Islamic Influences: The Karaites and Religious Movements in Islam and Karaite Historiography and Historical Consciousness, articles in Karaite Studies: An Introduction, edited by Meira Polliack, E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, invited contributor, in preparation, forthcoming (2002).

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Medieval Jewish Studies: Methods and Problems, Dead Sea Discoveries, 8:2 (2001).

Karaites, article in the Reader’s Guide to Judaism, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, (2000). Karaites and Magharians, articles in the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by Lawrence H.Schiffman and James C. VanderKam, Oxford University Press, (2000).

Karaite Approaches to History in Medieval Islam and A Tribute to Professor William M. Brinner in Judaism and Islam: Boundaries, Interaction, and Communication, edited by Benjamin Hary, John L. Hayes and Fred Astren, E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, (2000).

De-Paganizing Death: Aspects of Mourning in Judaism and Islam, Magazine, College of Humanities, San Francisco State University, 17:1 (Spring, 1999).

History or Philosophy? The Construction of the Past in Medieval Karaite Judaism, Medieval Encounters   (E.J. Brill, Leiden), 1:1 (1995).

Occasional Writing and Reviews
Jewish Perceptions of Time: Linear, Layered, Cyclical, and Circular scholarly essay in exhibition catalog, Telling Time, The Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California (2000).

Review of: Laskier, Michael M., North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century (New York, 1994) in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 29 (1995), 42-43. (with Sumaiya Hamdani) A Prolegomenon to the Topic of Sectarianism, electronic publication for the Carolina Seminar in Comparative Islamic Studies (April, 1995).
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Selected Presented Papers
Problems in Assessing the Impact of Islamization on Jews in the Medieval Middle East, part of a panel entitled, Exchange and Interchange in Jewish and Islamic Studies (part 3), Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (Nashville, November, 2000).

The Challenge of Islamization for Jews in the Medieval Middle East, part of a panel entitled, Exchange and Interchange in Jewish and Islamic Studies (continued), Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Chicago, December, 1999).

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Medieval Jewish Studies: Methods and Problems, Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature (Boston, November, 1999).

Boundaries of Jewish Studies? Sectarianism and the Margins of Jewish Societies under Islam, part of a panel entitled, Exchange and Interchange in Jewish and Islamic Studies, Western Jewish Studies Association (Seattle, March, 1999).

De-Paganizing Death: Mortuary Practice in Judaism and Islam, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (Orlando, November, 1998).

The Peddler’s Bag and A Cluster of Henna: Karaite and Byzantine Encyclopedism in the Twelfth Century, Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, December, 1997). ‘What has Anglia to do with Jerusalem?’ A Biblical Explanation for Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis in  Modern Fundamentalist Christianity, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (New Orleans, November, 1996).

Reading the Story of Anan ben David in Islam and Christendom, Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, December, 1996).

The Gibeonite Gambit: Sabians and Karaite Jews on the Margins of Medieval Islamic Society, at Appropriating and Re-appropriating the Past: History and Historiography in Islamic and Judaic Traditions, a conference sponsored by the Institute of Islamic-Judaic Studies (University of Denver, September, 1996).

Hoax and Heresy: Karaites in the Religious Worlds of Islam and Christendom, part of panel entitled, Within and Without Survival Strategies and Self-Definition among Karaite Jews in the Middle East, Europe and the United States, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Atlanta, January, 1996).

‘Shimon ben Shetah Came and Falsified a Torah,’ Karaite Readings of Rabbinic History, Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature (Philadelphia, November, 1995).

Islamic Strategies in Jewish Law: Early Karaite Halakhah, Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, December, 1994).

Jewish Historical Self-Definition in the Islamic Middle Ages, Harvard Divinity School (Boston, March, 1994).

‘What has Anglia to do with Jerusalem?’ A Biblical Explanation for Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis, at Anglo-Saxonism: The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England from the Anglo-Saxons to the Present Day a conference sponsored by the Anglo-Saxon Colloquium (University of California, Berkeley, March, 1994)

Heresiography and Rationalism in the Karaite Construction of History, Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, December, 1993).

History or Philosophy? The Construction of the Past in Medieval Karaite Judaism, Roundtable Session, Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (Washington, D.C., November, 1993).

Karaite Claims to History in the Islamic Period, at Bridging the Worlds of Islam and Judaism, an international conference (University of California, Berkeley, March, 1993).

Polemic and Theology in the Historiography of Karaite Judaism, Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Boston, December, 1992).

The Creative Historiography of Simha Isaac Lutzki (d. 1766), Meeting of the Academic Consortium for Jewish Studies (San Francisco, October, 1992).
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Selected Public and Invited Lectures
Principle Speaker: Religion and National Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Grinnell College Symposium on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, Grinnell, Iowa (October, 2001).

Scholar-teacher: God’s Cuisine and Israel’s Pantry: Food and Wine in Jewish Tradition, National Convention of the Central Council of American Rabbis, Monterey, California (July, 2001).

Speaker: Son Rise, Son Set: How a New Generation of Arab Leaders May Influence the Peace Process, Northern California Politics and Policy Conference sponsored by The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, San Francisco (September, 2000).

Speaker: How Jews Use Time, in conjunction with exhibition, Telling Time, The Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California (May, 2000).

Opening Speaker: Times of Change, Fourth Annual Western States Conference on Israel-U.S.Cultural Ties, sponsored by The Consulate General of Israel, San Francisco, California (April, 2000).

The Dorsha Wallman Lecture in Modern Torah Interpretation, New Perspectives in Judaic Studies Series: Karaite Judaism: Against the Rabbis and Between Islam and Christianity San Diego State University, (Fall, 1999).

San Francisco State University, Classics Department Annual Lecture Series: From Omphalos to Octagon: Reading Jerusalem’s Sacred Space (Spring, 1998).

Speaker: Between God, Prince and Peoples: The Middle East before Modernity, World Affairs Council, San Francisco (June, 1999).

Scholar-in-residence: Sukot in Sonoma, A Jewish Food and Wine Experience, sponsored by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (October, 1998).

Keynote speaker: Israel as Symbol for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Promised Lands, a program sponsored by the Contra Costa County Interfaith Council (October, 1998).

Stanford University, Panel on the Gulf War: History and Identity in the Middle East (Winter, 1991).

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