Peter Schäfer (1943-), scholar

Peter Schäfer (b.1943) is a German scholar, at Princeton University (Princeton NJ), USA.

Biography

Born in Germany. PhD 1968 (University of Freiburg). Professor of Jewish Studies at the Dept. of Religion at Princeton University from 1998.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Der Bar Kokhba-Aufstand (1981 Schäfer), book
• Geschichte der Juden in der Antike (1983 Schäfer), book
  • Histoire des juifs dans l'antiquité (1989 Schäfer), book (French ed.)
  • The History of the Jews in Antiquity (1995 Schäfer), book (English ed.)
  • The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World (2003 Schäfer), book (revised ed.)
• Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World (1997 Schäfer), book
• Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah (2003 Schäfer), book
• Jesus in the Talmud (2007 Schäfer), book

Edited volumes

• The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered (2003 Schäfer), edited volume

External links

• Wikipedia / [1]