Oxford Faculty with Interests in Jewish Studies

(Listed according to faculty of primary affiliation; those marked with an asterisk are members of the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit of the Faculty of Oriental Studies; R=retired but still active in research)

ANTHROPOLOGY

*Dr Renee Hirschon

(Social Anthropology)

ARCHAEOLOGY

*Dr Garth Gilmour

(Biblical Archaeology)

CLASSICS

*Professor Fergus Millar (R)

(Judaism in the Roman Imperial and Early Byzantine periods)

Professor Tim Whitmarsh

(Jewish Greek Literature)

ENGLISH

Professor Sharon Achinstein

(Hebraism in early modern British intellectual and literary history)

Professor Ron Bush

(Jewish American literature)

GEOGRAPHY

Professor Colin Clarke (R) 

(Black slavery and the Jewish  Holocaust: racist regimes in the Caribbean and Europe)

HISTORY

Professor Jane Caplan

(Modern European History)

Dr Peter Claus

(Late-19th century London Jewry)

Dr John Edwards

(The three Abrahamic faith communities in late medieval and early modern Spain, with particular  emphasis on the Jewish communities, conversion to Christianity, expulsion, and the Inquisition)

Professor Robert Evans

(History of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, especially Hungary)

Dr Lawrence Goldman

(Anglo-Jewish History since the 18th century; Jewish lives in the Dictionary of National Biography)

*Dr Abigail Green

(International Jewish History)

Dr Ruth Harris

(French History; currently finishing a revisionist study of the Dreyfus Affair)

Dr Noel Malcolm

(Early modern intellectual history)

 

Professor Avner Offer

(Economy and society of Israel and of Jews in the diaspora)

Professor Nick Stargardt

(Social history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust)

LAW

Professor Joshua Getzler

(Jewish Law)

MODERN LANGUAGES

*Dr David Groiser

(German-Jewish thought and literature; modern Jewish thought)

*Dr Kerstin Hoge 

(Yiddish Linguistics and Literature)

Professor Anthony Phelan 

(German literature)

Professor Ritchie Robertson

(Kafka, the ‘Jewish Question’ in German literature, and German Jewish literature)

Mr Kostas Skordyles

(Greek Jewry)

MUSIC

Dr Joshua Walden

(20th-century art and popular music in the Jewish diaspora, especially  Ernest Bloch, the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, and the music of Yiddish Cinema)

ORIENTAL STUDIES

*Professor Glenda Abramson (R)

(Modern Hebrew literature)

*Dr David Ariel

(Jewish mysticism)

*Dr Sebastian Brock (R)

(Syriac studies)

*Professor Martin Goodman

(Jews in the Roman World)

*Dr Timothy Michael Law

(Jewish and Christian Textual Traditions)

*Dr Cesar Merchan-Hamann

(Medieval Hebrew Literature, German-Jewish Studies and Yiddish)

Dr Laurent Mignon

(Judeo-Turkish Literature; 19th-century intellectual history)

*Mr Ron Nettler

(Modern Jewish-Muslim Relations)

*Professor Tessa Rajak (R)

(Jews in the Roman World)

*Dr David Rechter

(Modern Jewish History)

Dr Deborah Rooke

(Bible Studies)

*Dr Alison Salvesen

(Bible Versions)

*Dr Jeremy Schonfield

(Liturgy)

*Dr Norman Solomon (R)

(Modern Judaism)

Dr Katherine Southwood

(Biblical Hebrew)

*Dr Zehavit Stern

(Jewish culture and literature in eastern Europe; film)

*Dr David Taylor

(Syriac)

*Dr Piet van Boxel

(Hebrew manuscripts and early Hebrew printing)

*Professor Geza Vermes (R)

(Dead Sea Scrolls; history of Judaism in antiquity, Judaism and nascent Christianity)

*Professor Jonathan Webber

(Modern Jewish Society; Polish Jewish Studies)

*Dr Haike Beruriah Wiegand

(Yiddish language and Literature)

*Dr Joanna Weinberg

(Rabbinic Literature, early modern Jewish scholarship)

*Professor Hugh Williamson

(Biblical Studies)

*Dr Gil Zahavi

(Modern Hebrew language)

PHILOSOPHY

Dr Brian Klug

(Contemporary Jewish identity, Zionism and modern antisemitism)

POLITICS

Professor Derek Penslar

(from Oct. 2012 Israel Studies)

Professor Peter Pulzer (R)

(Modern Jewish history)

Professor Avi Shlaim

(Israeli foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict)

THEOLOGY

Professor John Barton

(Hebrew Bible; the canon of the Bible)

Professor Markus Bockmuehl

(Second Temple Judaism; Dead Sea scrolls; early rabbinic Judaism)

Dr Hywel Clifford;

(Biblical Studies, Monotheism, Deutero-Isaiah, Pre-Socratics, Philo of Alexandria)

Professor John Day;

(Hebrew Bible: Religion, literature, history, languages, theology and archaeology, especially in light of their Ancient Near Eastern background)

Dr Eva De Visscher

(Medieval Jewish-Christian relations in Ashkenaz)

*Dr Miri Freud-Kandel

(Modern Judaism)

Dr Susan Gillingham

(Reception history of the psalms)

*Dr Paul Joyce

(Hebrew Bible)

Dr David Lincicum

(Second Temple Judaism; apocalyptic traditions)

Professor Christopher Rowland

(Second Temple Judaism; Apocalyptic)

Professor Guy Stroumsa

(Judaism in relation to Christianity in late-antiquity)

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