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Publications
Books:
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Not Wholly Free: The Concept of Manumission and the
Status of Manumitted Slaves in the Ancient Greek World, Brill Academic
Publishers, Mnemosyne-Supplementa 266, Leiden, 2005.
Articles in Journals (Refereed):
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Request and Supplication: Application by foreigners to
the Athenian Polis‟, Mnemosyne 51 (1998), 554-573.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „The Xenodokoi of Thessaly‟, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie
und Epigarphik 130 (2000), 109-120.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Did Patronage Exist in Classical Athens?‟, L’Antiquité
Classique 69 (2000), 65-80.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Ploutos, the God of the Oligarchs‟, Scripta Classica
Israelica 21 (2002), 27-44.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Settlers and Dispossessed in the Athenian Empire‟,
Mnemosyne 57 (2004), 325-45.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „The Proxenoi of Western Greece‟, Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik 147 (2004), 93–106.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „The Phrase xenikēi lysei in Manumission Inscriptions‟,
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 153 (2005), 108-112.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Freed Slaves, the State and Social Control in Ancient
Greece‟, European Review of History: Revue europeen d'histoire 16.3 (2009), 303318.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz. “Greek Slavery.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online:
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Articles and Chapters in Books (Refereed):
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Lies Resembling Truth: On the Beginnings of Greek
Historiography‟, in: G. Herman and I. Shatzman (eds.), Greeks Between East and
West. Essays in Memory of D. Asheri, The Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, Jerusalem 2007, 45-74.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „The Guardian of the Land: The Areopagos Council as a
Symbol of Stability‟, in: Gabriel Herman (ed.), Stability and Crisis in the Athenian
Democracy, Historia Einzelschrift 220, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011, 103126.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Slaves and Role Reversal in Ancient Greek Cults‟.
Chapter 3 in S. Hodkinson and D. Geary (eds.), Slaves and Religions in GraecoRoman Antiquity and Modern Brazil, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2012, 96132.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Greek and Roman terminologies of slavery‟, chapter 23
in S. Hodkinson, M. Kleijwegt and K. Vlassopoulos (eds.), Oxford Handbook of
Greek and Roman Slaveries, Oxford University Press (accepted for publication).
Reviews:
On Leonard Schumacher, Stellung des sklaven im Sakralrecht (Forschungen zur
antiken Sklaverei, Beiheft 3, VI; Corpus d. röm. Rechtsq. Teil VI), Stuttgart: Franz
Steiner Verlag, 2006, in: Scripta Classica Israelica XXVII (2008), 133-135.
On D. Brendan Nagle, The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle’s Polis.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, in: The Classical Bulletin 84.1
(2009), 132-134.
„The Polis‟, on M.H. Hansen, The Return of the Polis: the Use and Meanings of the
Word Polis in Archaic and Classical Sources. (Historia Einzelschriften 198.)
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007, in: The Classical Review Vol. 59, no. 1
(2009), 179-81.
Articles in Encyclopedias and Bibliographies:
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Xendokoi‟, in: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History,
Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (accepted for publication).
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Prostates‟, in: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History,
Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (accepted for publication).
Rachel
Zelnick-Abramovitz,
„Manumission (Greek and Roman)‟,
in:
The
Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (accepted for
publication).
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Xenoi‟, in: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, WileyBlackwell Publishers (accepted for publication).
Hebrew Publications:
Books:
Benjamin Shimron and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Herodotus’ Histories, translated
from the Greek with an Introduction and notes, Tel-Aviv: Dyonon-Papyrus, 1998.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, The Athenian Democracy, Ra‟anana: The Open
University of Israel, 2004.
Articles (Refereed):
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Patrios Politeia – Image and Reality in Classical
Athens‟, in: R. Cohen and J. Mali (eds.), Literature and History, Jerusalem, The
Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1999, 63-75.
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, „Yelid Bayit and Miknat Kessef: Categories of Slaves in
the Bible and in Greek and Roman Texts‟, Textus: Studies of the Hebrew
University Bible Project XXV (2010), 123-39.
Review Articles:
„Poetry Shattered‟, on A. Shabthai‟s Hebrew translation of Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae, in: Katharsis 1 (2004), 87-114.
„Democracy Now!‟, on E. David, Classical Democracy: Emergence, Principles and
Pitfalls in Athens, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2003, in:
Katharsis 2 (2004), 18-30.
Textbooks:
(With B. Shimron) „Herodotus and the Persian Wars‟, Unit 3, Classical Greece, TelAviv: The Open University, 1979.
„The Rise of Rome to Hegemony in the Mediterranean‟, Unit 1, Judea and Rome, TelAviv: The Open University, 1981.
(With B. Shimron) „Alexander and the Conquest of the East‟, Unit 3, The History of
the Hellenistic Period, Tel-Aviv: The Open University, 1989.
(With B. Shimron) „The Diadochs‟, Unit 4, The History of the Hellenistic Period, TelAviv: The Open University, 1989.
(With B. Shimron) „The Hellenistic Kingdoms: Political History‟, Unit 5, The History
of the Hellenistic Period, Tel-Aviv: The Open University, 1990.
„The Roman Conquest of Greece and the East‟, Unit 12, The History of the Hellenistic
Period, Tel-Aviv: The Open University, 1992.
„The Punic Wars and the Conquest of the Western Mediterranean‟, Unit 2, Rome:
Imperialism and Empire, Tel-Aviv: The Open University, 2002.
„Rome and the Hellenistic East‟, Unit 3, Rome: Imperialism and Empire, The TelAviv: Open University, 2002.
„The Roman Politics in the Second Century‟, Unit 5, Rome: Imperialism and Empire,
Tel-Aviv: The Open University, 2002.
„The Roman Revolution I: From the Gracchi to Sulla‟, Unit 6, Rome: Imperialism and
Empire, Tel-Aviv: The Open University, 2002.
„The Roman Revolution II: Pompey and Caesar‟, Unit 7, Rome: Imperialism and
Empire, Tel-Aviv: The Open University, 2002.
„The Fall of the Republic‟, Unit 8, Rome: Imperialism and Empire, Tel-Aviv: The
Open University, 2003.
„Augustus and the Principate‟, Unit 9, Rome: Imperialism and Empire, Tel-Aviv: The
Open University, 2003.
Scientific Editing:
Aristotle, Politics Books I - III, translate from the Greek by Nurit Karshon, scientific
editor: Rachel Zelnick-A bramovitz, Tel-Aviv: Resling 2009.