Shaye J D Cohen

Biographic Data

ID957521
NAMEShaye J D Cohen
GIVEN NAMESShaye J D
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN S J D
AFFILIATIONSJewish Theological Seminary
ORCID0000-0003-0255-7534
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Parity between men and women? Reflections on the circumcision of men and the circumcision of women

    Open AccessShaye J D CohenARTICLEGlobal Discourse2022Cited by: 2References: 2

    The article discusses the strong and enduring connection between male circumcision and the Jewishness of men. However, paradoxically, Jewish women are Jews in spite of the absence of circumcision or any other bodily marker. The article also discusses the parity between male and female circumcision, and its implications

  • Some Thoughts on Judaism and Hellenism by Martin Hengel

    Shaye J D CohenARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2022References: 3

    This short note offers some thoughts on Martin Hengel’s construct of the struggle between the “reformers” or Hellenists and those faithful to the law in Jerusalem of the 160s BCE

  • Diasporas in Antiquity

    Shaye J D Cohen, ERNEST S FRERICHSBOOKDiasporas in Antiquity2020

  • “Those Who Say They Are Jews and Are Not”: How Do You Know a Jew in Antiquity When You See One?

    Shaye J D CohenCHAPTERDiasporas in Antiquity2020

  • Diasporas in Antiquity

    Shaye J D Cohen, ERNEST S FRERICHSBOOKDiasporas in Antiquity2020

    This volume serves as a contribution to the study of diasporas in antiquity and a stimulus to further investigations of other ancient diasporas and their effect. It is a culmination of discussions that took place during the conference, Diasporas in Antiquity, held on the 30th of April, 1992

  • The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other by Peter Schäfer

    Open AccessShaye J D CohenARTICLETheology Today2013

  • The Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism: Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism

    Shaye J D Cohen, Shaye Cohen et al.BOOKThe Significance of Yavneh and…2010

    This volume collects thirty essays by Shaye J.D. Cohen. First published between 1980 and 2006, these essays deal with a wide variety of themes and texts: Jewish Hellenism; Josephus; the Synagogue; Conversion to Judaism; Blood and Impurity; the boundary between Judaism and Christianity. What unites them is their philological orientation. Many of these essays are close studies of obscure passages in Jewish and Christian texts. The essays are united…

  • Sabbath Law and Mishnah Shabbat in Origen De Principiis

    Shaye J D CohenARTICLEJewish Studies Quarterly2010

    »Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495

  • Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America

    Open AccessShaye J D CohenARTICLEAJS Review The Journal of the…2007

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  • Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism

    Shaye J D CohenBOOKWhy Aren't Jewish Women…2006

    Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide range of Jewish sources—from the Bible and the Talmud to the legal and philosophical writings of the Middle Ages to Enlightenment thinkers and modern scholars—Shaye J. D. Cohen considers the varied …

  • Judaism without Circumcision and “Judaism” without “Circumcision” in Ignatius

    Shaye J D CohenARTICLEHarvard Theological Review2002

    The seven letters written by Ignatius in the early decades of the second century C.E. offer a fascinating if enigmatic glimpse at the internal life of the churches of western Asia Minor.Helpful introductions to Ignatius are P. Nautin, “Ignatius of Antioch,” in Encyclopedia of the Early Church (ed. Angelo Di Berardino; trans. A. Walford; 2 vols.; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) 1.404–5, and Christine Trevett, A Study of Ignatius of Antioc…

  • The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties

    Erich S Gruen, Shaye J D CohenARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2002

  • Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties

    Shaye J Cohen, Shaye J D CohenBOOKBeginnings of Jewishness1999

    In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize Jewishness through the centuries first took shape in the second century B.C.E. This brilliantly argued, accessible book unravels one of the most comple…

  • Greek Jewish Texts from the Cairo Genizah

    Shaye J D Cohen, Nicholas De Lange et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1998

  • Why Aren’t Jewish Women Circumcised

    Open AccessShaye J D CohenARTICLEGender & History1997Cited by: 3

    From Hellenistic to modern times, in the eyes of Jews and non‐Jews alike, circumcision is a sign that marks the boundary between Jews and non‐Jews. Jews are circumcised, gentiles are not. What, then, of Jewish women? Why are they not marked with a bodily sign attesting to their place within the covenant? Cohen argues that the Jews of antiquity seem not to have been bothered by this question probably because the fundamental Otherness of women was …

  • The Jewish Family in Antiquity

    David Jonathan Gilner, Shaye J D CohenARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1997

  • "Prosélytisme juif"? Histoire d'une erreur

    Shaye J D Cohen, Édouard Will et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1996

  • Are There Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels

    Shaye J D Cohen, Jacob NeusnerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1996

    Jacob Neusner's Are there really tannaitic parallels to the Gospels ? (South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism. Atlanta : Scholars Press, 1993) pretends to be a scholarly refutation of Morton Smith's Tannaitic parallels to the Gospels (1951), but is in reality abusive polemic. It is Neusner's obituary for Smith, bringing closure to an intense but troubled relationship. Because of its careless scholarship and vindictive tone, the book shou…

  • Studies in the Cult of Yahweh: Volume 1. Studies in Historical Method, Ancient Israel, Ancient Judaism

    Morton Smith, Shaye J D CohenBOOKStudies in the Cult of Yahweh1995

  • Flavius Josephus: Death of an Emperor

    Shaye J D Cohen, T P WisemanARTICLEThe Classical World1995

  • Josephus' Description of the Essenes Illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls

    Shaye J D Cohen, Todd S BeallARTICLEThe Classical World1990

  • The Rabbinic Conversion Ceremony

    Shaye J D CohenARTICLEJournal of Jewish Studies1990Cited by: 2

  • Crossing the Boundary and Becoming a Jew

    Open AccessShaye J D CohenARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1989

    Who was a Jew in antiquity? How was “Jewishness” defined? How did a non-Jew become a Jew, and how did a Jew become a non-Jew? In their minds and actions the Jews erected a boundary between themselves and the rest of humanity, the gentiles, but the boundary was always crossable and not always clearly marked. A gentile might associate with Jews and observe Jewish practices, or might “convert” to Judaism and become a proselyte. A Jew might avoid con…

  • On Pagans, Jews, and Christians

    Shaye J D Cohen, Arnaldo MomiglianoARTICLEThe Classical World1989

    Arnaldo Momigliano is the greatest contemporary scholar of the history and historiography of classical civilization. M.I. Finley has written in the New Statesman that there is no one alive today who knows the subject as he does. On Pagans, Jews, and Christians is an important addition to his masterly work, bringing together nineteen essays written in the past five years from sources such as The New York Review of Books, The American Scholar, and …

  • Jewish Settlement in Judea after the Bar-Kochba War until the Arab Conquest 135 C. E.-640 C. E

    Shaye J D Cohen, Joshua SchwartzARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1988