Books Written and Edited

Publications

Joshua Schwartz

1. Jewish Settlement in Judaea after the Bar-Kochba War and until the Arab Conquest, Jerusalem: the Magnes Press, 1986 (Hebrew).

2. Lod (Lydda), Israel: From its Origins through the Byzantine Period, Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, British Archaeological Reports International Series 571, 1991.

3. Hiqrei Eretz: Yehuda Feliks Jubilee Volume, Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1997 (with Y. Friedman and Z. Safrai) (Hebrew).

4. Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Modernity, Leiden: E. J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 1, 1998 (with M. Poorthuis and A. Houtman).

5. Medicine in Jerusalem Throughout the Ages, Tel-Aviv: Eretz; C. G. Foundation Jerusalem Project and Unit of the History of Medicine in Israel, 1999 (with Z. Amar and E. Lev) (Hebrew and English).

6. Purity and Holiness in Judaism and Christianity: The Heritage of Leviticus, Leiden: E. J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 2, 2000 (with M. Poorthuis).

7. Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, Arie Kindler Volume, Tel-Aviv: Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies and Eretz-Israel Museum, 2000 (with Z. Amar and I. Ziffer) (Hebrew and English).

8. Women in Jerusalem throughout the Ages, Ramat-Gan: Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, 2002 (Hebrew) (with T. Cohen).

9. Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity, Leiden: E.J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 7, 2004 (with Marcel Poorthuis).

10. A Holy People: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity, Leiden and Boston: E. J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 12, 2006 (with M. Poorthuis)

11. The Literature of the Sages, Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Amsterdam: Royal Van Gorcum and Fortress Press, 2006 (with P. Tomson, S. Safrai (z"l) and Z. Safrai ).

12. Studies in Josephus and the Varieties of Judaism: Louis H. Feldman Jubilee Volume, Leiden: E.J. Brill; Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 67, 2007 (with Shaye J. D. Cohen).

13. Isolation, Independence, Syncretism and Dialogue: Models of Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in the Past and Present, Leiden and Boston: E.J.Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspective Series 17, 2008 (with M. Poorthuis and J. Turner).

14. The Actuality of Sacrifice: Past and Present, Leiden and Boston: Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspective Series 28, 2014 (with Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis and Joseph Turner).

15. Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: How to Write Their History, Brill, Leiden; CRINT 13, 2014, (with Peter J. Tomson).

16. Jerusalem: From its Beginning to the Ottoman Conquest (Ramat-Gan: Ingenborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, 2017) (with Avraham Faust and Eyal Baruch) (Hebrew).

17. Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70-132 CE, to appear as CRINT 15, Leiden: Brill (with Peter J. Tomson).

18. The History of Jerusalem: The Second Temple Period to be published by Yad ben Zvi (together with Ronny Reich as Isaiah Gafni as co-editors) (Hebrew).

Chapters in Books

19. “Sinai in the History of Israel and in Jewish Thought,” in Z. Meshel and I. Finklestein (eds.), Qadmoniyot Sinai, Tel-Aviv: Kibbutz Ha-Meuhad, 1980, 79-87 (Hebrew).

20. “Jewish Settlement in Judaea and the Southern Coastal Region in the Third and Fourth Centuries CE,” in Z. Baras et al. (eds.), Eretz-Israel from the Destruction of the Second Temple until the Muslim Conquest, Jerusalem: Yad ben-Zvi, 1982, I, 180-201 (Hebrew).

21. “Judaea in the Wake of the Bar-Kochba Revolt,” in A. Oppenheimer and U. Rappaport (eds.), The Bar-Kochba Revolt: New Studies, Jerusalem: Yad ben-Zvi, 1984, 215-223 (Hebrew).

22. “Between a Nation and Its People: Judaea and Samaria in the Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud Periods,” in J. Levita (ed.), The High Mountain of Israel: Judaea and Samaria- Past, Present and Trends in the Future, Tel-Aviv: Defense Ministry Press, 1984, 62-77 (Hebrew).

23. “Everyday Life in Tiberias in the Mishnah and Talmud Periods,” in Y. Hirschfeld (ed.), Tiberias: From Beginnings until the Muslim Conquest, Jerusalem, Yad ben-Zvi, Idan11, 1988, 103-110 (Hebrew).

24. “On Economy and Trade in Lydda during the Yavneh Period,” in I. Gafni et al. (eds.), Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud Period, Jerusalem: Yad ben Zvi, 1993, 198-211 (Hebrew).

25. “The Southern Mt. Hebron region in the Mishnah and Talmud Period,” in Z. Ehrlich (ed.), Peraqim be-Nahalat Yehuda, Benai Beraq: Moriah, 1995, 239-251 (Hebrew).

26. “Peter and Ben Stada in Lydda,” in R. Bauckham (ed.), The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, IV, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1995, 391-414.

27. “Birah and Baris in Jerusalem,” in M. Poorthuis and C. Safrai (eds.), The Centrality of Jerusalem: Historical Perspectives, Kampen: Pharos, 1996, 29-49.

28. “The Economy of Judaea in the Hasmonean Period,” in D. Amit and H. Eshel, The Hasmonean Period, Jerusalem: Yad ben-Zvi, Idan, 1996, 125-131 (Hebrew).

29. “On Mishnah Tamid and Jericho,” in J. Schwartz et al. (eds.) Hiqrei Eretz: Yehuda Feliks Jubilee Volume. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1997, 247-257 (Hebrew).

30. “The Patriotic Rabbi: Babylonian Scholars in Roman Period Palestine” in S. Pearce and L. Jones (eds.), Jewish Local Patriotism and Self-Identification in the Graeco-Roman Period, Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 31, 1998, 118-131.

31. “To Stand-Perhaps To Sit: Sitting and Standing in the Azarah,” in J. Schwartz, M. Poorthuis and A. Houtman (eds.), Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Modernity, Leiden: E. J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 1, 1998, 167-189.

32. “The Absorption of Olim from Babylonia in the Mishnah and Talmud Period,” in D. Ha-Cohen, Aliyah to the Land of Israel, Jerusalem: Mercaz Shazar, 1998, 51-65 (Hebrew).

33. “Archaeology and the City,” in D. Sperber, The City in Roman Palestine, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 149-194.

34. “Gambling in Ancient Jewish Society,” in M. Goodman, Jews in the Graeco-Roman World, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, 145-165.

35. “Aspects of Leisure-Time Activities in Roman Period Palestine,” in P. Schaefer (ed.), The Talmud Yerushalmi in Greco-Roman Culture, Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998, 313-325.

36. “The Ark of the Lord in Ancient Jewish Art,” in I. Rosenson, Following the Ark of the Lord: On the Wanderings of the Ark in the Shefelah of Judaea, Elkanah, Eretz Hefetz Institute, 1998, 32-40 (Hebrew).

37. “On Birds, Rabbis and Skin Disease,” in J. Schwartz and M. Poorthuis (eds.), Purity and Holiness in Judaism and Christianity: The Heritage of Leviticus, Leiden: E. J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 2, 2000, 207-222.

38. “Purity and Holiness: An Introductory Survey,” in J. Schwartz and M. Poorthuis (eds.), Purity and Holiness in Judaism and Christianity: The Heritage of Leviticus, Leiden: E. J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 2, 2000, 3-26.

39. “John the Baptist, the Wilderness and the Samaritan Mission,” in G. Galil and M. Weinfeld (eds.), Studies in Historical Geography and Biblical Historiography Presented to Zecharia Kallai, Leiden: E. J. Brill, Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 2000, 104-117.

40. “Gilgal and the Lord’s Field,” in Joshua Schwartz, Zohar Amar and Irit Ziffer (eds.), Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, Arie Kindler Volume, Tel-Aviv: Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies and Eretz-Israel Museum, 2000, 77*-88*.

41. “The Relationship Between Jews and Non-Jews in the Mishnah and Talmud Period in Light of Their Attitudes to Play and Leisure Time Activities,” in A. Oppenheimer et al. (eds.), Jew and Gentiles in the Holy Land in the Days of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and the Talmud: a collection of articles, Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2003, 132-141(Hebrew)

42. “Dogs in Ancient Jewish Rural Society,” in A. M. Maeir, S. Dar and Z. Safrai (eds.), The Rural Landscape of Ancient Israel, Oxford: BAR International Series 1121; Archaeopress, 2003, 127-136.

43. "Introduction" in Joshua Schwartz and Marcel Poorthuis (eds.), Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity, Leiden: E.J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 7, 2004 (with Marcel Poorthuis), pp. 3-6.

44. “Material Culture in the Land of Israel: Monks and Rabbis on Clothing and Dress in the Byzantine Period" in Joshua Schwartz and Marcel Poorthuis (eds.), Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity, Leiden: E.J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 7, 2004 (with Marcel Poorthuis), pp. 121-137.

45. “Material Culture and Rabbinic Literature in the Land of Israel in Late Antiquity: Beds, Bedclothes, and Sleeping Habits,” in L. I. Levine (ed.), Continuity and Renewal: Jews and Judaism in Byzantine-Christian Palestine, Jerusalem: Dinur Center for the Study of History, Yad Ben-Zvi and The Jewish Theological Seminary, 2004, pp. 197-209 (Hebrew).

46. "Wirkungsgeschichte of the Tower of Babel Story in Jewish Tradition, (= De torenbouw van Babel in de joodse traditie) " in Ellen van Wolde (ed.), The Tower of Babel (= De toren van Babel), Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2004, 73-87, 155-157.

47. “Temple and Temple Mount in the Book of Acts: Early Christian Activity, Topography and Halachah,” Jack Pastor and Menachem Mor (eds.), The Beginnings of Christianity, Jerusalem: Yad ben Zvi, 2005, pp. 279-295.

48. "Jew and Non-Jew in the Roman Period in Light of Their Play, Games, and Leisure-Time Activities," in J. Harold Ellens et al. (eds.), God's Word for Our World, Theological and Cultural Studies in Honor of Simon John De Vries, London and New York: Clark International; Continuum, 2005, pp. 128-140.

49. "A Holy People in the Winepress: Treading the Grapes and Holiness," in Joshua Schwartz and Marcel Poorthuis (eds.), A Holy People: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity, Leiden and Boston: E. J. Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspectives 12, 2006, pp. 39-51.

50. “The Realities of Material Culture in Jewish Society in Roman Palestine,” in Steven Katz (editor), The Cambridge History of Judaism: The Late Roman Period-Rabbinic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 431-456.

51. "Are the 'Halachic Temple Mount' and the 'Outer Court' of Josephus One and the Same?" in Joshua Schwartz and Shaye J.D. Cohen (eds.), Studies in Josephus and the Varieties of Judaism: Louis H. Feldman Jubilee Volume, Leiden: E.J. Brill; Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 67, 2007, pp. 207-222.

52. "Katzen in der antiken juedischen Gesellschaft," in Rainer Kampling (ed.), Eine seltsame Gefaehrtin-Katzen, Religion, Theologie, Theologen, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang; Apeliotes, Studien zur Kulturgeschichte und Theologie, Bd.1, 2007, pp. 41-73.

53. "Issues in Reconstructing a Site for which Archaeological Evidence is Lacking: the Second Temple in Jerusalem (Herodian Phase)," in Antonella Coralini and Daniela Scagliarini Corlaita (eds.), Ut natura Ars: Virtual Reality e archeologia-Atti della Giornata di Studi (Bologna, 22 aprile 2002), Bologna: University Press Bologna; Imola, 2007, pp. 59-69.

54. "The Deserts of Palestine: Wilderness in the Thought of the Rabbis and the Desert Fathers: Geographic Reality and the Crisscrossing of Motifs," in Joshua Schwartz (ed.) (with M. Poorthuis and J. Turner), Isolation, Independence, Syncretism and Dialogue: Models of Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in the Past and Present, Leiden and Boston: E.J.Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspective Series 17, 2008, pp. 141-161.

55. "Bar Qatros and the Priestly Families of Jerusalem," Hillel Geva (ed.), Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem Conducted by Nahman Avigad, 1969-1982, Volume IV: The Burnt House of Area B and Other Studies, Final Report (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society- Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010), pp. 308-319.

56. "Play and Games" in Catherine Hezser (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 641-653.

57. "Sinai-Mountain and Desert: The Desert Geography and Theology of the Rabbis and Desert Fathers," in Zeev Weiss, Oded Irshai, Jodi Magness and Seth Schwartz, 'Follow the Wise' (B. Sanhedrin 32b): Studies in Jewish History and Culture in Honor of Lee I. Levine (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2010), 357-376.

58. "Jesus the 'Material Jew'," in Zeev Garber (ed.), The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University: 2011), 47-64.

59. "Notes on the Virtual Reconstruction of the Herodian Period Temple and Courtyards" in Steven Fine (ed.), The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah: In Honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman (Leiden-Boston, 2011), 69-89) (with Yehoshua Peleg)

60. “How Jewish to be Jewish? Self-identity and Jewish Christians in First Century CE Palestine,” in B. Isaac and Y. Shahar (eds.), Judaea, Babylon and Rome: Jews in Antiquity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012), 55-73.

61. " 'Reduce, Reuse and Recycle' – Prolegomena on Breakage and Repair in Ancient Jewish Society: Broken Beds and Chairs in Mishnah Kelim" (Hebrew), in Yuval Shahar (ed.), Aharon Oppenheimer and Raz Mustigman (co-eds.), Teuda, 25, Israel and the Diaspora in the Time of the Second Temple and the Mishnah: Aryeh Kasher MemorialVolume (Jerusalem: Tel-Aviv University, 2012), 295-326 (Heb).

62. “Jews at the Dicing Table: Gambling in Ancient Jewish Society Revisited,” in Ra`anan Boustan, Klaus Hermann, Reimund Leicht, Annette Yoshiko Reed and Giuseppe Veltri (eds.), Envisioning Judaism: Studies in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013), 129-145.

63. "Cult and Ritual on the Temple Mount during the Second Temple Period" to appear in The History of Jerusalem: The Second Temple Period to be published by Yad ben Zvi (together with Ronny Reich as Isaiah Gafni as co-editors) (Hebrew).

64. "Jesus in Jerusalem" (co-author Eyal Regev) to appear in The History of Jerusalem: The Second Temple Period to be published by Yad ben Zvi (together with Ronny Reich as Isaiah Gafni as co-editors) (Hebrew).

65. "Good Dog-Bad Dog: Jews and Their Dogs in Ancient Jewish Society" to appear in Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman and Rakefet Zalashik, A Jew's Best Friend? The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History, Brighton-Portland-Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2013, 52-89.

66. "Methodological Remarks on 'Jewish' Identity: Jews, Jewish Christians and Prolegomena on Pauline Judaism," in Peter Tomson et al. (eds.), Jewish Perspectives on Paul: 2 Corinthians and Late Second Temple Judaism, Leiden: Brill; CRINT 14, 2014, pp. 36-58.

67. “Sacrifice Without the Rabbis: Ritual and Sacrifice in the Second Temple Period according to the Sources of the Second Temple Period,” in Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz and Joseph Turner (eds.), The Actuality of Sacrifice: Past and Present, Leiden/Boston: Brill; Jewish and Christian Perspective Series 28, 2014, pp. 123-149.

68. “Yavne Revisited: Jewish Survival in the Wake of the War of Destruction,” in Joshua Schwartz and Peter J. Tomson (eds.), Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: How to Write Their History, Brill, Leiden; CRINT 13, 2014, pp. 238-252.

69. "Ancient Lod: An Historical Survey from the Persian through the Byzantine Period," in Laura Lappin (ed.), The Lod Mosaic: A Spectacular Roman Mosaic Floor, New York, Israel Antiquities Authority and Scala Arts Publisher, 2015, pp. 24-37.

70. "Teaching Jesus in a Halakhic Jewish Setting in Israel: Kosher, Treif, or Pareve," in Zev Garber (ed.), Teaching the Historical Jesus: Issues and Exegesis, New York and London: Routledge; Taylor and Francis Group, 2015, pp. 156-167.

71. "Ancient Lod: An Historical Survey from the Persian Period through the Byzantine Period," in Alon Shavit, Tawfiq Da'adli, Yuval Gadot, Lod: "Diospolis-City of God"- Collected Papers on the History and Archaeology of Lod, Lod; Israel Institute of Archaeology, 2015, pp. 101-119.

72. “Color and Hair in Rabbinic Literature,” in Geoffrey Herman, Meir ben Shahar and Aharon Oppenheimer, Between Babylonia and the Land of Israel: Studies in Honor of Isaiah M. Gafni (Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2017), pp. 387-400 (Hebrew).

73. "Jerusalem from Alexander the Great until the Destruction of the Second Temple," in Avraham Faust, Eyal Baruch and Joshua Schwartz, Jerusalem: From its Beginning to the Ottoman Conquest (Ramat-Gan: Ingenborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, 2017), pp. 103-138 (Hebrew).

74. "Jerusalem in the New Testament," in Avraham Faust, Eyal Baruch and Joshua Schwartz, Jerusalem: From its Beginning to the Ottoman Conquest (Ramat-Gan: Ingenborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, 2017), pp.145-158 (with Eyal Regev) (Hebrew).

75. "Encounters in the Playground: Jewish and Christian Children at Play in Roman-Byzantine Palestine, " in Paul van Gest, Marcel Poorthuis and Els Rose, Sanctifying Texts, Transforming rituals: Encounters in Liturgical Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 349-365.

76. "Lod of the Yavneh Period: How a City was Cheated Out of its Period," to appear in Joshua J. Schwartz and Peter J. Tomson, Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70-132 CE, to appear as CRINT 15, Leiden: Brill

Articles

77. “Tension between Palestinian Scholars and Babylonian Olim in Amoraic Palestine, “Journal for the Study of Judaism, 11 (1981), 79-84.

78. “Babylonian Commoners in Amoraic Palestine,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 101 (1981), 317-322.

79. “Sinai in Jewish Thought and Tradition,” Immanuel, 13 (1981), 7-14.

80. “Southern Judaea and Babylonia,” Jewish Quarterly Review, 72 (1982), 178-192.

81. “Jerome and the Jews of Judaea,” Zion, 47 (1982), 186-191 (Hebrew).

82. “Aliyah from Babylonia during the Amoraic Period,” Cathedra, 21 (1982), 23-30 (Hebrew).

83. “Tension Between Scholars of Southern Judaea and the Galilee in the Mishnah and Talmud Period,” Sinai, 93 (1983), 102-109 (Hebrew).

84. “Aliyah from Babylonia during the Amoraic Period (200-500 C. E.),” The Jerusalem Cathedra, 3 (1983), 58-69.

85. “Jubilees, Bethel and the Temple of Jacob,” Hebrew Union College Annual, 56 (1985), 63-85.

86. “Be’er Ha-Qar, Bor Heqer and the Seleucid Akra,” Cathedra, 37 (1986), 3-16 (Hebrew).

87. “The Temple of Jacob and the Cult at Bethel in the Second Temple Period, “ Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division B, I, Jerusalem, 1986, 7-12 (Hebrew).

88. “The Encaenia of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, The Temple of Solomon and the Jews,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 43 (1987), 265-281.

89. “The Morphology of Roman Lydda,” Jewish History, 2 (1987), 33-66.

90. “On Priests and Jericho in the Second Temple Period,” Jewish Quarterly Review, 79 (1988), 23-48.

91. “On the History of Lod in the Persian Period,” Cathedra, 49 (1989), 3-12 (Hebrew).

92. “Once More on the ‘Boundary of Gezer’ Inscriptions and the History of Gezer in the Second Temple Period,” Israel Exploration Journal, 40 (1990), 47-58.

93. “On Zonen and His Son Beytus,” Sinai, 103 (1989), 108-122 (Hebrew).

94. “Gallus, Julian and Anti-Christian Polemic in Pesikta Rabbati,” Theologische Zeitschrift, 46 (1990), 1-19.

95. “Ben Stada and Peter in Lod,” Journal for the Study of Judaism, 21 (1990), 1-18.

96. “Gallus, Julian the Apostate and Anti-Christian Polemic in Pesikta Rabbati,” in Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division B, I, Jerusalem, 1990, 30-36 (Hebrew).

97. “On Mattathias and the Desert of Samaria, “ Revue Biblique, 98 (1991), 252-271 (with J. Spanier).