Research

PUBLICATIONS/TALKS

Current book projects

Edited volume: On Jewish Multilingualism in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (with L. V. Rutgers; in preparation).

Edited volume: Ancient and Medieval Religious Homelands: Essays on Space, Place, and Religion (with L. V. Rutgers and G. Langer; in preparation).

Monographs
  1. Cordoni. C. (2024) Reconfiguring the land of Israel: A Rabbinic Projekt. The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 76. Leiden: Brill  (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696761).
  2. Cordoni, C. (2018) Seder Eliyahu: A Narratological Reading. Studia Judaica 100. Berlin: De Gruyter (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110531879).
  3. Cordoni, C. (2014) Barlaam und Josaphat in der europäischen Literatur des Mittelalters: Darstellung der Stofftraditionen, Bibliographie, Studien. Berlin: De Gruyter (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110341898).
    Edited volumes
    1. llan, T., R. Nikolsky, L. Miralles Maciá, eds. (2021) Rabbinische Literatur. German edition supervised by C. Cordoni. Die Bibel und die Frauen 4.1. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
    2. Cordoni, C., and G. Langer, eds. (2016) “Let the Wise Listen and Add to Their Learning” (Prov 1:5): Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. Berlin: De Gruyter (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435283).
    3. Meyer, M., and C. Cordoni, eds. (2015) Barlaam und Josaphat: Neue Perspektiven auf ein europäisches Phänomen. Berlin: De Gruyter (DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/crm.13772).
    4. Langer, G., and C. Cordoni, eds. (2014) Narratology, Hermeneutics, and Midrash: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Narratives from the Late Antiquity through to Modern Times. Göttingen: V&R unipress (DOI: https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737003087).
    Articles in journals

    1. Cordoni, C. (forthcoming spring 2025) “‘Send men to spy out the land’ (Num 13:2): Rabbinic Readings of the Spies’ Episode”. Review of Rabbinic Judaism.

    2. Cordoni, C. (forthcoming spring 2025) “‘Have you noticed My servant Job?’ (Job 1:8): On the Gentile, the Patient, the Righteous and the Protester Job in premodern Jewish tradition”. European Journal of Jewish Studies.

    3. Cordoni, C. (2022) “On Seder Eliyahu, Wisdom, and Job“. Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge 44: 1–25.

    4. Cordoni, C. (2020) “For they did not change their language‘ (MekhY Pischa 5): On Early Medieval Literary Rehebraicisation of Jewish Culture". Medieval Worlds 11: 165–86 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no11_2020s165).

    5. Cordoni, C. (2018) “Inheriting and Buying a Homeland: The Land of Israel and the Patriarchs“. Journal for the Study of Judaism 49: 551–580 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12493216).

    6. Cordoni, C. (2015) “The Book of the Prince and the Ascetic and the Transmission of Wisdom“. Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes 29:43–70 (DOI:  https://doi.org/10.4000/crm.13772).

    7. Cordoni, C. (2012) “Die weißen Tage oder warum die Frau immer noch als unrein gilt, nachdem ihre Unreinheit aufgehört hat“. Protokolle zur Bibel 21:1–17.

    8. Cordoni, C. (2012) “o favole o parole o istorie: Zum Parabelkorpus in der Barlaam-Legende“. Fabula 52: 207–27.

    9. Cordoni, C. (2010) “Körperkonzeptionen in der Barlaam und Josaphat-Legende“. Hagiographica 17: 301–24.

    10. Cordoni, C. (2009) “The Desert as locus Dei in Barlaam and Josaphat?“ Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales 18: 389–400.

    Book chapters

    1. Cordoni, C. (2023) “If You Keep Silent in This Crisis’ (Esth 4:14): Esther the Medieval Biblical Heroine”. In The Jewish Middle Ages, edited by Carol Bakhos and Gerhard Langer, 35–54. Bible and Women: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History 4.2. Atlanta: SBL Press (https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.1176891.7)

    2. Cordoni, C. (2023) “The Diasporic Topos of the Land of Israel in Rabbinic Parables“. In The Power of Parables: Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables, edited by E. Ottenheijm, M. Poorthuis, and A. Merz, 432–53. Jewish and Christian Perspective Series 39. Leiden: Brill (https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004680043_022 )

    3. Cordoni, C. (2021) “Identity and Sense of Place in Rabbinic Literature: The case of the Land of Israel“. In “Written for Our Discipline and Use”: The Construction of Christian and Jewish Identities in Late Ancient Bible Interpretation, edited by A. Siquans, 123–42. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666522192.123)

    4. Cordoni, C. (2023) “If You Keep Silent in This Crisis’” (Esth 4:14): Esther the Medieval Biblical Heroine”. In The Jewish Middle Ages, edited by Carol Bakhos and Gerhard Langer. Bible and Women: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History 4.2. Atlanta: SBL Press (https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.1176891.7)

    5. Cordoni, C. (2021) “Jewish literary responses to the Arab conquest of the Land of Israel“. In Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquest, edited by J. van den Bent, F. F. van den Eijnde and J. Weststeijn, 214–46. Leiden: Brill ( https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004500648_010)

    6. Cordoni, C. (2020) “Wenn du in diesen Tagen schweigst‘ (Est 4,14): Zur mittelalterlichen biblischen Heldin Ester“. In Die Bibel und die Frauen 4.2: Das jüdische Mittelalter, edited by C. Bakhos and G. Langer, 37–56. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2020.

    7. Cordoni, C. (2016) “Biblical Interpretation in Seder Eliyahu“. In “Let the Wise Listen and Add to Their Learning“ (Prov 1:5): Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday, hg. v. C. Cordoni and G. Langer, 413–30. Berlin: De Gruyter (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435283-023).

    8. Cordoni, C. (2014) “Es geschieht in den besten Familien: Barlaam und Josaphat und das Problem der Familie“. In D’Orient en Occident: Les recueils de fables enchâssées avant les Mille et Une Nuits de Galland (Barlaam et Josaphat, Calila et Dimna, Disciplina clericalis, Roman des Sept Sages), edited by M. Vuagnoux-Uhlig and Y. Foehr-Janssens, 165–90. Turnout: Brepols (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/m.celama-eb.1.101991).

    9. Cordoni, C. (2014) “The emergence of the individual author(-image) in late rabbinic literature“. In Narratology, Hermeneutics, and Midrash: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Narratives from the Late Antiquity through to Modern Times, edited by C. Cordoni and G. Langer, 225–50. Göttingen: V&R unipress (DOI: https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737003087.225).

    Third mission

    1. Cordoni, C. “Hiob, der Gott sucht”. Dein Wort, mein Weg: alltägliche Begegnung mit der Bibel 4/23 (2023): 34–36.

    2. Cordoni, C. “Land of the Sages”. ÖAW: Historical Identity Research Blog, 2021 (https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/read/land-of-the-sages)

    3. Cordoni, C. “Die Unterwelt in der antiken jüdischen Literatur”. In Einmal Unterwelt und zurück: Die Erfindung des Jenseits (Ausstellungskatalog; Residenzgalerie Salzburg 21.7–4.11.2012), edited by Thomas Habersatter, Astrid Ducke and Gabriele Groschner, 69–77. Salzburg: Residenzgalerie Salzburg, 2012.

    Reviews

    1. (2024) Kalman, Jason. The Book of Job in Jewish Life and Thought: Critical Essays. Cincinatti, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 2021. In Journal for the Study of Judaism 55: 124–27 (http://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511385)

    2. (2023) Nikolsky, Ronit and Arnon Atzmon, eds. Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature. The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 70. Leiden: Brill, 2021. In Journal for the Study of Judaism 54: 137–41 (https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511361).

    3. (2021) I. Kalimi. Fighting over the Bible: Jewish Interpretation, Sectarianism and Polemic from Temple to Talmud and Beyond. Leiden: Brill, 2017. In Journal for the Study of Judaism 52: 604–7  (https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511332).

    4. (2021) S. A. Mourad, N. Koltun-Fromm, and B. Der Matossian, eds. Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem. London: Routledge, 2019. In NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 75,2: 284–86 (https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT2021.2.010.CORD).

    5. (2019) K. Spronk and E. van Staalduine-Sulman, eds., Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings. Studia Semitica Neerlandica 69. Brill: Leiden, 2018. In Journal for the Study of Judaism 51: 140–4 (https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12504501).

    6. (2019) Z. Safrai, Seeking out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 B.C.E.–400 C.E.). Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 32. Leiden: Brill, 2018. In Journal for the Study of Judaism 50: 284–9 (https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12502002)

    7. (2019) G. Hasselhoff und M. Strothmann, Hgg., Religio licita? Rom und die Juden. Studia Judaica 84. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. In NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 73,2: 126–8 (https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT2019.2.004.REVI).

    8. (2019) M. Uhlig, Le prince des clercs. Barlaam et Josaphat ou l’art du recueil. Publications romanes et françaises 268, Geneva: Droz, 2018. In Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur 129,1: 108–10 (https://elibrary.steiner-verlag.de/article/99.105010/zfsl201901010801)

    9. (2019) E. Ben-Eliyahu. Identity & Territory: Jewish Perception of Space in Antiquity. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. In Journal for the Study of Judaism 51: 306–8 (https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12511290).

    10. (2016) M. Vidas. Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. In Journal of Ancient Judaism 7: 283–4 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.13109/jaju.2016.7.2.269)

    Talks

    • “A land that flows with milk and honey and devours its inhabitants: On the land of Israel of the Geonic period”. Guest lecture. Princeton (April 2024)

    • “Spatial aspects of Jewish apocalypticism”. Comparative approaches to apocalyptic literature in Judaism, Islam & Christianity c. 600–c. 900. St Andrews, June 2023.*

    • “Rabbinic Exegesis to Psalm 14 and 53”. Commentaries on Psalms: International Workshop. Vienna, June  2023.*

    • “Reimagining the land of the Spies: Rabbinic Readings of Num 13–14". The new Children of Israel International Congress. Newcomers in movement. From Constantine to Muhammad and beyond. Oxford, May 2023.*

    • “On the shoulders of scriptural giants". 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies. August, Jerusalem 2022

    • “Have you noticed My servant Job?’ (Job 1:8): On the Gentile, the Patient, the Righteous and the Protester Job in premodern Jewish tradition“. International Jewish-Christian Bible Week. Münster, July 2022.*

    • “Enduring Job: The use of Job in Pesiqta Rabbati“. NAPH 2022 International conference on Hebrew Language, Literature, and Culture. Austin, June 2022.*

    • “Hebräisch als rabbinische Utopie? Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Identität in ausgewählten Midraschim“. Kolloquium: Sprache – Religion – Grenzen. Spätantike und Frühmittelalter. Verläufe und Vergleiche. Historisches Kolleg, Munich. May 2022.*

    • “The Land of the Future and the Future of the (Home)Land“. Ancient and early medieval religious homelands. Vienna, November 2021.

    • “Rabbinised Job: Revisiting the Job of the Sages“. Lustrumcongress Job in het vroege christendom. Stichting Oudchristelijke Studiën. Driebergen, September 2021.*

    • “Reconfiguring the land of Israel: Habilitationskolloquium”. University of Vienna, September 2021.

    • "La Tierra según los Sabios“. Gastvortrag am Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas (IMHICIHU) – CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 2021.*

    • “Die Literatur des klassischen Judentums: Ein Überblick über das erste Millennium unserer Zeitrechnung“. Guest lecture, Dept. Old Testament Studies, January 2020.*

    • “Reconfiguring Erets Yisrael: A Late Antique and Early Medieval Project”. Guest lecture, Dept. Old Testament Studies, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, January 2020.*

    • “Keeping the Land Jewish: On not selling and buying back land in the Land of Israel“. Seminar zum Thema Land Israel. PThU Amsterdam, December 2019.*

    • “The meaning of (territorial) borders in Rabbinic Judaism“. Mainzer Akademietagung Fragmentierte Welten: Entflechtung in der Vormoderne, March 2019.*

    • “It is Like a King who had a Vineyard: The Land of Israel in Rabbinic Parables“. Konferenz The Power of Parables: Narrating Religion in Late Antiquity. Utrecht, June 2019.*

    • “Identity and Sense of Place in Rabbinic Literature: The Case of the Land of Israel“. Symposium: The Construction of Christian and Jewish Identities in Late Ancient Bible Interpretation. Univ. Vienna, November 2018.*

    • “Individual and Collective Emotions in Esther Rabbah”. Workshop: Social and Personal Emotions. Univ. Groningen, May 2018.*

    • “The land of Israel in Rabbinic Literature: Methodological Questions“. Doctoral colloquium. Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna, January 2018.*

    • “Shaping an ancestral homeland“. XIth EAJS Congress. Krakow, July 2018.

    • “The land of Israel in Late Midrash.“ Jews on the Move: Exploring the Movement of Jews, Objects, Texts, and Ideas in Space and Time (BAJS Conference). Univ. Edinburgh, July 2017.

    • “Know how to make answer to an unbeliever (Av 2:14): The response of Seder Eliyahu to proto-Karaism". Xth Congress of the European Association of Jewish Studies. Paris, July 2014.

    • “Framed Families: On Barlaam and Josaphat, its Apologues and the familia“. Colloque International D’Orient en Occident: les recueils de fables enchâssées avant les Mille et Une Nuits. Univ. Geneva, May 2010.*