Contributors
Yaacov Deutsch
received his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2005). He is the head of the History Department at David Yellin College and also teaches at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His research focuses on Christian-Jewish relations in the medieval and early modern periods, and especially on Christian Hebraism.
His first book, Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Period, was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press. He is also one of the editors of Religion and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2013) and of Toledot Yeshu Reconsidered (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011). In addition, he is one of the editors of Jewish Studies, the journal of the World Union of Jewish Studies.
Martin Klöckener
is a Roman Catholic theologian and Professor of Liturgical Studies at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland and Director of the “Institut de Sciences liturgiques” of this university. His research and publications focus especially on the field of history and theology of the liturgy. He is also chief editor of the “Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft” and of the series “Spicilegium Friburgense,” and co-editor of the “Augustinus-Lexikon” and the “Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen.”
Katrin Kogman-Appel
holds an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2015–2020), which she assumed in Jewish Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. She has published work on medieval Jewish art and is particlarly interested in Hebrew manuscript illumination and its cultural and social contexts. She is the author of Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity (E. J. Brill, 2004), of Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), which won the Premio del Rey Prize of the American Historical Association in 2009, and A Mahzor from Worms: Art and Religion in a Medieval Jewish Community, a monograph on the Leipzig Mahzor (Harvard University Press, 2012) which was a finalist of the National Jewish Book Award (scholarship).
Clemens Leonhard
received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1999 after studies in theology, Oriental studies, and Jewish studies in Vienna, Toronto, and Jerusalem. He completed his Habilitation in 2005 (University of Bonn). In 2006, he was appointed Professor for Liturgical Studies at the University of Münster. He spent the academic year 2011/2012 as a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and the spring break of studies in 2018 as a fellow of the Max-Weber-Kolleg in Erfurt.
Hillel Mali
obtained his PhD from the University of Bar-Ilan in 2018. His dissertation, “Descriptions of the Temple in the Mishnah,” written under the supervision of the late Professor Aharon Shemesh, was awarded the Riklis Prize for Excellence in Research. Dr. Mali currently serves as Lecturer of Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Literature at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, and is a Visiting Scholar at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His current research pertains to ritual texts from Qumran and to the relation between text and practice in ancient Jewish literature on ritual purity.
Annett Martini
received her PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin with a study on Yosef Gikatilla’s Sefer ha-niqqud and its reception in Renaissance thought. Currently, she is conducting a research project on the manuscripts of the “Erfurt collection” at the Institute for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2018 she completed her Habilitation with a study on concepts of ritual writing in the STaM (i.e., Sefer Torah, tefillin, and mezuzot) in medieval Ashkenaz on the background of Christian book culture.
Her publications include “Arbeit des Himmels”: Jüdische Konzeptionen des rituellen Schreibens in der europäischen Kultur des Mittelalters; Eine Studie zur Herstellung der STaM in Frankreich und Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung der christlichen Schreibkultur (forthcoming); Yosef Giqatilla: The Book of Punctuation; Flavius Mithridates’ Latin Translation, the Hebrew Text, and an English Version, edited with introduction and notes by Annett Martini (Turin, 2010); “Ritual Consecration in the Context of Writing the Holy Scrolls: Jews in Medieval Europe between Demarcation and Acculturation,” European Journal of Jewish Studies 11, no. 2 (2017): 174–202; “Die ‘geflüsterte’ Tradition: Meister-Schüler-Verhältnisse in der aufblühenden spanischen Kabbala des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts,” in Meister und Schüler / Master and Disciple: Tradition, Transfer, Transformation, ed. Almut-Barbara Renger and Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch (München, 2016), 153–68.
Stefan Reif
is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Hebrew Studies and Fellow of St. John’s College in the University of Cambridge. He also holds senior research posts at the Universities of Haifa and Tel Aviv. He was the Founding Director of the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library (1973–2006) He has over four hundred publications to his name. His volumes include A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo (2000), Problems with Prayers (2006), Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Genizah (2016) and Jews, Bible and Prayer (2017).
Gerard Rouwhorst
is Professor Emeritus of Liturgical Studies at Tilburg School of Catholic Theology of Tilburg University (Netherlands). His research focuses on the history of early Christian worship and in particular on the relations between early Christian and Jewish liturgical traditions. He is the author of “Christlicher Gottesdienst und der Gottesdienst Israels, Forschungsgeschichte, historische Interaktionen, Theologie,” in Gottesdienst im Leben der Christen, vol. 2, pt. 2 of Gottesdienst der Kirche: Handbuch der Liturgiewissenschaft, ed. Martin Klöckener et al. (Regensburg, 2008); President of the Society of Oriental Liturgy and Editor-in-Chief of Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae (Brill).
Anders Runesson
is Professor of New Testament at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively in the fields of synagogue studies and New Testament studies, as well as on ancient Jewish and Christian interaction. His publications include The Origins of the Synagogue: A Socio-Historical Study, ConBNT 37 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2001); with Donald D. Binder and Birger Olsson, The Ancient Synagogue from Its Origins to 200 CE: A Source Book, AJEC 72 (Leiden: Brill, 2008); Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew: The Narrative World of the First Gospel (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016); “Jewish and Christian Interaction From the First to the Fifth Centuries,” in The Early Christian World, 2nd ed., ed. Philip F. Esler (London: Routledge, 2017).
Jonathan Schorsch
serves as Professor of Jewish Religious and Intellectual History at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The most recent of his books is The Food Movement, Culture and Religion: A Tale of Pigs, Christians, Jews and Politics (New York: Palgrave, 2018). Other recent publications include “Looking for an Ecological God,” Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, ed. Martin S. Cohen, Saul Berman, and David Birnbaum (New York: New Paradigm Publishing, 2019) and “Sabbath for the Anthropocene Age,” One World—Many Faiths: Religious Contributions to Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, Berliner Reihe für Mission, Ökumene und Dialog (Berlin: Wichern, 2019). In 2016, he founded the Jewish Activism Summer School (Berlin), which he directs.
Günter Stemberger
is Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish Studies, University of Vienna. He specializes in rabbinic literature and the history of Judaism in late antiquity. His publications include Jews and Christians in the Holy Land: Palestine in the Fourth Century (Edinburgh, 2000), and Einleitung in Talmud und Midrasch, 9th ed. (Munich, 2011).