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A. Books and Edited Volumes

• Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (Stanford University Press 2000, paperback 2001), Winner of the Salo Baron Wittmayer. Prize for a Best First Book in Jewish Studies, 2000; Finalist of the National Jewish Book Award, Category: Jewish Scholarship, 2000 (paperback version 2001)
• Jewish Conceptions and Practice of Space, ed. and intr. with Vered Shemtov, special edition of Jewish Social Studies 11:3 (Spring/ Summer 2005)
• Cambridge Companion to Rabbinic Literature, ed. and intr. with Martin Jaffee (Cambridge University Press, May 2007)
• Jacob Taubes, From Cult to Culture, ed., trsl. and preface with Amir Engel (Stanford University Press, January 2010)

B. Articles in Refeered Journals

• "Gynecological Exams in Rabbinic Literature - Women's Bodies Between Female Autonomy and Male Control," JAGNES 4:2, Fall 1993, pp.65-72
• "When the Rabbi Weeps: On Reading Gender in Talmudic Aggadah," in Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 4 (Fall 2001), pp.56-84
• "The Didascalia Apostolorum: A Mishnah for the Disciples of  Jesus," Journal of Early Christian Studies 9:4  (Winter 2001), pp.483-511
• "When Women Walk in the Ways of Their Fathers: On Gendering the Rabbinic Claim for Authority," in Journal of the History of Sexuality 10: 3/4 (Winter 2001)
• "From Separatism to Urbanism: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Rabbinic Eruv," Dead Sea Discoveries 11:1 (2004), pp.43-71
• “The Political Symbolism of the Eruv,” Jewish Social Studies 11:3 (Spring/Summer 2005), pp.9-35
• “On Carnal Israel and the Consequences: Talmudic Studies Since Foucault,” Jewish Quarterly Review 95:3 (Summer 2005), pp.462-469
• “Plato in Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai’s Cave (bShabbat 33b-34a): The Talmudic Inversion of Plato’s Politics,” AJS Review 31:2 (Fall 2007), pp.277-296
• “Blood and Law: Uterine Fluids and Rabbinic Maps of Identity,” Henoch 30:2 (2008) (special issue devoted to the topic of Blood) edited by Raanan Boustan and Annette Yoshiko Reed)
• “Neighborhood as Ritual Space: The Case of the Rabbinic Eruv,” for Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 10 (2008), pp.239-258 (as part of a group of papers on domestic and   public spaces for ritual in Late Antiquity)
• “Une Cartographie Symbolique: le eruv en Diaspora,” Cahiers du Judaisme 25:26-27 ( 2009)

C. Chapters in Books/Anthologies

• "Paul, How Can We Understand Him? How Do We Understand Our Understanding?" in Paul the Jew: Jewish/ Christian Dialogue, ed. by Wilhelm Wuellner and Haim Perelmuter, Center for Hermeneutical Studies 60, 1990, pp.48-53
• "The Women with a Blood-Flow (Mark 5:24-34) Revisited: Menstrual Polemics in Christian Feminist   Hermeneutics" in Early Interpretation of the Scriptures of Israel: Investigation and Proposals,  JTNTSup 148, ed. by Craig A.Evans and James A. Sanders, 1997, pp.121-141
• "Yalta's Ruse: Resistance Against Rabbinic Menstrual Authority in Talmudic Literature", in Women and Water: Female Rituals of Purification in Jewish History and Culture,ed. by Rachel Wasserfall, University Press of New England, 1999, pp.60-82
• "To Increase Torah is to Increase Life: Poetics of the Mind and Poetics of the Everyday in Jewish Culture," in The Meaning of Life in the World Religions, Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1999, pp.71-93
• "Taming the Powers of Desire: Love and Sex in Jewish Culture," in Love, Sex and Gender in the World Religions, ed. by Joseph Runzo and Nancy M. Martin, Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2000, pp.113-129
• "Von Deutschland zum Judentum," in Zwischen-Räume: Deutsche  feministische Theologinnen im Ausland, ed. by Katharina von Kellenbach und Susanne Scholz, Munster - Hamburg/ London: LitVerlag, 2000, pp.41-54
• "The Beginnings of Rabbinic Textuality: Women's Bodies and Paternal Knowledge," in Beginning/Again: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts, ed. by Aryeh Cohen and Shaul Magid, New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2001, pp.49-68
• “Frauen im Judentum,” in Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa, vol.II, ed. by E.V.Kotowski, J.H. Schoeps and H. Wallenborn, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001 “Judaism and Violence,” Religion and Violence, ed. by Philippe Buc, published in Morocco (in Arabic), 2002
• “The Semiotics of the Sexed Body in Early Halakhic Discourse,” in Closed and Open: Readings of Rabbinic Texts, ed. by Matthew A. Kraus (Gorgias Press: 2006, in print), pp.69-96 (Williams College conference volume)
• “Jewish Christians, Judaizers, and Christian Anti-Judaism,” in Late Ancient Christianity, ed. by Virginia Burrus and Rebecca Lyman, Vol. 2 of A People’s History of Christianity (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005), pp.234-255
• “The Handmaid, the Trickster and the Birth of the Messiah: A Critical Appraisal of the Feminist Valorization of Midrash Aggada,” in Current Trends in the Study of Midrash,ed. by Carol Bakhos, Supplement to Journal for the Study of Judaism 106,(Leiden: Brill, 2006), 245-277
• “Regulating the Human Body: Rabbinic Legal Discourse and the Making of Jewish Gender,” in Cambridge Companion to Rabbinic Literature, ed. by C. Fonrobert and M. Jaffee (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• “Gender Politics in the Rabbinic Neighborhood: Tractate Eruvin,” in Introduction to the Feminist Talmud Commentary – Seder Moed, ed. by Tal Ilan, Tamara Or, Dorothea M. Salzer, Christiane Steuer and Irina Wanderey (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007)

D. Encyclopedia Articles

• “Abomination,” “Androginos,” “Blasphemy,” “Blood” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, April 2009)
• “Orthodoxy,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (forthcoming, Macmillan USA, 2007)
• “Gender Identity in Jewish Law,” in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (CD-Rom Edition), ed. by Paula Hyman and Dalia Ofer (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2007)
• “Purification in Judaism,” in Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition (2004)

E. Book Reviews

• Catherine Heszer, "Form, Function, and Historical  Significance of the Rabbinic Story in Yerushalmi Neziqin," 1993, in Religious Studies Review
• Reinhard Feldmeier and Ulrich Heckel, eds., "Die Heiden: Juden, Christen und das Problem des Fremden," 1994, for IOUDAIOS Review (professional computer list)
• Neusner, Jacob, "Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament," 1994 for Journal of Biblical Literature
• Michael L. Satlow, "Tasting the Dish: Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality," 1995 for Religious Studies Review
• J. Julius Scott, "Customs and Controversies: Intertestamental Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament," 1995, for Critical Review of Books in Religion
• Robert Brody, "The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture," 1998 for Hebrew Literature
• Miriam Peskowitz, "Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History," 1997, for Journal of American Academy of Religion 67:1 (March 1999), pp.245-248
• Judith Hauptman, "Rereading the Rabbis: A Women's Voice," 1998, for Religious Studies Review
• Meir Bar-Ilan, Some Jewish Women in Antiquity, 1998, for Association for Jewish Studies Review 25:1 (2000/2001), pp.101-104
• James L. Kugel, ed., Studies in Ancient Midrash, Shofar 22:4 (Summer 2004)
• Gabriele Boccaccini, Roots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History: From Ezekiel to Daniel, Shofar 22:4 (Summer 2004)
• Michael L. Satlow, Jewish Marriage in Antiquity, Shofar 23: (Winter 2005)
• Michael L. Satlow, Jewish Marriage in Antiquity, Review of Biblical Literature (Winter 2003)
• Paul Heger, The Pluralistic Halakhah, Review of Biblical Literature, (Winter 2003)
• Giuseppe Veltri, Gegenwart der Tradition: Studien zur jüdischen Literature und Kulturgeschichte (2002), for Studia Philonica Annual, 2004
• Sivertsev, Alexei, Households, Sects, and the Origins of Rabbinic Judaism, Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 102 (2005), for Journal for the Study of Judaism (Winter 2006/2007)
• Evyatar Marienberg, Niddah: Lorsque les juifs conceptualisent la menstruation (2003), for AJS Review, Summer 2007
• Schlör, Joachim, Das Ich der Stadt (2005); together with M. Kümper, B. Rösch, U. Schneider, H. Thien, eds., Makom: Orte und Räume im Judentum (2007), and J. Brauch, A. Lipphardt, and A. Nocke, Jewish Topographies: Visions of Space, Traditions or Place (2008), Review Essay for AJS Review 33:1 (Spring 2009)

F. Commentaries

• Post-Biblical Literary Commentary on select Torah Portions (“Tazria,” “Metzora,” “Bechukotai,” “Re’eh”), 750 words each, for Women’s Torah Commentary (New York: URJ Press, 2007)
• Jewish Mosaic, Torah Queeries Commentary, “Va-yikra’”(NYU Press, 2009)