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  1. The Scope of Scriptural Passages in Tefillin in Light of a Comprehensive Paleographic Analysis of the Tefillin from the Judean Desert

    Article • May 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  2. Toward Identifying Proto-Judaic Cultural Features in Ancient Israel and Judea

    Article • Journal of Ancient Judaism, September 2024, Brill Deutschland GmbH

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  3. Black surfaces on ancient leather tefillin cases and straps from the Judean Desert: Macroscopic, microscopic and spectroscopic analyses

    Article • PLOS One, June 2024, PLOS

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  4. The Jewish Coins at Dura-Europos

    Article • Journal of Ancient Judaism, December 2021, Brill Deutschland GmbH

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  5. Two Types of Four-Compartment Tefillin Cases from the Judean Desert Caves

    Article • Dead Sea Discoveries, July 2021, Brill

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  6. Ritual Purity in Daily Life after 70 CE: The Chalk Vessel Assemblage from Shuʿafat as a Test Case

    Article • Journal for the Study of Judaism, December 2020, Brill

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  7. Trojan Horses: The Counterintuitive Use of Dinah, Helen, and Goliath in Joseph and Aseneth

    Article • Journal for the Study of Judaism, December 2020, Brill

    Dr. Yonatan Adler, Michael Kochenash

  8. The Impurity of Stone Vessels in 11QTa and CD in Light of the Chalk Vessel Finds at Kh. Qumran

    Article • Dead Sea Discoveries, January 2020, Brill

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  9. Remains of Tefillin from Naḥal Ṣeʾelim (Wadi Seiyal): A Leather Case and Two Inscribed Fragments (34Se 1 A–B)

    Article • Dead Sea Discoveries, March 2017, Brill

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  10. 10 The Distribution of Tefillin Finds among the Judean Desert Caves

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  11. Stuart S. Miller. At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds: Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, and Ritual Purity among the Jews of Roman Galilee. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. 342 pp.

    Article • AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, November 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  12. The myth of the ̓ôṣār in Second Temple-period ritual baths: an anachronistic interpretation of a modern-era innovation

    Article • Journal of Jewish Studies, October 2014, Journal of Jewish Studies

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  13. Jewish ritual baths in Judaea-Palaestina. RONNY REICH, MIQWA'OT (JEWISH RITUAL BATHS) IN THE SECOND TEMPLE, MISHNAIC AND TALMUDIC PERIODS (Yad Ben-Zvi and Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem 2013). Pp. 352, figs. 289. ISBN 978-965-217-35...

    Article • Journal of Roman Archaeology, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  14. Ritual Baths Adjacent to Tombs: An Analysis of the Archaeological Evidence in Light of the Halakhic Sources

    Article • Journal for the Study of Judaism, January 2009, Brill

    Dr. Yonatan Adler

  15. Second Temple Period Ritual Baths Adjacent to Agricultural Installations: The Archaeological Evidence in Light of the Halakhic Sources

    Article • Journal of Jewish Studies, April 2008, Journal of Jewish Studies

    Dr. Yonatan Adler