Research


Palestine in Late Antiquity

Palestine in Late Antiquity

Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity

Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity

Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices

Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices

The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity

The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity

Jewish Childhood in the Roman World

Jewish Childhood in the Roman World Available in May 2018

Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress

Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress (Women in Antiquity)

Between Woman, Man and God

Between Woman, Man and God: A New Interpretation of The Ten Commandments

Dinah's Daughters

Dinah's Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity

The Paintings of the Dura Europos Synagogue

The Paintings of the Dura Europos Synagogue

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Re(Searching) Life: A Contemplation of Organizing Collectively

 

Books:

  • Jewish Childhood in the Roman World (CUP forthcoming)
  • Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011)
  • Palestine in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008)
    (Reviewed by Peter Brown, New York Review of Books, June 11, 2009, 41-43)
  • Between Woman, Man and God: A New Interpretation of The Ten Commandments (Sheffield and Edinburgh: Sheffield UP/Continuum/T@T Clark, 2004)(hardcover and paperback)
  • Dinah’s Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity (as Helena Zlotnick)(Philadelphia 2002)(hardcover and paperback)
  • Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (co-edit, introduction; with R. W. Mathisen)(Aldershot: Variorum, 1996).
  • Ausonius of Bordeaux (London and New York: Routledge, 1993)(joint winner of the Routledge Ancient History Prize; winner of the French Academy’s Toutain Blanchet Prize)
  • The Paintings of the Dura Europos Synagogue (New Haven 1978). A scholarly guidebook to the exhibit “Biblical Images” organized in conjunction with Yale University Art Gallery.

Also:

  • Re(Searching) Life: A Contemplation of Organizing Collectively (ed. with Gunda Georg, Medicinal Chemistry)(based on the Fall 2002 faculty colloquium at KU Hall Center for the Humanities)(Lawrence 2004)