Publications

Forthcoming

Ilaria Briata, "Rabbinic Manners (Derekh Erets) and the Formation of Etiquette Literature in Medieval Europe." Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion 3 (2024) (accepted).

Ilaria Briata, "The Extreme Sacrifice of a Cannibal Mother in the Siege of Jerusalem." Henoch (2024) (accepted).

Ilaria Briata, "It is Hard to Teach Orally What Has Not Been Practiced Physically: Ethics, Etiquette and Education in Rabbinic and Monastic Literature." In Rabbinic Education in Context: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Transmission of Religious Knowledge and Praxis in Antiquity and Late Antiquity, edited by Elisabetta Abate (Leiden and Boston: Brill) (accepted).

Patrick B. Koch, "Musar." Routledge Resources Online—The Renaissance World (accepted).

Patrick B. Koch. “Middot and Sefirot: Tomer Devorah in the Context of Moshe Cordovero’s Oeuvre.” Jewish Thought: Journal of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought (under review).

2023

Ilaria Briata, "Las madres judías de la época bíblica di Semah Rabiner: modelli biblici di morale femminile." In Presenza/Assenza. L’identità ebraico-biblica femminile nelle letterature moderne di lingua spagnola e tedesca. Edited by Paola Bellomi and Arturo Larcati, 37–49 (Firenze: Giuntina, 2023). ("Las madres judías de la época bíblica by Semah Rabiner: Biblical Models of Feminine Morality") (click here).

Patrick B. Koch. “Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto.” Chapter 17 in Jewish Virtue Ethics, edited by Geoffrey Claussen, Alexander Green and Alan Mittleman, 227–239. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2023 (click here).

Patrick B. Koch. “All My Thinking Has But One Focus’: Contemplative Seclusion in (Early) Modern Jewish Spirituality.” Entangled Religions 14, no. 4 (2023) (click here).

Elly Moseson. "Kol Nidrei in Nikolsburg, 1775: An Early Account of a Hasidic Sermon." Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 20, no. 1 (2023): 147–171 (click here).

2022

Ilaria Briata, "Demons and Scatology: Cursed Toilets and Haunted Baths in Late Antique Judaism.” In Demons in Early Judaism and Christianity, edited by Hector M. Patmore and Josef Lössl, 256–272. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022 (click here).

Patrick B. Koch. "'There is Neither Food Nor Drink in the World to Come': Fasting as Ascetic Practice in Elijah de Vidas's Reshit Ḥokhmah," in Reaching for Perfection: Studies on the Means and Goals of Ascetical Practices in an Interreligious Perspective, edited by Joseph Verheyden, Geert Roskam, Ann Heirman, and Johan Leemans, 123–142 (Leuven, Paris, and Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2022) (click here).

Patrick B. Koch and Agata Paluch. "Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity: Foreword." European Journal of Jewish Studies 16.1 (2022): 1-4 (click here).

Patrick B. Koch and Agata Paluch (ed.). Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity. Special Issue of the European Journal of Jewish Studies 16.1 (2022) (click here).

2021

Ilaria Briata. “Samaritans in Rabbinic Texts” (Italian). Ricerche Storico Bibliche 33.1 (2021): 229–247 (click here).

Ilaria Briata. "A Preliminary Study of the History of Sephardic Theatre in Italy." Zutot 18 (2021): 56–79 (click here).

Patrick B. Koch. “‘Gathering the Dispersed of Israel’ – The Evolution of a Lurianic Prayer Addendum for Tiqqun Qeri.” Harvard Theological Review 114.2 (2021): 241–264 (click here).

2020

Ilaria Briata. “Repentance through Fear: Cosmic and Body Horror in Shevet Musar.” European Journal of Jewish Studies 14.2 (2020): 264–284 (click here).

Patrick B. Koch. "Mysticism, Pietism, Morality: An Introduction." European Journal of Jewish Studies 14.2 (2020): 169–176 (click here).

Patrick B. Koch (ed.). Mysticism, Piety, and Morality. Special Issue of the European Journal of Jewish Studies 14.2 (2020) (click here).

Patrick B. Koch. “‘Many Books on Issues of Divine Service’ – Defining Musar in Early Modernity.” Journal of Jewish Studies 71.1 (2020): 1–24 (click here).

2019

Ilaria Briata. “¿Cual madre a hijo comio? La storia di Maria di Eleazar nelle fonti spagnole e giudeospagnole.” Materia Giudaica 24 (2019): 161–171 (click here).

Patrick B. Koch. “Of Stinging Nettles and Stones – The Use of Hagiography in Early Modern Kabbalistic and Pietistic Texts.” Jewish Quarterly Review 109.4 (2019): 534–566. (click here).

2018

Ilaria Briata. “Disgust, Ethics and Etiquette in the Rabbinic Tractates Derekh Eres Rabbah and Zuta.” Materia Giudaica 23 (2018): 67–75 (click here).

Patrick B. Koch. “‘Adventurer, (Pseudo-)Kabbalist, Theosophist’: Gershom Scholem’s Research on E. J. Hirschfeld.” In ‘Scholar and Kabbalist’: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem, edited by Miriam and Noam Zadoff, 17–39. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018 (click here).

2017

Patrick B. Koch. “‘Die Attribute der Gottheit’ – Zur literarischen Beziehung von Paulus Buchius und Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont.” Morgen-Glantz 27 (2017): 47–73 (click here).