Joseph Sievers, scholar

Joseph Sievers is a German scholar, at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome.

Biography

PhD (1981) at Columbia University, USA. Professor of Jewish History and Literature of the Hellenistic Period. Director (2003-2009) of the Card. Bea Center for Judaic Studies.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Hasmoneans and Their Supporters (1990 Sievers), book
• Synopsis of the Greek Sources for the Hasmonean Period (2001 Sievers), book

Edited volumes

• (with Fausto Parente). Josephus and the History of the Greco-Roman Period: Essays in Memory of Morton Smith (Leiden 1994)
• (with Gaia Lembi). Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond (Leiden 2005)

• The Pharisees (2021 Sievers, Levine), edited volume