Tessa Rajak (1946-), scholar

Tessa Rajak is a British scholar at the University of Reading, England.

Biography

Born in 1946. Professor of Ancient History in the Dept of Classics.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Josephus: The Historian and His Society (London 1983; 2nd ed. 2002)
• The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction (Leiden 2000)
• Translation and Survival:

The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora (Oxford 2009)

Edited volumes

• (et alii). The Jews among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (London 1992)
• Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers (Berkeley 2007)