Shaye J.D. Cohen (M / United States, 1948), scholar
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Shaye J.D. Cohen is a Jewish-American scholar, at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), USA.
Biography
Born in 1948. PhD (1975) at Columbia University. Littaeur Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy in the Dept. of Near Eastern languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Josephus in Galilee and Rome: His Vita and Development as a Historian (Leiden 1979)
- From the Maccabees to the Mishnah (Philadelphia 1987; 2nd ed. Louisville 2006)
- The Jewish Family in Antiquity (Atlanta 1993)
- The Beginnings of Jewishness(Berkeley 1999)
Edited volumes
- (with Ernest D. Frerichs). Diasporas in Antiquity (Atlanta 1993)
- (et al.). Studies in Josephus and the Varieties of Ancient Judaism (Leiden 2007)