פרסומים

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.)

Books

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

Edited Books and Journals

1. Studies in the Geography of Israel, Vol. 15 1998 (Hebrew, MEHKARIM be-GEOGRAPHIA, Co-edited with E. Razin).

Articles in Refereed Periodicals

  1. M. Halloun PI, R. Rubin PI, "Palestinian Syriac Inscription from En Suweinit", Liber Annuus, XXXI (1981), pp. 291-298.
  2. R. Rubin, "The Laura Monasteries in the Desert during the Byzantine Period", Cathedra, 23 (1982), pp. 25-46 (Hebrew).
  3. R. Rubin, "Greek Orthodox Monasteries in the Old City of Jerusalem", Eretz Israel, Vol. 17 (A.J. Brawer Memorial Volume), (1984) pp. 109-116 (Hebrew).
  4. J. Patrich PI and R. Rubin PI, "Les Grottes de El-Aleiliyat et la Laura de Saint Firmin, Refuges des Juifs et Byzantins", Revue Biblique, 1984, pp. 381-387.
  5. R. Rubin PI and M. Yair, "The Maps of Stephan Illes - A Cartographer of Jerusalem in the 19th Century", Cathedra 36, (1985), pp. 63-72 (Hebrew).
  6. R. Rubin, "Notes on the Nature and Classification of the maps of Jerusalem 1486-1818", N. Kadmon (ed.), Cartography in Israel, 1985, pp. 15-23 (Hebrew).
  7. H. Goren PI and R. Rubin PI, "The Beginning of Modern Bee-Keeping in Eretz Israel", Mada, vol. 29, no. 4-5 (1985), pp. 181-187 (Hebrew).
  8. R. Rubin, "Old Maps of Jerusalem as Historical-Geographical Sources", Studies in the Geography of Israel, Vol. 12 (1986), pp. 52-64 (Hebrew).
  9. R. Rubin PI, Y. Scherschewsky, "Sa'adon - An Urban Settlement of the Byzantine Period in the Negev", Qadmoniot, 21, no. 1-2 (1988), pp. 49-54 (Hebrew).
  10. R. Rubin, "Water Conservation Methods in Israel's Negev Desert in Late Antiquity" Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 14, no. 3 (1988), pp. 229-244                     Hebrew Version:  R. Rubin, "Sources of Water Supply for Negev Settlements in the Nabataean, Roman and Byzantine Periods", D. Amit, Y. Hirschfeld, J. Patrich (Eds.), The Aqueducts of Ancient Palestine, Jerusalem 1989, pp. 313-324 (Hebrew).
  11. R. Rubin, "The De-Angelis Map of Jerusalem (1578) and it’s Copies", Cathedra 52 (1989), pp. 100 - 111 (Hebrew).
  12. R. Rubin PI, M. Levy PI, 'Appendix: "The Legend of the De-Angelis Map", Cathedra 52 (1989), pp. 112 - 119 (Hebrew).
  13. R. Rubin, "The Debate over Climate Changes in the Negev 4th - 7th Centuries C.E.", PEQ, 1989, pp. 71-78.
  14. Hebrew Version R. Rubin, "Was the Negev climate more comfortable during the Byzantine Period?", H. Lavee, A. P. Schick, A. Yair (eds.), Facets of the Geomorphology of the Negev, (Ran Gerson Memorial Volume) Jerusalem 1990, pp. 209-217 (Hebrew).
  15. R. Rubin, "The map of Jerusalem (1538) by Harmannus Borculus and its copies - a carto-genealogical study", The Cartographic Journal, Vol. 27 (June 1990), pp. 31-39.
  16. Hebrew Version R. Rubin, "The Jerusalem map of Harmannus Borculus (1538) and its copies: A carto genealogical study", Y. Katz, Y. Ben Arieh, Y. Kaniel, (Eds.), Historical-Geographical Studies in the Settlement of Eretz-Israel, vol. 2, Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 226-241. (Hebrew)
  17. R. Rubin, "Original Maps and their Copies: Carto-Genealogy of the Early Printed Maps of Jerusalem", Eretz Israel, Vol. 22 (David Amiran Volume), Jerusalem 1991, pp. 166-183 (Hebrew).
  18. R. Rubin, "A Chronogram Dated Map of Jerusalem", The Map Collector, 55 (Summer 1991), pp. 30-31.
  19. R. Rubin, "Settlement and Agriculture in an Ancient Desert Frontier", Geographical Review, vol. 81, no. 2, (1991) pp. 197-205.
  20. R. Rubin, "The Desert Marches of the Roman-Byzantine Empire as a Cultural Crossroad", Studies in the Geography of Israel, Vol. 14 (1993), pp. 19-30 (Hebrew).
  21. R. Rubin, "From Pictorial to Scientific Maps of Jerusalem", Cathedra, 75 (1995), pp. 55-68 (Hebrew).
  22. R. Ellenblum PI, R. Rubin PI, G. Solar, "Khirbat al- Lawza, a Frankish Farm House in the Judean Hills in Central Palestine", Levant, XXVIII (1996), pp. 189- 198.
  23. R. Rubin, "Urbanization, Settlement and Agriculture in the Negev Desert - The Impact of the Roman - Byzantine Empire on the Frontier", ZDPV 112 (1996), pp. 49-60.
  24. H. Goren PI and R. Rubin PI, "Conrad Schick's Models of Jerusalem and its Monuments", PEQ 128 (1996), pp. 103-124.
  25. Hebrew Version H. Goren PI and R. Rubin PI, "Conrad Schick's Models and Relief Maps of Jerusalem and its Monuments," Studies in the Geography of Israel, Vol. 15, 1998, pp. 47-75 (Hebrew).
  26. R. Rubin, "Jerusalem in Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates", The Cartographic Journal 33, 2 (1996) pp. 119-129.
  27. R. Rubin, The Romanization of the Negev, Israel: Geographical and Cultural Changes in Desert Frontier in Late Antiquity, Journal of Historical Geography 23, 3 (1997), pp. 267-283.
  28. R. Rubin, Priests, Soldiers, and Administrators: Society and Institutions in the Byzantine Negev, Mediterranean Historical Review 12, 1 (June 1997), pp. 56-74.
  29. R. Rubin, The Roman-Byzantine Empire and its Desert Frontiers: The Negev vs Tripolitania - a Comparative Study, Cathedra, 89 (1998), pp. 63-82 (Hebrew)
  30. R. Rubin, When Jerusalem was built in St. Louis: A large scale model of Jerusalem in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904, PEQ 132 (2000), pp. 59-70
  31. R. Rubin, Historical Geography in Israel - Prospects and Achievements, Cathedra 100 (2001), pp. 339-360 (Hebrew).
  32. M. Levy-Rubin PI and R. Rubin PI, On an Unknown Appellation of Jerusalem from the Ottoman Period, Zutot, 2001, pp. 118-121
  33. Hebrew Version, in Ha-Mizrah Ha Hadash, 44 (2004), pp. 189-193
  34. M. FruminPI, R. RubinPI, D. Gavish, A Russian Naval officer’s Map of Haifa Bay (1772), Imago Mundi, vol. 54 (2002), pp. 125-128
  35. R. Rubin, The Melagria: On Anchorites and Edible Roots in Judaean Desert, Liber Annuus, LII, (2002) pp. 347-352 
  36. R. Rubin, Greek and “Syrian” Anchorites in the Laura of St. Firmin, ARAM 15 (2003), pp. 81-96
  37. M. Frumin PI, R. Rubin PI. D. Gavish, A Russian Map of Haifa bay (1772), Cathedra 107 (2003), pp. 155-166 (Hebrew)
  38. Hebrew Version: On Melagria, Skillas and Anchorites in the Judaean Desert, Ofakim be Geographia, 52 (2000), pp. 103-108 (Hebrew)
  39. R. Rubin, Timing the Sacred Space: The Diachronic Concept in Early Maps of Jerusalem, Ofakim 60-61 (special issue in English for the IGU Conference in Glasgow 2004), pp. 323-330.
  40. R. Rubin, One City, different views: A Comparative Study of Three Pilgrimage Maps of Jerusalem, Journal of Historical Geography, 32 (2006), pp. 267-290
  41. R. Rubin, Relief Maps and Models in the Archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund in London, PEQ, 138,1 (2006), pp. 43-63
  42. R. Rubin, Das Reliefmodell der Stadt Jerusalem von Stephan Illés (1873), Cartographia Helvetica, Vol. 34, July 2006, pp. 35-42 (German)
  43. R. RubinPI and M. Levy-RubinPI, An Italian Version of a Greek-Orthodox Proskynetarion, Oriens Christianus, 90 (2006), 184-201
  44. R. Rubin PI and M. Levy-Rubin PI, The Early Cartographic Tradition of the Holy Land and The Origins of the Crusader Maps of Jerusalem, Eretz Israel, Vol. 28 (Teddy Kolek Volume), Jerusalem 2007, pp. 255-269 (Hebrew).
  45. R. Rubin, Stephan Illes and his 3D Model-Map of Jerusalem (1873), Cartographic Journal, Vol. 44, No. 1, (February 2007), pp. 71-79.
  46. Rehav Rubin, Рубин Рехав, "Свидетельства нероссийских источников о русском паломничестве в Палестину в XIX в.", PPSB v.105, 2007, стр. (pp.) 184-191 (Russian).
  47. R. Rubin, Hug Haaretz By Rabbi Solomon of Chelm: an Early Geographical Treatise and its sources, Aleph, 8 (2008), pp. 131-147
  48. R. Rubin, A Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Map from Mantua, Imago Mundi Vol. 62, Part I (2010), 325-340.
  49. D. Bar and R. Rubin, The Jewish Quarter after 1967: A Case Study on the Creation of an Ideological-Cultural Landscape in Jerusalem’s Old City, Journal of Urban History, vol. XX(X) (2011), pp. 1–18
  50. Hebrew Version: D. Bar and R. Rubin, The Jewish Quarter in Old Jerusalem after 1967, Zmanim, 113 (2011) pp. pp. 75-89.
  51. R. Rubin, Greek-Orthodox Maps of Jerusalem from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, e-Perimetron, Vol. 8, No. 3, (2013), pp. 106-132.
  52. Hebrew version: Catedra 155 (2015, pp. 17 – 46.   
  53. Motti Zohar, Rehav Rubin, and Amos Salamon, Earthquake Damage and Repair: New Evidence from Jerusalem on the 1927 Jericho Earthquake, Seismological Research Letters, Volume 85, Number 4 July/August 2014, pp. 912-922
  54. Motti Zohar, Rehav Rubin, and Amos Salamon, Why is the Minaret so Short? Evidence for an earthquake’s damage on Mt. Zion, PEQ 147,3 (2015), pp. 230-246
  55. Motti Zohar, Amos Salamon, and Rehav Rubin, Reappraised list of historical earthquakes that affected Israel and its close surroundings, Journal of Seismology · April 2016
  56. Rehav Rubin, Henry Timberlake's Journey to Jerusalem: an historical geographer's critique, Merhavim, vol. 7, pp. 13-23 (Hebrew)
  57. Zohar, M., Salamon, A., & Rubin, R., Earthquake damage history in Israel and its close surroundings – evaluation of spatial and temporal patterns, Tectonophysics, 696-697,(2017) 1-13.
  58. Rehav Rubin, Proskynetarion: One Term for Two Kinds of Jerusalemite Pilgrimage Souvenirs, Eastern Christian Art 10 (2014-2016), pp. 97-11.

 

  1. Varia:
  2. R. Rubin, "Fantasy & Reality - Ancient maps of Jerusalem" Bible Review, vol. IX no. 2 (1993), pp. 34-42.
  3. R. Rubin, "Climate Versus the Human Factor: The Rise and the Fall of Byzantine Negev Settlement", Michmanim 8 (1995), pp. 23-32 (Hebrew).
  4. R. Rubin, A Greek Inscription from Sepphoris and the Indiction as a Means of Dating, Qadmoniot, 31, 1 (115, 1998), pp. 67 (Hebrew).
  5. R. Rubin, On the Validity and Reliability of Antique Maps of the Holy Land as Historical Geographical Sources, Cathedra 83 (1997), pp. 182-183 (Hebrew).

 

Articles and Chapters in Books

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.
 

Book Reviews

. 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. Mapping the Holy Land: the Foundation of a Scientific Cartography in Palestine. By Bruno Schelhaas, Jutta Faehndrich and Haim Goren. Tauris Historical Geography Series 11. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Imago Mundi Vol. 70, Part 2: 255

 

 

 

Invited Presentation in International Conferences

  1. Byzantine Monasteries in Judaean Desert: History, Geography and Architecture, A paper presented at: Monestirs, the XXIII Course on Intervention on Architectural Heritage, Barcelona, December 2000.
  2. Visual Images of Jerusalem through the Ages, A keynote speech at: The 2nd International Meeting “Iconic Worlds … more than what we see” Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva, 22-24 May 2004.
  3. Mapping the Land of the Bible: Jewish Cartography between Tradition and Imitation A paper presented at the 5th Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography (in conjunction with a meeting of the Texas Map Society), 6-7 October 2006, University of Texas at Arlington.

Papers Presented in International Conferences

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

Research Report

 

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).