Eric S. Gruen (b.1935), scholar
Eric S. Gruen (b.1935) is a Austrian-born American scholar.
Biography
PhD (1964), at Harvard University. Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley (since 1966). Served as president of the American Philological Association in 1992.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (1998 Gruen), book
- Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans (2002 Gruen), book