar-Asher).

  23. "Christology and Hermeneutics in Philoxenus’ Commentary on John 1:14," Orientalia Christiana Periodica 71 (2005), pp. 343-362 (with S. Ruzer).

  24. "Monasticism in the Holy Land," in O. Limor and G. Stroumsa (eds.), Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land, From the Origins to the Latin Kingdoms (Brepols, Turnhout, 2006), pp. 257-291 (with B. Bitton-Ashkelony).

  25. "Pamphilus and the Christian Library of Caesarea," Cathedra 122 (2006), pp. 53-62 (Hebrew).

  26. "Renunciation of Will in the Monastic School of Gaza," Liber Annuus 56 (2006), pp. 321-346.

  27. "Syriac Inscriptions in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher," Aram 19 (2007), pp. 415-438 (with S. Brock and H. Goldfus).

  28. "Observations on Christian-Jewish Coexistence in Late Antique Palestine 5th - 7th Centuries)," Annali di storia dell' esegesi 23 (2007), pp. 433-446.

  29. "Logos, Holy Spirit and Messiah: Aspects of Aphrahat's Theology Reconsidered," Orientalia Christiana Periodica 73 (2007), pp. 347-378 (with S. Ruzer).

  30. "Severus of Antioch and Christological Politics in the Early Sixth Century," Proche-Orient Chrétien (2007), pp. 43-57.

  31. "The Garden of Ascetic Delight: Hermeneutic Strategies in Liber Graduum," Symbol 55 (2009), pp. 71-93 (with S. Ruzer, in Russian).

  32. "The Garden of Ascetic Delight: Hermeneutic Strategies in Liber Graduum," Rivista di storia del cristianesimo 8 (2011), pp. 111-124.

  33. Introduction to the Hebrew edition of D. Flusser, Jesus (Jerusalem, 2009), pp. 17-27 (with S. Ruzer).

  34. "The Invention of Stephen's Tomb," in Y. Hen and I. Shagrir (eds.), Ut videant et contingant: Essays on Pilgrimage and Sacred Space in Honour of Ora Limor (Raanana, 2011), pp. 29-48 (with A. Spitzer, in Hebrew).

  35. "Zechariah of Caphar Zechariah in the Crux of Theology and Hermeneutics." Proche-Orient Chrétien 61 (2011), pp. 34-44.

  36. "The Miaphysite Monasticism of Gaza and Julian of Halicarnassus." Orientalia Christiana Periodica 78 (2012), pp. 81-96.

  37. "Early Christian Belief," Zmanim 120 (2013), pp. 90-101.

  38. "Theology and Hermeneutics among Greek and Syriac Christianity, and Contemporaneous Judaism (4th-5th centuries): Paradigms of Interactions," Orientalia Christiana Analecta 293 (2013), pp. 75-90.

  39. "Anthropology and Soteriology in Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Commentary on John, Annali di storia dell' esegesi 30 (2013), pp. 63-78 (with S. Ruzer).

  40. "Kitab al-dala'il fi ma`rifat al-masa'il of Abu Sa`id Maymun b. Qasim al-Tabarani: Some Historical and Doctrinal Aspects," Rivista degli Studi Orientali 86 (2013), pp. 9-23 (With Meir Bar-Asher).

  41. "Theodore of Mopsuestia on Progressive Revelation and Human Development in Christ," Revue Biblique 120 (2013), pp. 570-595 (With S. Ruzer).

  42. "Julianism after Julian of Halicarnassus," in B. Bitton-Ashkelony and L. Perrone (eds.), Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity (Turnhout, 2013), pp. 251-294.

  43. "Reading the Ascetic Ideal into Genesis 1-3: Hermeneutic Strategies in the Book of Steps 21," in K. S. Heal and R. A. Kitchen (eds.), Breaking the Mind: New Studies in the Syriac "Book of Steps" (Washington D.C. 2014), pp. 273-296 (with S. Ruzer).

  44. "Shaping Christology in Hermeneutical Context: Theodore of Mopsuestia's Endeavor in Face of Contemporaneous Challenges," Adamantius 19 (2013), pp. 256-275 (With S. Ruzer).

  45. "The Palestinian Monastic Matrix of Orthodox and Radical Miaphysitism," in G. C. Bottini, L. D. Chrupcala, J. Patrich (eds.), Knowledge and Wisdom: Archaeological and Historical Essays in Honour of Leah Di Segni (Milan, 2014), pp. 333-342.

  46. "Theodore of Mopsuestia's Hermeneutics: Transformed Theology in Response to Fourth Century Crises," Vox Patrum 34 (2014), pp. 221-238 (with S. Ruzer).

  47. "Hermeneutics of Progressive Development in Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Commentary on John in Syriac," Parole de l'orient 40 (2015), pp. 275-286 (With S. Ruzer).

  48. "Theodore of Mopsuestia on Jews and Judaism: Mitigated Supersessionism in Christological and Hermeneutical Context," Revue des études juives 174 (2015), pp. 279-294 (with S. Ruzer).

  49. "Syriac Christian, Greek Christian and Contemporaneous Jewish Hermeneutics (4th-5th centuries): Paradigms of Interaction," Cyrillo-Methodian Studies 25 (2016), pp. 355-369.

  50. "The Gospel According to Tolstoy: Between Nineteenth-Century Lives of Jesus, Tatian and Marcion, in M. Blidstein, S. Ruzer and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (eds.), Scripture, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Conversion: Studies in Discourse with the Work of Guy G. Stroumsa (Tübingen, 2018), pp. 229-250 (with S. Ruzer).

  51. "Ephrem's Hymns on the Pearl," in B. Belinitzky, Y. Rotman (eds.), The Cave of Treasures: Syriac Anthology from Late Antiquity in Hebrew Translation (Tel Aviv, 2018), pp. 171-188.

  52. "Theodore of Mopsuestia: Rationalizing Hermeneutics and Theology," in Y. Friedman, C. Markschies (eds.), Rationalization in Religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Berlin, 2019), pp. 74-102 (with S. Ruzer).

  53. "Pilgrimage, Appropriation of the Holy Places and Jewish Past in Early Fifth Century Christian Discourse," in O. Peleg-Barkat, J. Ashkenazi, U. Leibner, M. Aviam and R. Talgam (eds.), Between Sea and Desert: "On Kings, Nomads, Cities and Monks: Essays in Honor of Joseph Patrich" (Jerusalem, 2019), pp. 225-234 (With S. Ruzer).

Forthcoming

  1. "Palestinian Monasticism in Late Antiquity," (With B. Bitton- Ashkelony, Hebrew).

Book Reviews

  1. O. Limor, Holy Land Travels: Christian Pilgrims in Late Antiquity (Jerusalem, 1998, Hebrew), Zmanim 67 (1999), pp. 92-94 (Hebrew).

  2. M.J. Hollerich, Eusebius of Caesarea’s Commentary on Isaiah, Christian Exegesis in the Age of Constantine (Oxford, 1999), Adamantius 6 (2000), pp. 365-370.

  3. A. S. Jacobs, The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity (Stanford, 2004), Histoire sociale / Social History 37 (2005), pp. 521-523.

  4. A. S. Jacobs, The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity (Stanford, 2004), Adamantius 12 (2006), pp. 493-495.

  5. B. Bleckmann, H. Schneider, Eusebius von Caesarea, De Vita Constantini – Über das Leben Konstantins (Turnhout, 2007), Journal of Late Antiquity 2 (2009), pp. 178-180.

  6. B. Bleckmann, H. Schneider, Eusebius von Caesarea, De Vita Constantini – Über das Leben Konstantins (Turnhout, 2007), Adamantius 15 (2009), pp. 557-560.

  7. R. M. Parinello, Communità monastiche a Gaza, da Isaia a Doroteo (secoli IV-VI), Temi e testi 73, "Studi di storia del christianesimo", serie diretta da Giovanni Filoramo, Edizioni di storia e letteratura (Roma 2010), Adamantius 17 (2011), pp. 472-474.

  8. G. Procházka, S. Procházka, The Plain of Saints and Prophets: The Nusayri-Alawi Community of Cilicia (Southren Turkey) and its Sacred Places (Wiesbaden, 2010), Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 107 (2012), pp. 302-304.

  9. Y. Friedman, The NuÒayrÐ-ÝAlawÐs : An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria (Leiden 2009), Bustan: The Middle East Book Review 3 (2012), pp. 170-175.

  10. Sabrina Inowlocki, Claudio Zamagni (eds.), Reconsidering Eusebius: Collected Papers on Literary, Historical, and Theological Issues. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 107 (Leiden, 2011), Adamantius 19 (2013), pp. 620-621.

  11. Michael W. Champion, Explaining the Cosmos: Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza. Oxford-New York, Oxford University Press, 2014, Journal of Early Christian Studies 23 (2015), pp. 325-326.

  12. Jonathan L. Zecher, The Role of Death in the Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Greek Ascetic Tradition. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2015, Journal of Theological Studies 67 (2016), pp. 339-341.

  13. Kyle A. Schenkewitz, Dorotheos of Gaza and the Discourse of Healing in Gazan Monasticism, American University Studies, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2015, Journal of Theological Studies 68 (2017), pp. 382-384.

  14. Hazel Johannessen, The Demonic in the Political Thought of Eusebius of Caesarea. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, Plekos 20 (2018), pp. 477-480.

  15. James Corke-Webster, Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019, Journal of Late Antiquity (forthcoming).