Joseph Sievers, scholar

Joseph Sievers is a German scholar. Professor of Jewish History and Literature of the Hellenistic Period. at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome.

Biography

PhD (1981) at Columbia University, USA. Director of the Card. Bea Center for Judaic Studies.

Bibliography

Books

• The Hasmoneans and Their Supporters: From Mattathias to the Death of John Hyrcanus I (Atlanta 1990)

---. Synopsis of the Greek Sources for the Hasmonean Period: 1-2 Maccabees and Josephus, War 1 and Antiquities 12-14 (Rome 2001)

Edited volumes

(With Fausto Parente). Josephus and the History of the Greco-Roman Period: Essays in Memory of Morton Smith (Leiden 1994) (With Gaia Lembi). Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond (Leiden 2005)