1986 Promotion in Ev. Theologie in Heidelberg mit Schwerpunkt Neues Testament; 1992 Promotion in Jewish Studies am Jewish Theological Seminary in New York; 1997 Habilitation an der FU Berlin; seit 2005 Professorin für Jewish Studies an der School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) der University of London.

• Catherine Hezser: Introduction - Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Some Early Greek Lawgivers - Hannah Cotton: 'Diplomatics' or External Aspects of the Legal Documents from the Judean Desert: Prolegomena - Jill Harries: Creating Legal Space: Settling Disputes in the Roman Empire - Natalie B. Dohrman: The Boundaries of the Law and the Problem of Jurisdiction in an Early Palestinian Midrash - Leib Moscovitz: Legal Fictions in Rabbinic Law and Roman Law: Some Comparative Observations - Catherine Hezser: Slaves and Slavery in Rabbinic and Roman Law - Hayim Lapin: Maintenance of Wives and Children in Early Rabbinic and Documentary Texts from Roman Palestine - Bernard S. Jackson: Problems in the Development of the Ketubah Payment: The Shimon ben Shetach Tradition - Yaakov Elman: Marriage and Marital Property in Rabbinic and Sasanian Law - Ranon Katzoff: Children of Intermarriage: Roman and Jewish Conceptions