Publications

In Preparation

Boustan, Raʿanan, and Karen Britt. n.d. “Jonah and the Three Fish in the Synagogue at Huqoq: Between Mosaic and Midrash.”

Forthcoming

Boustan, Ra’anan, and Karen Britt. “Making Space: The Viewing Experience of the Huqoq Synagogue Mosaics”. In The Proceedings of the XVth Conference of the Association Internationale Pour l’Étude De La Mosaïque Antique: Mosaics in Context.
Boustan, Raʻanan, and Joseph E. Sanzo. n.d. “Magic at the Intersection of Judaism and Christianity”. In A Handbook of Jewish Magic, edited by Siam Bhayro and Ortal-Paz Saar. Leiden: Brill.

2023

Boustan, Raʿanan, and Karen Britt. 2023. “Warrior Women: Deborah and Yael Found at Huqoq”. Biblical Archaeology Review 49.4: 54–59.
Boustan, Ra’anan, Karen Britt, Jodi Magness, and others. 2023. “Huqoq–2022: Preliminary Report (Hebrew and English)”. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel 135. Publisher’s version: Huqoq–2022: Preliminary Report (Hebrew and English).
Boustan, Ra’anan, David Frankfurter, and Annette Yoshiko Reed, eds. 2023. Above, Below, Before, and After: Studies on Judaism and Christianity in Dialogue With Martha Himmelfarb. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Boustan, Ra’anan. 2023. “Hekhalot Literature, Scholastic Ritual, and Intercessory Prayer in Midrash Mishle”. In Above, Below, Before and After: Studies on Judaism and Christianity in Dialogue With Martha Himmelfarb, 475–91. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Boustan, Ra’anan, David Frankfurter, and Annette Yoshiko Reed. 2023. “Introduction: Tours by the Light of Martha Himmelfarb”. In Above, Below, Before and After: Studies on Judaism and Christianity in Dialogue With Martha Himmelfarb, edited by Ra’anan Boustan, David Frankfurter, and Annette Yoshiko Reed, 1–12. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Boustan, Ra’anan, Karen Britt, and Jodi Magness and others. 2023. “The Ḥuqoq Synagogue Excavations: Report on the 2011–2018 Seasons”. In Ancient Synagogues Revealed 2, edited by Lee I. Levine, Zeev Weiss, and Uzi Leibner, 48–65. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.
Boustan, Ra’anan. 2023. “National Borders and the Contours of Historical Knowledge”. Studies in Late Antiquity 7 (1): 1–4.
Boustan, Ra’anan, and Karen Britt. 2023. “מגלה ספונות וספינים: פסיפסי הסיטרה הצפונית בבית הכנסת בחוקוק”. Qadmoniot: A Journal for the Antiquities of Eretz-Israel and Bible Lands, no. 166: 31-39.
Boustan, Ra’anan, and Karen Britt. 2023. “Jerusalem in Galilee: Urban Architecture and Communal Belonging in a Mosaic from a Rural Synagogue”. In Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean: Essays in Honor of Jodi Magness, edited by Dennis Mizzi, Tine Rassalle, and Matthew Grey, 581–620. Leiden: Brill.
Boustan, Ra’anan, and Karen Britt. 2023. “War and Peace in the Elephant Mosaic from Huqoq: Synagogue Art, Classical Historiography, and Roman Imperial Monuments”. Mediterranean Studies 31 (2): 139–79.

2022

Boustan, Ra’anan. 2022. “Everyday Life in Extremis”. Studies in Late Antiquity 6 (3): 385–90.
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Boustan, Ra’anan. 2022. “On Shaky Ground: Elites and Their Discontents”. Studies in Late Antiquity 6 (1): 1–4.
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2021

Boustan, Raʿanan, Karen Britt, Jodi Magness, and others. 2021. “‘The Huqoq Excavations: Interim Report on the 2011–2017 Seasons’ (Arabic)”. Cornerstone 7: 34–52.
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Boustan, Raʿanan. 2021. “Entanglements of Religion and Empire”. Studies in Late Antiquity 5 (3): 287–91.
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Boustan, Raʿanan. 2021. “Centers and Peripheries?”. Studies in Late Antiquity 5 (1): 1–5.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, and Karen Britt. 2021. “Scenes in Stone: Newly Discovered Biblical Mosaics from the North Aisle in the Huqoq Synagogue”. Studies in Late Antiquity 5 (4): 509–79. Publisher’s Version: Scenes in Stone: Newly Discovered Biblical Mosaics from the North Aisle in the Huqoq Synagogue.
Boustan, Raʿanan. 2021. “Afterword: Rabbinization and the Persistence of Diversity in Jewish Culture in Late Antiquity”. In Diversity and Rabbinization: Jewish Texts and Societies Between 400 and 1000 C.E., edited by Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld, and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, 286–99. Cambridge: OpenEdition Books.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, and Karen Britt. 2021. “Historical Scenes in Mosaics from Late Roman Syria and Palestine: Building on the Seleucid Past in Late Antiquity”. Journal of Late Antiquity 14 (2): 335–74. Publisher’s Version: Historical Scenes in Mosaics from Late Roman Syria and Palestine: Building on the Seleucid Past in Late Antiquity.

2020

Boustan, Raʿanan, Karen Britt, Jodi Magness, and others. 2020. “Huqoq 2019: Preliminary Report (English and Hebrew)”. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel. Publisher’s Version: Huqoq 2019: Preliminary Report (English and Hebrew).
Boustan, Raʻanan, Karen Britt, Jodi Magness, and others. 2020. “Mehr Als Nur Mosaike: Die Antike Synagoge in Huqoq Im Israelischen Galiläa”. Antike Welt: Zeitschrift für Archäologie Und Kulturgeschichte 51 (1): 74–83. Publisher’s Version: Mehr als nur Mosaike: Die antike Synagoge in Huqoq im Israelischen Galiläa.

2019

Boustan, Raʿanan, and Karen Britt. 2019. “Artistic Influences in Synagogue Mosaics: Putting the Huqoq Synagogue in Context”. Biblical Archaeology Review 45.3: 39–45. Publisher’s version: Artistic Influences in Synagogue Mosaics: Putting the Huqoq Synagogue in Context.
Boustan, Raʿanan, Karen Britt, Jodi Magness, and others. 2019. “Inside the Huqoq Synagogue”. Biblical Archaeology Review 45.3: 24–38. Publisher’s Version: Inside the Huqoq Synagogue.
Boustan, Raʻanan. 2019. “Martyr, Martyrdom—Rabbinic Judaism”. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, edited by Hans-Josef Klauck et al., 17:1071–74. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
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Boustan, Raʿanan. 2019. “3 Enoch”. In The Textual History of the Bible, Vol. 2B: The Deuterocanonical Scriptures, edited by Frank Feder and Matthias Henze, 379–85. Leiden: Brill. Publisher’s Version: 3 Enoch.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, Karen Britt, Jodi Magness, and others. 2019. “Huqoq 2018: Preliminary Report (English and Hebrew)”. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel . Publisher’s version: Huqoq 2018: Preliminary Report (English and Hebrew).

2018

Boustan, Raʻanan. 2018. “Heikhalot Literature”. In The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, edited by Oliver Nicholson, 704–5. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online Access: Heikhalot literature.
Boustan, Raʻanan. 2018. “Yohanan Ben Nappaha”. In The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, edited by Oliver Nicholson, 1603. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online Access: Yohanan ben Nappaha.
Boustan, Raʿanan, Karen Britt, Jodi Magness, and others. 2018. “The Huqoq Excavation Project: 2014–2017 Interim Report”. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 380: 61–131.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, Karen Britt, Jodi Magness, and others. 2018. “Bible Stories in the Huqoq Synagogue Mosaic Floor: Interim Report on the 2011–2017 Seasons (Hebrew)”. Qadmoniot 156: 66–83.
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2017

Boustan, Ra’anan, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, Emily Albu, Susanna Elm, Michele Salzman, and Edward Watts. 2017. “Why Does the World Need a New Journal in Late Antiquity”. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 (1): 1–3.
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Boustan, Raʻanan. 2017. “Review of Rachel Neis, The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)”. Images 10: 140–42.
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Boustan, Raʻanan, and Joseph E. Sanzo. 2017. “Christian Magicians, Jewish Magic, and the Shared Magical Culture of Late Antiquity”. Harvard Theological Review 110 (2): 217–40.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, and Karen Britt. 2017. The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq: Official Publication and Initial Interpretations. Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology (Supplementary Series 106).

2016

Boustan, Ra’anan, and Kimberly Stratton. 2016. “Children and Violence in Jewish and Christian Traditions”. Journal of Religion and Violence 4 (3): 305–16.
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2015

Boustan, Raʻanan. 2015. “Metatron”. In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, edited by Eric Orlin, Lisbeth Fried, Jennifer Wright Knust, Michael Satlow, and Michael Pregill, 594–95. New York: Routledge.
Boustan, Raʻanan. 2015. “Jewish Veneration of the ‘Special Dead’ in Late Antiquity and Beyond”. In Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond, edited by Cynthia Hahn and Holger Klein, 61–81. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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Boustan, Raʿanan. 2015. “Secrets Without Mystery: Esotericism in Early Jewish Mysticism”. Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 15 (1): 10–15. Online Access: Secrets without Mystery: Esotericism in Early Jewish Mysticism.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, and Michael Beshay. 2015. “Sealing the Demons, Once and For All: The Ring of Solomon, the Cross of Christ, and the Power of Biblical Kingship”. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 16: 99–129.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, Jacco Dieleman, and Joseph E. Sanzo. 2015. “Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World: Introduction”. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 16: 3-9. Online Access: Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World: Introduction.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, Jacco Dieleman, and Joseph E. Sano, eds. 2015. “Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World”. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 16: 3–125.
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2014

Boustan, Raʿanan. 2014. “Jews and Christians: Embracing the Wide Spectrum”. Ancient Jew Review. Online Access: Jews and Christians: Embracing the Wide Spectrum.
Boustan, Raʿanan, and Henry Gruber. 2014. “Review of Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, Yehudah Cohn, and Fergus Millar, eds., Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity, 135–700 C.E. (Oxford: Oxford University Press The British Academy, 2012)”. Journal of Late Antiquity 7 (2): 360–62. Online Access: Review of Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, Yehudah Cohn, and Fergus Millar, eds., Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity, 135–700 C.E. (Oxford: Oxford University Press/The British Academy, 2012).
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Boustan, Raʿanan. 2014. “Review of Steven D. Fraade, Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages (Leiden: Brill, 2011)”. AJS Review 38 (2): 358–60. Online Access: Review of Steven D. Fraade, Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
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Boustan, Raʿanan, and Patrick G. McCullough. 2014. “Apocalyptic Literature and the Study of Early Jewish Mysticism”. In The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature, edited by John J. Collins, 85–103. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online Access: Apocalyptic Literature and the Study of Early Jewish Mysticism.
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Boustan, Ra’anan, and Joseph E. Sanzo. 2014. “Mediterranean Jews in a Christianizing Empire”. In The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila, edited by Michael Maas, 360–76. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, and Adam H. Becker. 2014. “Sacred Objects at the Crossroads of Religious Traditions: Introduction”. Material Religion 10 (4): 408–10. Online Access: Sacred Objects at the Crossroads of Religious Traditions: Introduction.
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Boustan, Raʿanan, and Adam H. Becker, eds. 2014. “Matter of Contention: Sacred Objects at the Crossroads of Religious Traditions”. Material Religion 10 (4): 408–525. Online Access: Matter of Contention: Sacred Objects at the Crossroads of Religious Traditions.
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