Ph.D. Dissertation:
R. Rubin, Settlement Patterns and the Agricultural Base of Rehovot ba-Negev in the Byzantine Period, Jerusalem 1986.
(Supervised by Prof. Y. Ben-Arieh, Prof. Y. Tsafrir, Prof. R. Gerson.)
1. R. Rubin, Jerusalem through Maps and Views, Tel Aviv, 1987 (Hebrew, 168 pages).
2. R. Rubin, The Negev as a Settled Land, Urbanization and Settlement in the Desert in the Byzantine Period, Jerusalem 1990 (Hebrew, 200 pages).
3. R. Rubin, Image and Reality, Jerusalem in Maps and Views, Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 1999 (182 pages).
4. R. Rubin, Zurat Haaretz, Hebrew maps of the Holy Land from Rashi to the early 20th century, Yad Ben Zvi, 2014 (Hebrew).
5. R. Rubin, Stories Told by the Mountains: Cultural Landscape through Time, Resling, Tel Aviv 2018 (Hebrew).
6. Rehav Rubin, Portraying the Land: Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the Early 20th Century, de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, 2018
1. Studies in the Geography of Israel, Vol. 15 1998 (Hebrew, MEHKARIM be-GEOGRAPHIA, Co-edited with E. Razin).
1. R. Rubin, "Ancient Nessana and its Water Sources", Y. Ben Arieh, Y. Ben Artzi, H. Goren (Eds.), Historical-Geographical Studies in the Settlement of Eretz-Israel, Jerusalem 1987, pp. 193-202 (Hebrew).
2. R. Rubin, "Historical Geography of Eretz Israel - Survey of the Ancient period", in: R. Kark (ed.), The Land That Became Israel, Studies in Historical Geography, Yale University Press and Magnes Press, New Haven, London, Jerusalem, 1989, pp. 23-36.
3. R. Rubin, Jerusalem in Maps and Views, in: Gifts of Tamar and Teddi Kolek to the Israel Museum, (Catalogue of the Israeli Museum, Hebrew and English) 1990 pp. 85-133.
4. R. Rubin, "Ideology and landscape in early printed maps of Jerusalem", A. R. H. Baker and G. Biger (eds.), Ideology and the Landscape in Historical Perspective, Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, pp. 15-30.
5. M. Levy - Rubin PI and R. Rubin PI, The Image of the Holy City: Maps and Mapping of Jerusalem, in: N. Rosovsky (ed.), City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to Present, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass. 1996, pp. 352 – 379 (Invited article).
6. R. Rubin, "Settlement and Urbanization in the Negev in Late Antiquity", in: Y. Gradus and G. Lipschitz (Eds.), The Mosaic of Israeli Geography at the Close of the Twentieth Century, Beer Sheva, Ben Gurion University Press, 1996, pp. 373-381.
7. R. Rubin, "The De-Pierre map of Jerusalem 1728", Y. Ben Artzi, I. I. Bartal, E. Reiner (Eds.) Studies in Geography and History in Honor of Yehoshua Ben Arieh, Jerusalem 1999, pp. 1-28 (Hebrew).
8. R. Rubin, "Jerusalem and its Environs: The Impact of Geographical Physical Conditions on the development of Jerusalem", S. Ahituv & A. Mazar (Eds.), Sepher Yerushalim, Vol. I, Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem 2000, pp. 1-12 ((Invited article, Hebrew).
9. R. Rubin, Air Photographs as an implement for the Study of Ancient Agricultural Field Systems in the Negev, A. Danin & B.Z. Kedar (eds.) Remote Sensing, Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem 2000, pp. 143-153 (Hebrew).
10. R. Rubin, Jerusalem in St. Louis - A Model of the Holy City in the Worlds’ Fair (1904), J. Schwartz, Z. Amar, I. Ziffer (eds.), Jerusalem and Eretz Israel, Tel Aviv 2000, pp. 187-198 (Hebrew)
11. R. Rubin, Byzantine Monasteries in the Judaean Desert: History, Geography and Architecture, in: Albert Pla I Gisbert (ed.), Monasteries, Intervention in the Architectural Heritage, Barcelona 2000, pp. 125-129 (English and Spanish).
12. R. Rubin, From Center of the World to Modern City: Maps of Jerusalem through the Ages, in: A. Tishby (ed.) Holy Land in Maps, Jerusalem and New York 2001, pp. 25-39.
13. M. Levy-Rubin PI and R. Rubin PI, Early World Maps, in: A. Tishby (ed.) Holy Land in Maps, Jerusalem and New York 2001, pp. 50-53
14. R. Rubin, Articles about: Eusebius and Hieronymus; Bernhard von Breydenbach; Abraham Bar Jacob; Camocio; De Angelis; Villalpando; De Pierre; in A. Tishby (ed.) Holy Land in Maps, Jerusalem and New York 2001
Nos. 12-14 were invited and published both in English and Hebrew for a prestigious catalogue of an exhibition in the Israel Museum, the English and the Hebrew editions are not identical.
15. R. Rubin, Iconography as Cartography: Two Cartographic Icons of the Holy City and its Environs, Eastern Mediterranean Cartography, G. Tolias and D. Loupis (eds.), Athens 2004, pp. 347-378.
Hebrew Version R. Rubin, Two Cartographic Icons of Jerusalem and its Environs from the Eighteenth Century, Y. Ben Arieh and E. Reiner (eds.), Studies in the History of Eretz Israel, Presented to Yehuda Ben Porat, Jerusalem 2003, pp. 427-448 (Hebrew)
16. M. Frumin PI, R. Rubin PI, D. Gavish, The Haifa –Acre Bay Mapping by Russian Navy in the Late 18th Century, Y. Bar-Gal, N. Kliot, A. Peled (Eds.), Eretz Israel Studies, Aviel Ron Book, Haifa 2004, pp. 290-306 (Hebrew)
17. R. Rubin, Sacred Space and Mythic Time in the Early Printed Maps of Jerusalem, in: Tamar Mayer and Suleiman A. Mourad (eds.). Jerusalem: Idea and Reality. London and New York: Routledge, 2008 pp. 123-139.
18. R. Rubin, Models and Relief-Maps in the Archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund in London, Man Near A Roman Arch, Studies presented to Prof. Yoram Tsafrir, L. De Segni, Y. Hirschfeld, J. Patrich, R. Talgam, Jerusalem 2009, pp. 43-56 (Hebrew)
19. R. Rubin, H. Goren, Cartographic Representations of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth century: Maps, Relief Maps and Models, in: I. Bartal and H. Goren, (Eds.), Sepher Yerushalim, The 19th Century, Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem 2010, pp. 403 - 428 (Invited article, Hebrew).
20. Y. Porat and Rehav Rubin, A 16th Century Unknown Description of the Holy Places by an Hungarian Franciscan Minorite, in: Kobi Cohen-Hatav, Assaf Selzer, Doron Bar, (eds.), A City reflected through its research, Jerusalem, 2011, pp. 56-75 (Hebrew)
21. R. Rubin, Quaresmius’ Novae Ierosolymae et locorum circumiacentium accurata imago (1639): An Image of the Holy City and its Message, in: Visual Translations of Jerusalem, edited by Bianca Kühnel, Galit Noga-Banai, Hanna Vorholt, Brepols, Turnhout, 2014, pp. 277- 284.
. Rome's Desert Frontiers from the Air, By David Kennedy and Derrick Riley, University of Texas Press, Austin 1990.
1.Review in The Geographical Review, vol. 28 no. 3 (July 1992), pp. 339-340.
* Hebrew version in: Cathedra 72 (1994) pp. 169-172.
2. The Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem, by Dan Bahat, Simon and Schuster and Carta, 1989.
Review in: Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 28, no. 4 (1992) pp. 810-812.
3. H. Goren, Go View the Land, Jerusalem 1999, 362 pages, in: Sepharim (Haaretz Literrary Supplememnt) 1999 (Hebrew)
4. Z. B. Begin, As We Do Not See Azeqa, The source of the Lachish Letter, Jerusalem 2000, in: Sepharim (Haaretz Literrary Supplememnt) 2000 (Hebrew)
5. Burke O. Long. Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models and Fantasy Travels, Bloomington: Indiana University press, 2003. xi + 258 pp. AJSR 28:2 (2004), pp. 395-397.
6. H. Goren, Real Catholics and Good Germans, The German Catholics and Palestine, 1839-1910, Jerusalem 2005. 377 pp. Cathedra 125 (2007), pp. 169-171 (Hebrew).
7. Zur Shalev, Sacred Words and Worlds Geography, Religion and Scholarship, 1550-1700, by Zur Shalev, History of Science and Medicine Library, Vol. 21; Scientific and Learned Cultures and their Institutions, Vol. 2, Leiden and London: Brill, 2012, in: Imago Mundi, 64, 2 (2012), pp. 228-229.
8. Hisham Khatib, Jerusalem, Palestine & Jordan: In the Archives of Hisham Khatib, foreword by Sarah Searight. London: Gilgamesh Publishing, 2013, 289 pp. in: Catedra, 158 (2016), pp. 196- 198 (Hebrew)
9. Unraveling the Truth: Alleged Forgery and the "Oldest Bible", Review of Chanan Tigay, The Lost Book of Moses, New York 2016, in Biblical Arcaeology Review, 42, 5 (2016), pp. 56-58.
10. Mt. Carmel in the past and present, Review of the Hebrew edition of Von Molinen's book, Jerusalem 2013, Catedra 159 (2016), pp. 194-197 (Hebrew).
11. Review on Yossi Ben Arzi, Rural Jewish settlement in Cyprus, 1883-1939, Ramat-Gan 2015, Zion 82 (2017), pp. 373-375 (Hebrew).
1.Ideology and Landscape: Early Printed Maps of Jerusalem as a case study of Place, Concept and Ideology. A paper presented at: The Seventh International Conference of Historical Geography, Jerusalem, July 1989.
2.Original Maps and their Copies, Carto-genealogy of Early Printed Maps of Jerusalem. A paper presented at: The 14th International Conference on the History of Cartography. Uppsala and Stockholm, June 1991.
3.Roman Byzantine Colonization of Desert Frontiers: a Cultural Crossroads. A paper presented at: The Eighth International Conference of Historical Geographers, Vancouver, Summer 1992.
4.Priests, Soldiers, and Administrators: The Role of Institutions in the Settlement of the Negev Desert in the Byzantine Period. A paper presented at: The Role of Institutions in the Development and change of Landscape, Cambridge April 1995.
5. Did the Climate Change? An Historical Geographer's view on the Negev during the Byzantine Period. A paper presented at: International Conference on Geomorphic Response of Mediterranean and Arid Areas to Climate Change, Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan, May 1995.
6. The de Pierre Map of Jerusalem, 1728. A paper presented at: the 16th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Vienna, September 1996.
7. Representation of Self and Others: Three Versions of a Pilgrimage Map of the Holy City Jerusalem. A paper presented at: The Tenth International Conference of Historical Geographers, Northern Ireland, July 1998.
8.18th Century Greek Orthodox Images of the Holy City and its Environs. A paper presented at: the 17th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Athens, July 1999.
9.Greek and Syriac Anchorites in the Laura of St. Firmin, A paper presented at the ARAM 16th International Conference: Palestine Christianity 500-1000 A.D., Oxford, July 2001.
10.Oral History and Historical Geography: the case of the Village of Abu-Gosh (Israel), A paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), London, September 2003.
11.Why travel to Palestine? A Model of Jerusalem in the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exhibition, A paper presented at the 44th Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, New Orleans, October 2003.
12.The map has a Message: Reality, Ideology and Symbolism in the Early Printed Maps of Jerusalem. A Paper presented at: The Idea of Jerusalem Symposium, Middlebury College, Vermont, April 2005.
13.Stephan Illes and his 3D map of Jerusalem, A paper presented at the ICHC 2005 in Budapest, July 2005.
14.Non Russian Evidence to Russian Pilgrimage in 19th Century Palestine, A paper presented at the Conference “Jerusalem in the Russian Spiritual Tradition”, Jerusalem, November 1-2 2005.
15.Orthodox Pilgrimage Itineraries from the 16th-18th centuries, A paper presented at the Conference “In the Wake of Pilgrims to the Holy Land”, Jerusalem, December 2005.
16.Through the Windows of the Time Machine: Judaean Hills as an Historical Cultural Landscape, A paper presented at the 13th International Conference of Historical Geography, Hamburg, August 2006.
17.Between Cyprus and Jerusalem: A Cypriote 18th century Orthodox Icon, The IV International Cyprological Congress, Nicosia, May 2008
18.Mapping a Myth: The Cartographic Image of the Overthrowing of Sodom and Gomorrah, a paper presented in the International Conference on History of Cartography, Copenhagen, July 2009
19.An Unknown Franciscan’s Map of Jerusalem and its Transformations (1687 - 1728), a paper presented in Travelers, Pilgrims and Testimonies, Neve Shalom, November 2009, pp. 101-118 (Italian and English).
20.Quaresmius Novae Ierosolymae (1639) – A Realistic Image of the Holy City, a paper presented in the International Conference the 'Visual Constructs of Jerusalem', Jerusalem, November 2010
21.Notes for the Study of 19th Century Maps of Palestine/ Israel/ Holy Land, a paper presented in the International Workshop: Robinson, van de Velde, and German Holy Land Cartography in the mid‐19th century, Tel-Hai, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, May 1–7, 2012
22.Hebrew copies of German maps - Cartography as a mirror to cross cultural relations, a paper presented in the International Workshop: Robinson, van de Velde, and German Holy Land Cartography in the mid‐19th century, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Tel‐Hai College & Research Library Gotha, Gotha, September 10–12, 2013
23.The rise and the decline of desert agriculture in southern Israel in late antiquity: Human achievement or climatic change, World Conference on Environmental History Guimarães, Portugal, July 2014
24.Proskynetarion - Two Groups of Jerusalemite Pilgrimage Souvenirs, presented in: ‘Remembering Jerusalem: Imagination, Memory, and the City’, London, 6-7 November 2014
25.Digital Accessibility to Early Topographical Maps and Geo-referenced Air photographs of Israel, presented in: Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Corfu, May 2015
26.The Orthodox Pilgrimage Route in the Holy Land (17th-18th centuries), Presented in: London ICHG July 2015
27.Relief Maps and Models in the Archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund in London, presented in: PEF and the Early Exploration of the Holy Land, December 20-21, 2015, University of Haifa
28.The many faces of water collecting installations in southern Israel in late antiquity: Cultural influence and environmental adaptability, Workshop III: “Traditional Watershed Management” Berlin, April 2016
29.Jerusalem as reflected in maps, A paper presented in “Jerusalem in media imaginations” conference, Mainz, February 2017
30.How the Franciscans Chose to Portray Jerusalem, Milka Levy-Rubin and Rehav (Buni) Rubin, Paper presented at the conference on the Art and Archaeology of the Mendicant Orders in the Latin East, Nafplion, April 2017
R. Rubin, & Y. Paz (Eds.), Studies of the Land Purchase Process in the Late Ottoman and the British Mandate Period, Ben Zvi Institute, 1991 (100 pages, Hebrew).