Joseph Sievers, scholar
Joseph Sievers is a German scholar. Professor of Jewish History and Literature of the Hellenistic Period. at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome.
Biography
PhD (1981) at Columbia University, USA. Director (2003-2009) of the Card. Bea Center for Judaic Studies.
Bibliography
Books
- The Hasmoneans and Their Supporters: From Mattathias to the Death of John Hyrcanus I (Atlanta 1990)
---. Synopsis of the Greek Sources for the Hasmonean Period: 1-2 Maccabees and Josephus, War 1 and Antiquities 12-14 (Rome 2001)
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)