OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Jewish Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
God’s Body: The Anthropomorphic God in the Old Testament; Performing Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible; The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans; Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel: A Study of Biblical Hebrew	1
A Roman army veteran in the Sepphoris necropolis	1
A Pious Belligerence: Dialogical Warfare and the Rhetoric of Righteousness in the Crusading Near EastShacharUri ZviA Pious Belligerence: Dialogical Warfare and the Rhetoric of Righteousness in the Cru	1
Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and RighteousnessGrayAlyssa M.Charity in Rabbinic Judaism: Atonement, Rewards, and RighteousnessRoutledgeLondon, 2019, 224, £96.00ISBN 978-1-13859-996-	1
Arendt and Deutscher on heresy and identity	1
How many verbal patterns are there in Hebrew? From Sibawayh to Judah Ḥayyūj and Abraham ibn Ezra	0
Sacred and non-sacred: divine names in early rabbinic traditions	0
Brothers from Afar: Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval EuropeKanarfogelEphraimBrothers from Afar: Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval EuropeWayne State Uni	0
‘From my flesh I behold God.’ Circumcision and deconstruction: traces of Jacques Derrida	0
The Wertheimer saga and escape (1870–1940)	0
In Memoriam Fergus Millar	0
Index	0
One journal, one decade, 3,797,592 words: computational analysis of HaTzfira’s discourse (1874–1883)	0
Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish AntiquityHicks-KeetonJillArguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish AntiquityOxford University PressNew	0
A forgotten variety of religious Zionism: the thought of Shmuel Alexandrov	0
The exegetical function of the Qurʾān in the Christian-Arabic Pentateuch	0
John Riches, The Bible: A Very Short Introduction	0
Giovanni Battista Iona's Hebrew translation of the four Gospels	0
The study of Hebrew synonyms in the early Haskalah period	0
The reception of Bialik and his work in North Africa	0
Reuven Kiperwasser and Geoffrey Herman (eds), Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism	0
Gershom Scholem’s ‘laments project’ and the question of gender	0
Mystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age SpiritualityHussBoazMystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age SpiritualityOxford University Pr	0
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ and the earliest commentaries on the Ṣefer Yeẓīra	0
Rhiannon Graybill and Lynn R. Huber (eds), The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality: Critical Readings	0

A Dead Sea Scrolls fragment with the name of Aristobulus	0
Amy Williams and Bill Niven, National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport: Exhibitions, Memorials, and Commemorations	0
Jacob as ‘the prophet’ in Nahmanides’ commentary	0
Job’s Body and the Dramatised Comedy of MoralisingSouthwoodKatherine E.Job’s Body and the Dramatised Comedy of MoralisingRoutledgeLondon and New York, 2021, xi, 190, £120.00ISBN 978-0-36746-257-4	0
Interpreting and Living God’s Law at Qumran. Miqṣat Maʿaśe Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT). Introduction, Text, Translation and Interpretative EssaysKratzReinhard G.Interpreting and L	0
Martin Buber’s engagement with Hebrew as political activism	0
The anglicization of Baghdadi Jews in Singapore, 1832–1950	0
Reassessing exilarchal authority between Sasanian and early Islamic rule	0
Hiding complexes in fortified sites of the Bar Kokhba war	0
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its FaithsBartonJohnA History of the Bible: The Book and Its FaithsAllen LaneLondon, 2019, xvii, 613, £25.00ISBN 978-0-24100-391-6	0
The Temple Scroll: 11Q19, 11Q20, 11Q21, 4Q524, 5Q21 with 4Q356a and 4Q365 Frag.23SchiffmanLawrence H.GrossAndrew D.The Temple Scroll: 11Q19, 11Q20, 11Q21, 4Q524, 5Q21 with 4Q356a and 4Q365 Frag.23Bril	0
David M. Gitlitz, Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico	0
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary CultureKrakowskiEveComing of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary CulturePrinceton Universi	0
Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early ModernityGondosAndreaKabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early ModernityState University	0
Judeo-Syriac in late antiquity and the Middle Ages	0
Haym Soloveitchik, Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval Europe: Principles and Pressures	0
Holly Morse, Encountering Eve’s Afterlives: A New Reception Critical Approach to Genesis 2–4	0
The relationship between manuscripts A, B, D and the marginal readings of manuscript B of Ben Sira	0
A human sui generis: Philo’s Life of Moses	0
Queen Berenice: A Jewish Female Icon of the First Century CEIlanTalQueen Berenice: A Jewish Female Icon of the First Century CEBrillLeiden, 2022, ix, 218, €110.00ISBN 978-9-00451-103-3	0
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Chabad discourse on rationales for the commandments: Derekh mitsvotekha	0
The Oxford Handbook of the SeptuagintSalvesenAlison G.LawTimothy MichaelThe Oxford Handbook of the SeptuagintOxford University PressOxford, 2021, xvii, 791, £110.00ISBN 978-0-19966-571-6	0
A computational analysis of the special Talmudic tractates	0
Abraham Shalom and the converso question in the fifteenth century	0
A hidden nusach: the linguistic literacy of the Maharam Lublin	0
Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures: Studies in Honour of Daniel J. LaskerKrinisEhudBashirNabihOffenbergSaraSadikShalomPolemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewis	0
A Jewish tax with a Latin name: the aurum coronarium	0
Classical Ethiopic: A Grammar of Ge'ezTropperJosefHasselbach-AndeeRebeccaClassical Ethiopic: A Grammar of Ge'ezEisenbraunsUniversity Park PA, 2021, x, 430, $69.95ISBN 978-1-57506-841-1	0
Timothy H. Lim, The Earliest Commentary on the Prophecy of Habakkuk	0
Maskilic families in the Ottoman Empire	0
Edith Franke, Alisha Meininghaus and Susanne Rodemeier (eds), Jüdisches Leben in Marburg: Erinnern schafft Identität. Veröffentlichungen der religionskundlichen Sammlung Marburg	0
Heidegger and His Jewish ReceptionHerskowitzDaniel M.Heidegger and His Jewish ReceptionCambridge University PressCambridge, 2021, 356, £75.00ISBN 978-1-10884-046-0	0
Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe: A New Perspective on an Exegetical RevolutionCohenMordechai Z.Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Euro	0
Babatha's first marriage contract: hiding in plain sight	0
The date and provenance of the Aramaic Targum to Canticles	0
Aramaic: A History of the First World LanguageGzellaHolgerAramaic: A History of the First World LanguageWilliam B. EerdmansGrand Rapids MI, 2021, xii, 359, $70.00ISBN 978-0-80287-748-2	0
Jewish Treasures from Oxford LibrariesAbramsRebeccaMerchán-HamannCésarJewish Treasures from Oxford LibrariesBodleian Library PublishingOxford, 2020, xii, 308, £35.00ISBN 978-1-85124-502-4	0
Continuity and innovation in architectural depictions of the Jerusalem Temple	0
You can’t go home again: the Bavli’s story of Honi’s big sleep as inversion of the Yerushalmi’s account	0
Danish-Jewish dilemmas of belonging	0
R. El̔azar son of R. Šim̔on the thief catcher ( bB. Metz. 83a–84a)	0
NOTE: A newly discovered and identified bilingual Targum manuscript	0
Benjamin Schliesser, Jan Rüggemeier, Thomas J. Kraus and Jörg Frey (eds), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World	0
The ʾāšām bûr (אשׁם בור): early-medieval Karaites, Leviticus 5:18b and the Masoretic text	0
The motivations behind E.H. Lindo’s The History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal	0
‘Slay them Not’: Twelfth-Century Christian–Jewish Relations and the Glossed PsalmsStoneLinda M.A.‘Slay them Not’: Twelfth-Century Christian–Jewish Relations and the Glossed PsalmsBrillLeiden, 2019, xi	0
Stephen Livesey Ashworth: jjs copy-editor & typesetter 1986–2023	0
Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 1RubensteinJeffrey L. Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 1Brown Judaic StudiesProvidence RI, 2021, xxvi, 417, $29.00ISBN 978-1-95149-879-5	0
Moroccan Jewish shoemaking under European colonialism (1912-39)	0

Menachem Butler and Jonathon Grossman (eds), Avraham Grossman on the Cultural Dynamic of Medieval Jewish History and Thought	0
Neither insiders nor outsiders: the German National Library and the Jews before 1933	0
The Bible and Jews in Medieval SpainRothNormanThe Bible and Jews in Medieval SpainRoutledgeAbingdon, 2021, xv, 468, £140.00ISBN 978-0-36789-841-0	0
The Bakhtinian chronotope in the destruction narrative in the Fathers of Rabbi Nathan B	0
Piet van Boxel, Kirsten Macfarlane and Joanna Weinberg (eds), The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe	0
Steven Kepnes (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology	0
God: An AnatomyStavrakopoulouFrancescaGod: An AnatomyPicadorLondon, 2021, xx, 583, £25.00ISBN 978-1-50986-733-2	0
Hebrew between Jews and ChristiansStein KokinDanielHebrew between Jews and ChristiansDe GruyterBerlin, 2023, vi, 358, €87.99ISBN 978-3-11033-863-8	0
Daniel J. Lasker, Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism	0
Love and fear of God in the thought of Isaac of Corbeil	0
The impact of the diaspora on family life in the Yishuv (1920–1948)	0
The Land is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the RenaissanceBernsAndre D.The Land is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the RenaissanceUniversity of Pennsylvania PressPhiladelphia	0
An Easter cycle in Hebrew from c . 725 ce	0
The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian ContextSecundaShaiThe Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstrual Impurity and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and i	0
History of the Jews in the Basque Country (thirteenth–nineteenth centuries)	0
Jews and Crime in Medieval EuropeShoham-SteinerEphraimJews and Crime in Medieval EuropeWayne State University PressDetroit IL, 2020, xi, 439, $44.99ISBN 978-0-81434-823-9	0
The trilingual Hebrew/Aramaic/Judeo-Greek glossary from MS Vat. ebr. 423	0
Michael E. Pregill, The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur’an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam	0
The Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and ChristianityAitkenJamesPatmoreHector M.Rosen-ZviIshayThe Evil Inclination in Early Judaism and ChristianityCambridge University PressCambridge, 2021, viii, 37	0
Joseph B. Yudin, The Protestant Settlers of Israel: Missionaries, Millenarians, and the African Hebrew Israelites	0
Edward Cook, Biblical Aramaic and Related Dialects: An Introduction	0
F.L. Cross, E. Livingstone and Andrew Louth (eds), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church	0
Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic LiteratureStrassfeldMaxTrans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic LiteratureUniversity of California PressOakland CA, 2022, ix, 248, $29.95ISBN 9	0
Henryk Drawnel (ed.), The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran: Proceedings of the International Online Conference Organized by the Center for the Study of Second T	0
The image of the non-Jew in the responsa of David Zvi Hoffmann	0
Kabbalah for beginners? Moses Cordovero’s early œuvre	0
Hadrian’s Judaean Adventus coins: a question of perspective	0
Lost and found manuscripts of Targum	0
Ariel Hessayon, Annette Yoshiko Reed and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds), Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries	0
Complete AramaicReymondEric D.Complete AramaicJohn Murray PressLondon, 2021, xviii, 326, £39.99ISBN 978-1-47362-776-5	0
Rabbinic–Muslim jurisprudence in medieval Andalusia	0
The Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents: Divisions and Exegetical Roles beyond Syntax; Basics of Hebrew AccentsParkSung JinThe Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents: Divisions and Exegetical Roles beyond SyntaxCa	0
Translation and Style in the Old Greek Psalter: What Pleases Israel’s GodJonesJennifer BrownTranslation and Style in the Old Greek Psalter: What Pleases Israel’s GodBrillLeiden, 2021, xi, 289, €124.00	0
A Pottage of Lentils: Mutual Perceptions of Christians and Jews in the Age of Reconciliation (in Hebrew)Ben JohananKarmaA Pottage of Lentils: Mutual Perceptions of Christians and Jews in the Age of Re	0
Vespasian’s raids in the Jaffa region reconsidered	0
Between Thought and Deed: Intention in Talmudic JurisprudenceStrauch SchickShanaBetween Thought and Deed: Intention in Talmudic JurisprudenceBrillLeiden, 2021, xii, 178, €112.00ISBN 978-9-00443-303-8	0
Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Two Commentaries on Megilat Esther. An Annotated Critical EditionMishalyAyalaZiporMoshe A.Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Two Commentaries on Megilat Esther. An Annotated Critical EditionBar-Ila	0
Aviv barley and calendar diversity among Jews in eleventh-century Palestine	0
A Moroccan Jew’s journey into Anglican Christianity	0
The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the HolocaustAnthonyElizabethThe Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the HolocaustWayne State University PressDetroit MI, 2021, 288, $36.99ISBN 978-	0
The letter of Isaac the Blind to Nahmanides and Jonah Gerondi in its historical context	0
The role of the colon in MS Erfurt of the Tosefta	0
Averting the gaze in Eliyahu de Vidas’ Reshit Hokhmah	0
Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, Volume 4: The Ptolemaic Period (323 BCE–30 BCE)HachamNoahIlanTalFikhmanItzhakCorpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, Volume 4: The Ptolemaic Period (323 BCE–30 BCE)De Gruyter / Magne	0
A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods. Second revised and expanded editionSokoloffMichaelA Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Per	0
The female authorship of Babylonian Jewish incantation bowls	0
Medieval scribal procedures for writing the Tetragrammaton	0
Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the ‘Guide of the Perplexed’; Maimonides’ ‘Guide of the Perplexed’ in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the TwentiethDe SouzaIgor H.Rewr	0
Jewish exegesis and a vernacular translation of the Hebrew Bible	0
The Matriarchs in Genesis RabbahWoolstenhulmeKatieThe Matriarchs in Genesis RabbahBloomsbury T&T ClarkLondon, 2022, 276, £95.00ISBN 978-0-56769-573-4	0
The Sabbatean syndrome, the messianic idea and Zionism	0
Amsalu Tefera and Loren T. Stuckenbruck (eds), Representations of Angelic Beings in Early Jewish and in Christian Traditions	0
The Damascus Document; The Community Rules from Qumran: A CommentaryFraadeSteven D.The Damascus DocumentOxford University PressOxford, 2021, xiv, 191, £65.00ISBN 978-0-19873-433-8HempelCharlotteThe Co	0
A Ptolemaic petition from a ‘Judeo-Egyptian’ (Ἰουδαιοαιγύπτιος)	0
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Rabbenu Tam. Interpretation, Halakhah, Controversy (in Hebrew)ReinerAvraham (Rami)Rabbenu Tam. Interpretation, Halakhah, Controversy (in Hebrew)Bar-Ilan University PressRamat Gan, 2021, 503, ₪130.00IS	0
Jews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First MillenniumButtsAaron MichaelGrossSimchaJews and Syriac Christians: Intersections across the First MillenniumMohr SiebeckTübingen, 2020, xii,	0
Abraham Abulafia's mysticism of divine flux	0
What did the Rabbis know about grammar? Exegesis and grammatical gender in late antiquity	0
Israel in Egypt: The Land of Israel as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval PeriodSalvesenAlisonPearceSarahFrenkelMiriamIsrael in Egypt: The Land of Israel as Concept and R	0
A lost homily on Gehenna and repentance in Midrash Tehillim	0
Calendar reform and Orthodox activity in the Second Vatican Council	0
The Jewish Eighteenth Century: A European Biography, 1700–1750FeinerShmuelThe Jewish Eighteenth Century: A European Biography, 1700–1750Indiana University PressBloomington IN, 2020, xiii, 541, $95.00I	0
Y. Tzvi Langermann, Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew	0
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The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900–1270CohenMordechai Z.The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense o	0
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Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner’s writings on religion in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s	0
Two Judeo-Spanish ‘Marrano’ hymns in the liturgy of the Jews of Cochin	0
A cross-homilies analysis of Tanhuma-Yelamdenu Aharei Mot	0
Jewish Biblical Exegesis from Islamic Lands: The Medieval PeriodPolliacMeiraBrenner-IdanAthalyaJewish Biblical Exegesis from Islamic Lands: The Medieval PeriodSBL PressAtlanta GA, 2019, xvii, 365, $49	0
David Zvi Hoffmann’s (1843–1921) commentary on the Pentateuch in the context of German-Jewish Orthodoxy’s struggle over the dogmatic principles of Torah	0
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Intercepting missionaries: Jacob Sapir and Beta Israel contacts with Ottoman Jerusalem	0