See my academia.edu page for pdfs to scholarly publications
Education
PhD Princeton University, Religion August, 2014
MA University of Michigan, Judaic Studies December, 2008
BA Rollins College, Classical Studies with Honors May 2005
Publications
Books
On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.
Co-edited with Alexander Koçar, Placing Ancient Texts: the Rhetorical and Ritual Use of Space. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.
Books in Progress
Angels in the Religions of Late Antiquity. Cambridge Elements of Religion in Late Antiquity. Under contract with Cambridge University Press.
With Friedrich Reiterer and Stephen Burge. Key Concepts in Interreligious Dialogue: Spiritual Beings. Under contract with DeGruyter Press.
With Candida Moss, A Bestiary of the Bible. Under contract with Princeton University Press.
Refereed Journal Articles
“Critical Fabulation and the Foundations of Classical Judaism.” Studies in Late Antiquity 7.1 (Spring 2023): 29–74.
“Reimagining the Gender and Class Dynamics of Premodern Scribal Composition.” Journal of Ancient Judaism 14 (2023): 321–354.
“Gender and the Angels in Late Antique Judaism.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 29.1 (2022): 1–21.
“Analogies of Violence in Rabbinic literature.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 34:2 (2018): 59–74.
With Sarit Kattan-Gribetz, “The Daughters of Israel: An Analysis of the Term in Late Ancient Jewish Sources.” Jewish Quarterly Review 108.1 (2018): 1–27.
Book Chapters
“A Woman of Valor in the Late Antique Synagogue: Yannai’s Qedushta to Leviticus 15:25.” Above, Below, Before, and After: Studies on Judaism and Christianity in Dialogue with Martha Himmelfarb. Edited by R. Boustan, D. Frankfurter, and A. Y. Reed. TSAJ. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.
With Rena Lauer, “Women’s Movements in the Pre-Modern Era.” The Routledge Global History of Feminism. Edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Nova Robinson. Routledge, 2022.
“Jewish Towns and Neighborhoods.” The Blackwell Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism. Edited by Naomi Koltun-Fromm and Gwynn Kessler. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
“The Spatial and Social Dynamics of Jewish Babylonian Incantations.” Pages 243–269 in Placing Ancient Texts: the Rhetorical and Ritual Use of Space. Edited by Mika Ahuvia and Alexander Koçar. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.
“Darkness Upon the Abyss: Depicting Cosmogony in Late Antiquity.” Pages 255–270 in In the Beginning: Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity. Edited by Lance Jenott and Sarit Kattan-Gribetz. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.
With John Gager, “Some Notes on Jesus and his Parents: From the New Testament Gospels to the Toledot Yeshu.” Pages 997–1019 in Envisioning Judaism: Studies in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Edited by Ra’anan Boustan et al. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Mysticism” and “Liturgy.” The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. Vol. 2: Emerging Judaism, 332 BCE–600 CE. Edited by Carol Bakhos. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.
“Mediator,” “Memra,” “Metatron,” “Michael.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Edited by Barry Walfish. De Gruyter, 2020.
“Angelology.” Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. New York: Routledge, 2016.
“Popular Religion and Magic” and “Sexual Violence in Early Judaism,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies. Edited by Julia O’Brien. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Book Reviews
Review of Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought: Becoming Angels and Demons by M. David Litwa. Review of Biblical Literature. April 26, 2025. https://www.sblcentral.org/home/bookDetails/1001377
Review of When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species by Rafael Rachel Neis. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 18 (2024): open access. https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JSRNC/issue/view/2623
Review of The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible by Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 86.3 (July 2024): 608–610.
Review of The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews by Ross Shephard Kraemer. AJS Review 45:1 (2021): 172–174.
Review of The Myth of Rebellious Angels: Studies in Second Temple Judaism and New Testament Texts by Loren T. Stuckenbruck. Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.4 (2020): 1005–1007.
Review of Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander and Beth Berkowitz. Ancient Jew Review. June 15, 2020.
Review of Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity by Karen Stern. AJS Review 43:1 (2019): 199–201.
Review of Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the book of Zerubbabel by Martha Himmelfarb. Studies in Late Antiquity 1.3 (Summer 2017): 311–314.
Review of The Dynasty of the Jewish Patriarchs by Albert Appelbaum. Journal of Early Christian Studies 24.2 (Summer 2016): 293–294.
Mika Ahuvia, Ph.D. 