Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2009. “Ascension—Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism”. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, edited by Hans-Josef Klauck, 2:889–90. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Online Access: Ascension—Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2009. “Heaven—Rabbinic Judaism”. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, edited by Hans-Josef Klauck, 12:553–55. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Online Access: Heaven—Rabbinic Judaism.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2010. “R. Yohanan Ben Zakkai”. In The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, edited by John J. Collins and Dan Harlow, 1355–56. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2010. “R. Ishmael”. In The Dictionary of Early Judaism, edited by John J. Collins and Dan Harlow, 778–79. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2011. “Second Temple”. In The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, edited by Judith Baskin, 590–91. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2012. “Shi‘ur Qomah (Jewish Mystical Texts)”. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, edited by Roger S. Bagnall, 6227–8. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Online Access: Shi‘ur Qomah (Jewish mystical texts).

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2012. “Hekhalot/Merkabah/Literature”. In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, edited by Roger S. Bagnall, 3099–101. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Online Access: Hekhalot/Merkabah literature.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2006. “The Relics of Rabbi Ishmael in The Story of the Ten Martyrs”. Jewish Understandings of the Other: An Annotated Sourcebook, Boston College Center for Jewish–Christian Learning . Online Access: The Relics of Rabbi Ishmael in The Story of the Ten Martyrs.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2003. “Review of Erich S. Gruen, Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002)”. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 5: 379–83.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2005. “Review of Vita Daphna Arbel, Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003)”. Journal of the American Oriental Society 125 (1): 123–26. Online Access: Review of Vita Daphna Arbel, Beholders of Divine Secrets: Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003).

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2006. “Review of Daniel Boyarin, Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)”. The Jewish Quarterly Review 96 (3): 441–46. Online Access: Review of Daniel Boyarin, Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2007. “Review of Andreas Lehnardt, Qaddish: Untersuchungen Zur Entstehung Und Rezeption Eines Rabbinischen Gebetes (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002)”. The Jewish Quarterly Review 97 (2): 65–69. Online Access: Review of Andreas Lehnardt, Qaddish: Untersuchungen zur Entstehung und Rezeption eines rabbinischen Gebetes (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002).

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2007. “Review of Pieter W. Van Der Horst,Het Vroege Jodendom Van A Tot Z: Een Kleine Encyclopedie over De Eerste Duizend Jaar (ca. 350 v.Chr.–650 n.Chr.) (Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2006)”. Journal for the Study of Judaism 38 (3): 436–8. Online Access: Review of Pieter W. van der Horst,Het vroege jodendom van A tot Z: Een kleine encyclopedie over de eerste duizend jaar (ca. 350 v.Chr.–650 n.Chr.) (Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2006).

Boustan, Raʻanan S., and Annette Yoshiko Reed. 2004. “Introduction: ‘In Heaven As It Is on Earth’”. In Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions, edited by Ra’anan S. Boustan and Annette Yoshiko Reed, 1–15. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2004. “Angels in the Architecture: Temple Art and the Poetics of Praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice”. In Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions, edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan and Annette Yoshiko Reed, 195–212. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2004. “Angels in the Architecture: Temple Art and the Poetics of Praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice”. In Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions, edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan and Annette Yoshiko Reed, 195–212. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2006. “Competing Attitudes Toward Rabbi Ishmael’s Priestly Genealogy in Heikhalot Literature”. In Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism, edited by April DeConick, 127–41. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2008. “The Spoils of the Jerusalem Temple at Rome and Constantinople: Jewish Counter-Geography in a Christianizing Empire”. In Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World, edited by Gregg Gardner and Kevin Osterloh, 327–72. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Boustan, Raʻanan S., Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow. 2011. “Introduction: Anthropology, History, and the Remaking of Jewish Studies”. In Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition, edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow, 1–28. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Boustan, Raʻanan S., Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow. 2011. “Introduction: Anthropology, History, and the Remaking of Jewish Studies”. In Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition, edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow, 1–28. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2011. “The Dislocation of the Temple Vessels: Mobile Sanctity and Rabbinic Rhetorics of Space”. In Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition, edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow, 135–46. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2011. “The Dislocation of the Temple Vessels: Mobile Sanctity and Rabbinic Rhetorics of Space”. In Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition, edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow, 135–46. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Boustan, Ra’anan S., Reimund Leicht, Klaus Hermann, Annette Yoshiko Reed, and Giuseppe Veltri. 2013. “Introduction: Imre Shefer”. In Envisioning Judaism: Studies in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion His 70th Birthday, edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Klaus Hermann, Reimund Leicht, Annette Yoshiko Reed, and Giuseppe Veltri, 1:XVII–XXVIII. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Boustan, Raʻanan S. 2007. “The Study of Heikhalot Literature—Between Religious Experience and Textual Artifact”. Currents in Biblical Research 6 (1): 130–60. Online Access: The Study of Heikhalot Literature—Between Religious Experience and Textual Artifact.

Boustan, Raʻanan S., and Annette Yoshiko Reed. 2008. “Introduction to Theme-Issue: Blood and the Boundaries of Jewish and Christian Identities in Late Antiquity”. Henoch 30 (2): 231–42.

Boustan, Raʻanan S., Alex P. Jassen, and Calvin J. Roetzel. 2009. “Introduction: Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practice in Early Judaism and Christianity”. Biblical Interpretation 17 (1–2): 1–11. Online Access: Introduction: Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practice in Early Judaism and Christianity.

Boustan, Raʻanan S., Alex P. Jassen, and Calvin Roetzel, eds. 2010. Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practice in Early Judaism and Christianity (Reprint With New Preface, Forward, and Indices of Special Issue of Biblical Interpretation 17.1–2 (2009): 1–264). Leiden: Brill.

Boustan, Raʻanan S., Oren Kosansky, and Marina Rustow, eds. 2011. Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Boustan, Raʻanan S., Martha Himmelfarb, and Peter Schäfer, eds. 2013. Hekhalot Literature in Context: Between Byzantium and Babylonia. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (Text and Studies in Ancient Judaism 153).