Shaye J.D. Cohen (M / United States, 1948), scholar

Shaye J.D. Cohen (b.1948) is a Jewish-American scholar, at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), USA. Born in 1948. PhD (1975) in Ancient History at Columbia University. Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, 1974-1991, and Brown University, 1991-2000. Since 2001 Littaeur Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy in the Dept. of Near Eastern languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

Works

Books

• Josephus in Galilee and Rome (1979 Cohen), book

• From the Maccabees to the Mishnah (1987 Cohen), book

• The Jewish Family in Antiquity (1993 Cohen), book

• The Beginnings of Jewishness (1999 Cohen), book

• Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism (2005 Cohen), book

• From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, 2nd ed. (2006 @1987 Cohen), book

• The Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism (2010 Cohen), book

• From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, 3rd ed. (2014 @1987 Cohen), book

Edited volumes

• Diasporas in Antiquity (1993 Cohen/Frerichs), edited volume

• Studies in Josephus and the Varieties of Ancient Judaism ~ Festschrift Louis H. Feldman (2006 Cohen, Schwartz), edited volume

Biography

• Wikipedia
• Harvard University