I.                    DISSERTATION: 1) “The Story of Job: A Survey of its Literary History, with special   reference to Medieval English Literature” (414 pages).  Supervisors: Prof. Morton W. Bloomfield and Prof. Larry D. Benson, Harvard University.  Ph.D. degree awarded: January 1973. 

II.                 BOOKS:

1)      The Legend of Job in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979).  177 pages

2)      Chaucer and the Bible: A Critical Review of Research, Indexes, and Bibliography (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1988).  432 pages

3)      Chaucer’s Biblical Poetics (Norman, Okla.: U of Oklahoma P, 1998).  345 pages

III.               EDITIONS:

1)      Co-editor, with Prof. Ruth Nevo, of the semi-annual issues of the journal Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts (Jerusalem: Hebrew University-The Magnes Press, 1980-1988).  6-10 articles, approx. 80-150 pages, per issue

2)      Lawrence Besserman, general editor, An Anthology of Medieval Literature (Tel Aviv: Dvir-The Israel Council for Translation of the Classics, 1991 [in Hebrew]).  277 pages

3)      Lawrence Besserman, editor, The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives.  New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1996.  271 pages

4)      Lawrence Besserman, editor, The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays. New Middle Ages Series. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s, forthcoming.

IV.              ARTICLES:

1)      "Three Unpublished Middle English Poems," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 71 (1970): 212-38 (with G. Gilman and V. Weinblatt)

2)      "A Note on the Source of Aelfric's Homily on the Book of Job," English Language Notes 10 (1973): 248-52

3)      "Some Modern English Merisms," American Speech 49 (1974): 302-03

4)      "The Owl and the Nightingale, lines 1691-92," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 76 (1975): 424-27

5)      "Merisms in Middle English Poetry," Annuale Mediaevale 17 (1976): 58-69

6)      "Chaucerian Wordplay: The Nun's Priest and His womman divyne" Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 68-73

7)      "Chaucer and the Bible: The Case of the Merchant's Tale," Hebrew University Studies in Literature 6 (1978): 10-31

8)      "The Wakefield Noah, lines 55-56," Papers on Language and Literature 15 (1979): 82-84

9)      "Chaucer and the Pope of Double Worsted," The Chaucer Newsletter 1 (1979): 15-16

10)  "The Dancers of Colbek, line 65,"Medium Aevum 49 (1980): 260

11)  "Glosynge is a Glorious thyng: Chaucer's Biblical Exegesis" in  Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition, ed. D. L. Jeffrey (Revue de l'Université d'Ottawa, vol. 53, 1983; rpt. U of Ottawa P, 1984), pp. 65-73

12)  "Gawain's Green Girdle," Annuale Medievale 22 (1982): 84-102

13)  "Chaucer and the Bible: Parody and Authority in the Pardoner's Tale," in Biblical Patterns in Modern Literature (Brown Judaic Studies, no. 77), ed. David H. Hirsch and Nehama Aschkenasy (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1984), pp. 43-50

14)  "The Idea of the Green Knight."  ELH: A Journal of English Literary History 53 (1986): 219-239

15)  "Girdles, Belts, and Cords: A Leitmotif in Chaucer's General Prologue."  Papers on Language and Literature 22 (1986): 322-25

16)  "Chaucer and the Bible: A Critical Review," Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 16 (1988): 1-26

17)  "A Note on the Sources of Chaucer's Troilus V, 540-613," Chaucer Review 24 (1990): 306-08

18)  "Being Sick in English: Notes on the Semantics of Illness," American Speech 64 (1989): 368-72

19)  "Chaucer's Epistle to Bukton and 'Truth' in Biblical Interpretation: Some Medieval and Modern Contexts," New Literary History 22 (1991): 177-97

20)  "Biblical Exegesis, Typology, and the Imagination of Chaucer," in Typology and English Medieval Literature, ed. Hugh T. Keenan, Georgia State Literary Studies, No. 7 (Athens, GA: Georgia State U; New York: AMS Press, 1992), pp. 183-205

21)  "Augustine, Chaucer, and the Translation of Biblical Poetics," in Mutual Translation of Cultures: Figuration of the Space Between, ed. Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995), pp. 68-84

22)  “Introduction,” in Besserman, ed. The Challenge of Periodization (1996; see “Editions,” no. 3, above), pp. xi-xxiv

23)  “The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives,” in The Challenge of Periodization (1996; see “Editions,” no. 3, above), pp. 3-27

24)  “Chaucer’s Multi-Word Verbs: An Historical Introduction and Illustrative Sample,” NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution (Odense, Denmark), vol. 34 (1998): 99-153

25)  “Ideology, Antisemitism, and Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale.” Chaucer Review 36 (2001): 48-72

26)  “Priest” and “Pope,” “Sire” and “Madame”: Anachronistic Diction and Social Conflict in Chaucer's Troilus,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23 (2001): 181-224

27)   “The Emergence of the Verb-Verb Compound in Twentieth Century English and Twentieth Century Linguistics.” Benji Wald and Lawrence Besserman In Donna Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds. Studies in the history of English: Millennial Perspective.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.  Pp.  417-448

28)  “Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Durham Ordinances of 1385,” English Language Notes 40/1 (2002): 14-22

29)  “Chaucer, Spain, and the Prioress’s Antisemitism.” Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 35 (2004) (forthcoming)

IVa.     COMMISSIONED ESSAYS, DICTIONARY ENTRIES: 

1)      "The Canterbury Tales: An Introduction," in Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, trans. Shimon Sandbank [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1980), pp. 573-88 (trans. from my English ms. by Sandbank)

2)      "Preface," Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts, 16 (1988), v-ix, special issue in memory of Morton W. Bloomfield (with Ruth Nevo)

3)      "Ark of the Covenant," "Circumcision," "Job," "Judas Iscariot," "Judas Maccabeus,"  articles in A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, ed. David Lyle Jeffrey (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), pp. 53-55, 141-43, 403-04, 418-19, and 420-22

IVb.     REVIEWS:

1)      Rev. of David C. Fowler, The Bible in Early English Literature (University of Washington Press, 1976), Speculum,  53 (1978), 572-73

2)      Rev. of Aharon Wiener, The Prophet Elijah in the Development of Judaism (London: RKP, 1978), in Judaism: A Quarterly Journal, 29 (1980), 378-79

3)      Rev. of G. Schiffhorst, ed., The Triumph of Patience:  Medieval and Renaissance Studies (University of Florida Press, 1978), Speculum 55 (1980): 606-08

4)      Rev. of Ann W. Astell, The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (Ithaca, N. Y. and London: Cornell UP, 1990); and E. Ann Matter, The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P, 1990), Speculum 67 (1992): 367-71

5)      Review-essay, "The Hebrew Roots of the English Language?" on Isaac E. Mozeson's The Word: The Dictionary that Reveals the Source of English (New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1989), in Judaism: A Quarterly Journal 41 (1992): 409-15

6)      Rev. of David Lyle Jeffrey, A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Wm. B Eerdmans, 1992), in Speculum 69 (1994): 1186-88

7)      Rev. of A. E. Hartung, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500, Vol. IX (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993), in Arthuriana 5.1 (1995): 84-87

8)      Rev. of Ann W. Astell, Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, N. Y. and London: Cornell UP, 1994), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995): 160-63

9)      Rev. of Bernard Spolsky and Robert L. Cooper, The Languages of Jerusalem, Oxford Studies in Language Contact (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1991), in Anthropological Linguistics, 37/2 (1995): 234-35

10)  Rev. of Eric Jager, The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature (Ithaca, N. Y. and London: : Cornell UP, 1993), in Speculum 70 (1995): 636-39

11)  Rev. of Michael P. Kuczynski, Prophetic Song as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England, Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1995), in Speculum 72 (1997): 193-95

12)  Rev. of D. A. Trotter, ed., Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain (Cambridge:             D. S. Brewer, 2000), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 24 (2002): 435-39

13)  Rev. of David Aers, Faith, Ethics and Church: Writing in England, 1360-1409 (Cambridge, Eng.: D. S. Brewer, 2000) in Speculum 77 (2002): 861-63

14)  Rev. of Jim Rhodes, Poetry Does Theology: Chaucer, Grosseteste, and the“Pearl”-Poet (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25 (2003): 411-14

15)  Rev. of Sheila Delany, ed.  Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), in Speculum 79/1 (2004): 166-67

16)  Rev. of Peter Brown, ed.  A Companion to Chaucer (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pb 2002).  Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 2/1 (January 2004): 200-03.]