Contributors
Philip Alexander FBA
Emeritus Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester.
Markus Bockmuehl
Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford.
Sebastian Brock FBA
Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford.
Shaye J. D. Cohen
Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University.
Yehudah B. Cohn
Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.
Kimberley Czajkowski
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh.
Jonathan Davies
Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University.
David Friedman
Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at St Edmund’s College; Bye- Fellow, Darwin College; Affiliated Researcher in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Catherine Hezser
Professor of Jewish Studies at SOAS, University of London.
William Horbury FBA
Emeritus Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Sabrina Inowlocki
Marie Curie Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies at KU Leuven.
Benjamin Isaac
Emeritus Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History at Tel Aviv University.
Aharon Oppenheimer z”l
Sir Isaac Wolfson Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University. He sadly passed away in the course of the preparation of this volume.
Jonathan Price
Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History at Tel Aviv University.
Tessa Rajak
Emerita Professor of Ancient History at the University of Reading; Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford.
Alison G. Salvesen
Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity at the University of Oxford.
Daniel R. Schwartz
Emeritus Herbst Family Professor of Judaic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Seth Schwartz
Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at Columbia University.
Sacha Stern FBA
Professor of Rabbinic Judaism at University College London.
Amram Tropper
Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
H. G. M. Williamson FBA
Emeritus Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford.