Education
BA in General History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
MA in Religious Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
DPhil in Theology, University of Oxford Publications
Books
- Purity, Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
- Associate Editor (with Guy G. Stroumsa and Adam Silverstein), The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
- Editor (with Serge Ruzer and Daniel Stökl Ben-Ezra), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion: Studies in Discourse with the Work of Guy G. Stroumsa (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018).
Journal articles and book chapters
- “The Ambivalence of Purification and the Challenge of Transformation in the Rites of Passage and in Early Christian Texts”, Journal of Classical Sociology 18:4 (2018), 338-348.
- “Demons and Pollution: Greek, Jewish and Christian Models”, Katharos: Proceedings of the 14th conference of the Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, Kernos Supplements 32, edited by Jan Mathieu Carbon and Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge (Paris: Boccard, 2018).
- “On the Paradigmatic Status of Biblical Figures in Some Late Ancient Christian Exegetes”, in Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion: Studies in Discourse with the Work of Guy G. Stroumsa, edited by Moshe Blidstein, Serge Ruzer and Daniel Stökl Ben-Ezra (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2018).
- “Loosing Vows and Oaths in the Roman Empire and Beyond: Authority and Interpretation”, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 18 (2018), 275-304.
- “Swearing by the Book: Oaths and the Rise of Scripture in the Roman Empire”, Asdiwal: Revue genevoise d’anthropologie et d’histoire des religions 12 (2018), 53-72.
- “Between Ritual and Moral Purity: Early Christian Views on Dietary Laws”, in Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches, edited by Dan Batovici and Kristin De Troyer. Biblical Interpretation Series 151. (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 243-59.
- “Purity and Defilement”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions, edited by Guy G. Stroumsa, Adam Silverstein and Moshe Blidstein. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 448-65
- “How Many Pigs were on Noah’s Ark? An Exegetical Encounter on the Nature of Impurity”, Harvard Theological Review 108:3 (2015), 448-70
- “Entering a Sanctuary the Wrong Way”, Scripta Classica Israelica 34 (2015), 165-79.
- “Purity Opposed: Christian Identity Formation in Third Century Polemics against Death Defilement”, Studia Patristica 63 (2013), 373-84.
- MA Thesis: Vegetable Offerings in the Roman Empire (in Hebrew; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006).
