Who Am I?

My name is Ory. I teach ancient history in the University of Haifa, Israel. My main fields of interest are Alexandrology; the intersections of myth, religion and history; memetics; and the study of ancient Monotheism.

If you can read Hebrew you are welcome to visit my wiki and my blog. You can also find me under the same name in Facebook.

Publications

Many of the publications are available online on my Academia.edu profile

Book

Amitay, O. 2010. From Alexander to Jesus. Berkeley: University of California Press. 260 pages.

Book Reviews:

Asirvatham, Sulochana R. 2011. The Classical Outlook 88(2): 64-66.
Banchich, Thomas. 2011. The Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 120-22.
Heath, Jane. 2011. The Expository Times 123(1): 42.
Holt, Frank. 2013. The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, DOI:10.1080/10848770.2013.814892
Madigan, Patrick. 2012. The Heythrop Journal 53: 513-14
(Madsen, David W. 2011. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-09-32.html).
Matarese, Chiara. 2013. The Classical Review 63(2): 512-514.
(Müller, Sabine. 2011. Sehepunkte 11 (2011), Nr. 9 (http://www.sehepunkte.de/2011/09/19667.html)

Articles

Amitay, O. 2006. “The Story of Gviha Ben-Psisa and Alexander the Great”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 16: 61-74.
Amitay, O. 2007. “Some Ioudaio-Lakonian Rabbis”, Scripta Classica Israelica 26: 131-134.
Amitay, O. 2007. “Shim‛on ha-Şadiq in his Historical Contexts”, Journal of Jewish Studies 58/2: 236-249.
Amitay, O. 2008. “Why Did Alexander the Great Besiege Tyre?”, Athenaeum 96: 91-102.
Amitay, O. 2010. “The Use and Abuse of the Argumentum E Silentio: the Case of Alexander in Jerusalem”, in Mor, Menahem, Friedrich Vinzenz Reiterer, and Waltraud Winkler. Samaritans: Past and Present : Current Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 59-72.
Amitay, O. 2011. “Procopius of Caesarea and the Girgashite Diaspora”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 20: 257-276.
Amitay, O. 2011 (actually 2013). “Kleodemos Malchos and the Origins of Africa”, Mouseion 11: 191-219.
Amitay, O. 2012. “Alexander in Bavli Tamid: in Search of a Meaning”, in (eds.) Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson and Ian Netton, The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East. Groningen: Barkhuis. pp. 349-65.
אמיתי, א. 2012. ״הרומן שלי עם ויקי: שימושים בתוכנת מדיה-ויקי במערכת ההשׂכלה הגבוהה״, 'גדיש יג: 182-87.
Amitay, O. 2013. “The Correspondence in I Maccabees and the Possible Origins of the Judeo-Spartan Connection”. Scripta Classica Israelica 32: 79-105.
Amitay. O. 2014. “Digital Approaches to the Study of Ancient Monotheism”, in (eds.) Claire Clivaz, Andrew Gregory and David Hamidović , Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies, Early Jewish and Christian Studies. Leiden: Brill. pp. 141-150.
Amitay, O. 2014. “Josephus, Paulina and Fulvia: Hidden Agenda in Josephus, Antiquities 18.65-84”. The Ancient World 45.
Amitay, O. 2014. “Vagantibus Graeciae Fabulis: The North African Wanderings of Antaios and Herakles”, Mediterranean Historical Review.
Amitay, O & N. Kaye. Forthcoming. “Kleopatra’s Dowry and the Historicity of AJ 12.154-55”, Historia.

Encyclopedic Entries

Bagnall, Roger S. et al. 2012. The encyclopedia of ancient history. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Simon the Just, Jerusalem High-Priest
Jason, Jerusalem High-Priest
Alcimus, Jerusalem High-Priest