Tessa Rajak
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British historian and academic
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Tessa Rajak's Degrees
- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Professor Manisha Rajak is a British historian and Emeritus Professor of Ancient history at the University of Reading. She is also a Senior Associate of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Her research focuses primarily on Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and she is an expert on the writings of Josephus.
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Published Works
- Translation and Survival (2009) (92)
- Was there a Roman Charter for the Jews? (1984) (90)
- Josephus, The Historian and His Society (1986) (85)
- The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction (2000) (77)
- Justus of Tiberias (1973) (69)
- Archisynagogoi: Office, Title and Social Status in the Greco-Jewish Synagogue (1993) (61)
- Roman Intervention in a Seleucid Siege of Jerusalem (1981) (49)
- The Jews among pagans and Christians : in the Roman Empire (1994) (47)
- Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora (2009) (39)
- Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World (2002) (34)
- INSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT: READING THE JEWISH CATACOMBS OF ROME (2001) (31)
- The Jews under Hasmonean rule (1994) (29)
- THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND ITS BOUNDARIES (2001) (27)
- TALKING AT TRYPHO: CHRISTIAN APOLOGETIC AS ANTI-JUDAISM IN JUSTIN'S DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO THE JEW (2001) (24)
- The Mediterranean Jewish Diaspora in the Second Century (2017) (24)
- A complete concordance to Flavius Josephus (1973) (24)
- Flavius Josephus between Jerusalem and Rome: His Life, His Works and Their Importance (1990) (23)
- The Essenes According to the Classical Sources (1990) (18)
- The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2012) (18)
- Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2015) (17)
- DYING FOR THE LAW: THE MARTYR'S PORTRAIT IN JEWISH-GREEK LITERATURE (2001) (16)
- The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East. Revised Edition (1993) (13)
- Josephus and the "Archaeology" of the Jews (1982) (11)
- JUDAISM AND HELLENISM REVISITED (2001) (11)
- The Unknown God (1977) (10)
- Jews and Christians as Groups in a Pagan World (1985) (10)
- The Parthians in Josephus (1998) (9)
- Jewish perspectives on Hellenistic rulers (2007) (8)
- An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (2000) (7)
- Moses in Ethiopia: Legend and literature (1978) (7)
- Syrian Christianity and Judaism (2013) (5)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography (2015) (5)
- THE RABBINIC DEAD AND THE DIASPORA DEAD AT BETH SHE’ARIM (2001) (5)
- Holy City, Holy Places: Christian Attitudes to Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the Fourth Century (1992) (5)
- FRIENDS, ROMANS, SUBJECTS: AGRIPPA II'S SPEECH IN JOSEPHUS’ JEWISH WAR (2001) (5)
- From Judaism to Christianity: The Syriac version of the Hebrew Bible (2013) (5)
- The Literature of the Sages, First Part: Oral Tora Halakha, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud, External Tractates (1990) (5)
- The Jews of the Graeco-Roman Diaspora between paganism and Christianity, AD 312-438 (2013) (4)
- Tell el-Hesi and the Camera: The Photographs of Petrie and Bliss (1990) (4)
- THE AGAINST APION AND THE CONTINUITIES IN JOSEPHUS’ POLITICAL THOUGHT (2001) (4)
- Philo’s knowledge of Hebrew (2014) (3)
- Jewish proselytizing in the first century (2013) (3)
- THE HASMONEANS AND THE USES OF HELLENISM (2001) (3)
- JEWS AND GREEKS: THE INVENTION AND EXPLOITATION OF POLARITIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (2001) (3)
- The Jewish diaspora (2006) (3)
- BENEFACTORS IN THE GRECO-JEWISH DIASPORA (2001) (3)
- SYNAGOGUE AND COMMUNITY IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN DIASPORA (2003) (3)
- The Maccabean Mother between Pagans, Jews, and Christians (2014) (3)
- Josephus in the Diaspora (2005) (3)
- The Jewish People in the First Century, (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum), Section I (1975) (2)
- HASMONEAN KINGSHIP AND THE INVENTION OF TRADITION (2001) (2)
- Josephus Flavius: Historian of Eretz — Israel in the Hellenistic — Roman Period (1985) (2)
- ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN JOSEPHUS (2001) (2)
- JEWS, PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN LATE ANTIQUE SARDIS: MODELS OF INTERACTION (2001) (2)
- Document and rhetoric in Josephus: Revisiting the ‘charter’ for the jews (2007) (2)
- JOSEPHUS AND JUSTUS OF TIBERIAS (2001) (2)
- Jesus and the Judaism of His Time (1989) (2)
- Flavius Josephus : Jewish history and the Greek world (1974) (2)
- Josephus and the Septuagint (2021) (1)
- THE SENSE OF HISTORY IN JEWISH INTERTESTAMENTAL WRITING (2001) (1)
- Josephus in Rome: the Outsiders Insider and Insiders Outsider (2014) (1)
- Translating the Septuagint for Ptolemy’s library: Myth and history (2008) (1)
- GREEKS AND JEWS (2001) (1)
- The Greek other (1999) (1)
- The angry tyrant (2008) (1)
- The Jews among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire@@@Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World (1994) (1)
- The Jewish Diaspora in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2018) (1)
- History and theology in Christian views of Judaism (2013) (1)
- Essays on the Jewish World and on Early Christianity (1993) (0)
- Ptolemais (1), Phoenician harbor town (2015) (0)
- Antipater (6), procurator of Judaea, 1st cent. BCE (2015) (0)
- A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus, Part 4. P Ω (1984) (0)
- Josephus as historian of the Herods (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews : George W.E. Nickelsburg, Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction. London: SCM Press, 1981. Pp.xix + 332. Paper, £ 10.00 (1982) (0)
- ‘The One Great Scorer’ (1979) (0)
- The post-war emergence of Jewish Studies in the UnitedKingdom: The early years of the Journal of Jewish Studies (1948-1958) (2006) (0)
- 14 Josephus, Jewish Resistance and the Masada Myth (2016) (0)
- Jason (3), of Cyrene, Greek historian, late 3rd–early 2nd cent. BCE (2016) (0)
- Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine (2005) (0)
- Iulius Alexander, Tiberius (2015) (0)
- Iulius Agrippa (2) II, Marcus, son of Agrippa I, b. 27/28 CE (2016) (0)
- The Letter of Aristeas between History and Myth (2009) (0)
- The Uses of Scripture in Hellenistic Judaism (2009) (0)
- Staying Jewish: Language and Identity in the Greek Bible (2009) (0)
- The Land of Israel as a Political Concept in Hasmonean Literature: Recourse to History in Second Century B.C. Claims to the Holy Land (1988) (0)
- JUSTUS OF TIBERIAS AS A JEWISH HISTORIAN (2001) (0)
- The Fourth Book of Maccabees in a Multi-Cultural City (2016) (0)
- Jerusalem and its priests in the days of the Second Temple (2016) (0)
- The Jews under Roman Rule: From Pompey to Diocletian. (1977) (0)
- Gaius (1), 'Caligula', Roman emperor, 12–41 CE (2016) (0)
- The ancient synagogue: review article (2003) (0)
- THE JEWISH DIASPORA AND JEWISH EPIGRAPHY (2001) (0)
- D. Feeney, Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 161. ISBN 0-521-55104-8 (bound); 0-521-55921-9 (paper). £32.50 (bound); £11.95 (paper). (1999) (0)
- Torah in the Fourth Book of Maccabees (2020) (0)
- (J.) Frey, (D.R.) Schwartz and (S.) Gripentrog Eds. Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Jüdische identität in der griechisch-römischen Welt) (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 71). Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. viii + 435. €135/$201. 9789004158382. (2010) (0)
- Parallels and Models (2009) (0)
- Paideia in the Fourth Book of Maccabees (2017) (0)
- Introduction: Philosophy and Power (2002) (0)
- Iulius Agrippa (1) I, Marcus, client king of Judaea, 10 BCE–44 CE (2016) (0)
- Herod (2) Antipas (2016) (0)
- Josephus in the diaspora’, in J. (2005) (0)
- Josephus through the Eyes of Zvi Hirsch Masliansky (1856–1943): between Eastern Europe, the USA and Eretz Yisra’el (2019) (0)
- Defining the Hebrews in Matthew Arnold's Hebraism and Hellenism (1997) (0)
- Going Greek: Culture and Power in Ptolemaic Alexandria (2009) (0)
- Representing and Subverting Power (2009) (0)
- Josephus. A complete concordance to Flavius Josephus. Ed. K. H. Rengstorf. Vol. 2. E–K. Leiden: Brill. 1975. Pp. [vi] + 549. Fl. 580. (1977) (0)
- Caesarea (2) in Palestine (2015) (0)
- Josephus Shaye J. D. Cohen: Josephus in Galilee. His Vita and Development as a Historian . (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 8.) Pp. xvi + 277. Leiden: Brill, 1979. Fl. 96. (1981) (0)
- Jewish Culture in the Greek-Speaking Diaspora in the Century after the Destruction : Hellenization and Translation (2015) (0)
- The Bible among Greeks and Romans (2009) (0)
- A missionary faith (1994) (0)
- Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment. By Margaret H. Williams. (2017) (0)
- The king and the translation: Power and culture in Ptolemaic Alexandria (2007) (0)
- Jews, Semites and their Cultures inFergus Millar's 'Roman Near East' (2000) (0)
- THE SYNAGOGUE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN CITY (2001) (0)
- Harold W. Hoehner, Herod Antipas . Cambridge: the University Press, 1972. Pp. xv + 437. £7·00. (1974) (0)
- Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism (1974) (0)
- The Jesus of the Classicists (1979) (0)
- Contrasting Worlds in First-Century Palestine (1982) (0)
- Archelaus (4), son of Herod (1) and Augustan ethnarch (2015) (0)
- The Septuagint between Jews and Christians (2009) (0)
- Philip (4), tetrarch, son of Herod (1) (2015) (0)
- The Individual and the Word in Hellenistic Judaism: Cases in Philo and Josephus (2013) (0)
- Philon (4), 'Philo' (2015) (0)
- Herod (1) the Great, c. 73–4 BCE (2016) (0)
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