Students

Post-Doctoral Fellows:

Completed PhD Dissertations:

Arieh Kofsky, Apologetics and Polemics against Pagans in Eusebius’ Works (1990)

Serge Ruzer, Biblical Quotations in the Old Syriac Gospels: Peshitta Influence and Hermeneutical constraints (1996)

Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Pilgrimage: Perceptions and Reactions in Patristic and Monastic Literature (4th-6th cent.) (1996)

Gershon Ner-El, The Messianic Jews in Mandatory Palestine: Trends and Changes in Shaping Identity (1997)

Stéphane Verhelst, La liturgie de Jérusalem a l’époque byzantine: genèse et structure de l’année liturgique (1999)

Daniel Stoeckl Ben-Ezra, The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity (2002)

Yaacov Deutsch, Ethnographic Studies of Judaism (16th-18th cent.) [with Michael Heyd] (2005)

Roly Zylberstein, The Byzantine image of the Jews (7th-11th cent.) [with Robert Bonfil] (2008)

Dania Marinov, Gregory of Nyssa and Ambrosius of Milan on the Song of Songs (2008)

Completed M.A. Theses:

Thomas Schmutz, Aspects of the Mystical Thought of Evagrius Ponticus

Daniel Stoekl Ben-Ezra, Yom Kippur im frühen Christentum (1997)

Noemi Pines: L’épisode du veau d’or (Ex 32) dans la polémique patristique jusqu’à Augustin (1999)

Tomer Persico, Aspects of the mystical thought of Meister Eckhart and Rabbi Kook (2004)

Jonathan Cahana, Rejection of the Past in “Gnostic” Texts and Proprietory Rhetoric in the Gospel of Thomas (2005)

Zeev Elizur, Aspects of the Iconoclastic controversy in eigth-century Byzantium (2005)