Tessa Rajak
Tessa Rajak | |
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| Born | 2 August 1946 London, England |
| Known for | Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The writings of Josephus. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History Ancient history |
| Institutions | University of Reading |
Tessa Rajak (née Goldsmith, born 2 August 1946 in London)[1] is a British historian and Emeritus Professor of Ancient history at the University of Reading.[2] She is also a Senior Associate of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies[3] and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.[4] Her research focuses primarily on Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and she is an expert on the writings of Josephus.
Career
Tessa Rajak was educated at
Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford; her book Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora (Oxford University Press 2009) is based on the six lectures which she gave during this time.[7] Rajak was editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies from 2000 to 2003.[8] She retired from the University of Reading in December 2008.[9] A symposium in her honour, entitled 'Jews, Christians, Greeks, Romans: Cultural and Religious Interactions', was held at Reading on 25 June 2009.[10] From 2012 to 2015 she was co-investigator (with Professor Martin Goodman and Dr. Andrea Schatz) on a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and entitled 'The Reception of Josephus in Jewish Culture from the 18th Century to the Present'.[11]
Selected publications
Monographs
- Flavius Josephus. Jewish History and the Greek World. Dissertation, University of Oxford 1974.
- Josephus. The Historian and his Society. Fortress Press, Philadelphia 1984, ISBN 0-800-60717-1.
- The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome. Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction (= Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums. Band 48). Brill, Leiden 2000, ISBN 90-04-11285-5.
- Translation and survival. The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-199-55867-4.
Edited volumes
- with ISBN 0-415-04972-5.
- with ISBN 0-198-29990-7.
- with ISBN 978-0-520-25084-0.
- with Claudia D. Bergmann, Benedikt Kranemann and Rebecca Ullrich, The Power of Pslam in Post-Biblical Judaism, Brill, Leiden, 2023
Personal life
Rajak is the daughter of Lithuanian-English journalist S. J. Goldsmith. She is married to Harry Rajak, Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Sussex.[12]
References
- ISBN 0230304664.
- ^ "History Online".
- ^ "Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies".
- ^ Somerville College - Tessa Rajak
- ^ "SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online)".
- ^ "Jewish Virtual Library".
- ^ "Bryn Mawr Classical Review".
- ^ "Journal of Jewish Studies".
- ^ "University of Reading: Classics Staff".
- ^ "School of Humanities, University of Reading".
- ^ "Classics at Reading".
- ISBN 0230304664.
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