| The letters of St. Antony: monasticism and the making of a saint S Rubenson A&C Black, 1995 | 301 | 1995 |
| The letters of St. Antony: origenist theology, monastic tradition and the making of a saint S Rubenson Lund University Press, 1990 | 201 | 1990 |
| Asceticism and Monasticism, I. Varieties of Eastern Monasticism S Rubenson Cambridge History of Christianity, vol II, 637-668, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| Translating the Tradition: Some remarks on the Arabization of the Patristic Heritage in Egypt S Rubenson Medieval Encounters 2 (1), 4-14, 1996 | 67 | 1996 |
| Christian asceticism and the emergence of the monastic tradition S Rubenson Asceticism, 49-57, 1995 | 64 | 1995 |
| Philosophy and simplicity: the problem of classical education in early Christian biography S Rubenson Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity, 110-139, 2001 | 60 | 2001 |
| Monastic education in late antiquity: the transformation of classical Paideia LI Larsen, S Rubenson Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 54 | 2018 |
| The Formation and Re-formations of the Sayings of the Desert Fathers S Rubenson Papers presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic …, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| The transition from Coptic to Arabic S Rubenson Égypte/monde arabe, 77-92, 1996 | 41 | 1996 |
| Origen in the Egyptian monastic tradition of the fourth century S Rubenson Origenes in den Auseinandersetzungen des 4. Jahrhunderts, 319-337, 1999 | 37 | 1999 |
| Antony and Pythagoras: a reappraisal of the appropriation of classical biography in Athanasius' S Rubenson Beyond reception, 191-208, 2006 | 30 | 2006 |
| Monasticism and the philosophical heritage S Rubenson | 26 | 2012 |
| The Cappadocians on the Areopagus S Rubenson Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006 | 21 | 2006 |
| Internal rivalries and foreign threats 1869-1879: Acta Æthiopica. Vol. 3 S Rubenson, A Aklilu, MW Aregay, S Rubenson Addis Ababa University Press, 2000 | 21 | 2000 |
| The Egyptian relations of early Palestinian monasticism S Rubenson The Christian Heritage in the Holy Land, 35-46, 1995 | 19 | 1995 |
| The missionary factor in Ethiopia: papers from a Symposium on the Impact of European Missions on Ethiopian Society, Lund, University, August 1996 G Haile, A Lande, S Rubenson Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums, 1998 | 18 | 1998 |
| ’As Already Translated to the Kingdom While still in the Body.’The transformation of the Ascetic in early Egyptian Monasticism S Rubenson Religious experience from antiquity to the middle ages 1, 271-89, 2009 | 17 | 2009 |
| Early Monasticism and the Concept of a S Rubenson Monastic education in late antiquity, 13-32, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| Argument and authority in early monastic correspondence S Rubenson Foundations of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late-Antique Monasticism …, 2007 | 15 | 2007 |
| The Apophthegmata Patrum in Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic. Status Questionis S Rubenson Parole de l’Orient 36, 319-27, 2011 | 13 | 2011 |
