Sacha Stern

Sacha Stern () is a British Jewish scholar. Sacha Stern received his PhD (1992) in Jewish Studies from the University of Oxford. He is Professor of Rabbinic Judaism at the University College London, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Works

Books

• Jewish Identity in Early Rabbinic Writings (1994 Stern), book

• Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar (2001 Stern), book

• Time and Process in Ancient Judaism (2003 Stern), book

Articles

• "Fictitious calendars: early rabbinic notions of time, astronomy, and reality", Jewish Quarterly Review 87 (1996), pp.103-29.

• "The Babylonian Calendar at Elephantine", in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 130 (2000), pp.159-71.

• "Rabbi and the origins of the patriarchate", Journal of Jewish Studies 54 (2003), pp.192-215.

• "Near Eastern lunar calendars in the Syriac Martyr Acts", Le Muséon 117 (2004), pp.447-72.

• "The Babylonian month and the new moon: sighting and prediction", Journal for the History of Astronomy 39.1 (2008), pp.19-42.

Chapters in Books

• "Dissonance and misunderstanding in Jewish-Roman Relations", in M.D.Goodman (ed.), Jews in a Graeco-Roman World (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), pp.241-50.

• "Qumran calendars: theory and practice", in T.Lim (ed.), The Dead Sea Scrolls in their Historical Context (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000), pp.179-86.

• "Pagan images in late antique Palestinian synagogues", in S.Mitchell and G.Geatrex (eds.), Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity (London: Duckworth and Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2000), pp.241-52.

• "Jewish calendar reckoning in Graeco-Roman cities", in J.R. Bartlett (ed.), Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities (London: Routledge, 2002), pp.107-16.

External links

• [ Wikipedia]