Maren R. Niehoff

Maren R. Niehoff (b.1963) is an Israeli scholar.

Biography

Maren R. Niehoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Born in Oberhausen, Germany, Niehoff studied Jewish Studies, Literature and Philosophy in Berlin and Jerusalem, and gained her PhD from the University of Oxford in 1989. In 1989-91 she was Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Since 1991 she has been working at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (1992 Niehoff), book

• Philo on Jewish Identity and Culture (2001 Niehoff), book

• Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (2011 Niehoff), book

External links

• [ Wikipedia]