Notes on Contributors
Kenneth Atkinson
(PhD, Temple University) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa. He has published on Josephus, Second Temple Jewish literature and history, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Michael Avioz
(PhD, Bar-Ilan University) is Full Professor in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of two books and numerous scholarly articles on Josephus.
Carson Bay
(PhD, Florida State University) is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for Judaistik at Universität Bern and part of the SNSF research team “Lege Josephum! Ways of Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages.” He has published on Josephus, his Latin reception and Pseudo-Hegesippus, and the Hebrew Sefer Yosippon, and his book Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus (Cambridge University Press, 2023) won a 2023 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise.
Yonatan Binyam
(PhD, Florida State University) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His research focuses on medieval Ethiopic receptions of ancient Jewish and early Christian writings.
Steven B. Bowman
(PhD, Ohio State University) is Emeritus Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. His most recent book is the first English translation of Sepher Yosippon (2022), based on David Flusser’s edition, and he has authored numerous articles on Sepher Yosippon and Jews in Byzantium.
Silvia Castelli
(PhD, University of Turin; PhD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Religion and Theology, Texts and Traditions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has published widely on the text of Josephus’ writings, among other things.
Saskia Dönitz
(PhD, Freie Universität Berlin) is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Seminar für Judaistik at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt in the DFG-ANR Project “A Hebrew Dante—Moshe da Rieti and his Miqdash Meat.” She has published on the Hebrew Yosippon, manuscript studies, and Byzantine Jewish literature.
David R. Edwards
(PhD, Florida State University) is Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Florida State University. He has published a book and chapter-length articles and essays on Josephus as well as the New Testament and late antique Christianity.
Yael S. Feldman
(PhD, Columbia University) is Professor Emerita at New York University, where she held the Katsh Chair of Hebrew Culture and was Affiliate Professor in Comparative Literature and Gender Studies. She has authored 6 books and over 100 articles and reviews. Her No Room of Their Own: Gender and Nation in Israeli Women’s Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2000) and Glory and Agony: Isaac’s Sacrifice and National Narrative (Stanford University Press, 2010) were National Jewish Book Award finalists. Her Lelo heder mishelahen (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2002) won the Avraham Friedman Memorial Prize.
Martin Goodman
(DPhil, Oxford University) is Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He has written extensively on both Jewish and Roman history and his publications on the writings of Josephus include Josephus’s The Jewish War: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2019).
Erich Gruen
(PhD, Harvard University) is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, among other works, of Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (University of California Press, 1998); Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2010); The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism (De Gruyter, 2016); and Ethnicity in the Ancient World: Did it Matter? (De Gruyter, 2020).
Jan Willem van Henten
(PhD, Leiden University) is Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Amsterdam and Extra-Ordinary Professor of Biblical Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has published on Jewish Martyrdom, the Maccabean Books, Josephus, and the reception of the Bible.
Katharina Heyden
(Dr. theol., University of Jena) is Full Professor for Ancient History of Christianity and Interreligious Encounters at the University of Bern. She was co-PI of the SNSF research team “Lege Josephum! Ways of Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages.”
David Levenson
(PhD, Harvard University) is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Religion Department at Florida State University. His research focuses on the Latin translations of Josephus’ Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities, the Greek text of Book 6 of the Jewish War, and the Emperor Julian and the Jews in ancient and medieval Christian historiography.
Steve Mason
(PhD, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto) is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Cultures and Religions at the University of Groningen. He is Editor of Brill’s Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary project, and publishes mainly on the history of Roman Judaea, Roman-provincial relations and identities, and historiography.
Ruth Nisse
(PhD, University of California—Berkeley) is Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Jewish Studies at Wesleyan University. Her most recent book is Jacob’s Shipwreck: Diaspora, Translation, and Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval England (Cornell University Press, 2017).
Andrea Schatz
(PhD, Universität Düsseldorf) is Reader in Jewish Studies at King’s College London. She has published on Jewish perspectives on language, nationality, and diaspora in the eighteenth century, and on early modern Jewish approaches to historical writing.
Meir Ben Shahar
(PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is Senior Lecturer at Sha’anan College. He has published on collective memory in late ancient Judaism, among other things.
Daniel Stein Kokin
(PhD, Harvard University) is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. His publications have addressed topics such as Jewish-Christian relations, Renaissance Humanism, Italian Jewish Studies, and the reception of Josephus.
Ursula Westwood
(DPhil, Oxford University) is a Lecturer in Greek at Stellenbosch University. She has published on various aspects of Josephus’ Antiquities and is the author of Moses among the Greek Lawgivers: Reading Josephus’ Antiquities through Plutarch’s Lives (Brill, 2023).
Nadia Zeldes
(PhD, Tel Aviv University) is Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She has published numerous articles on Christian-Jewish inter-relations in the Mediterranean, and authored Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance: Christians, Jews, and the Hebrew Sefer Josippon (Lexington Books, 2020).