Joseph Sievers, scholar

Joseph Sievers is a German scholar, at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome.

Biography

PhD (1981) at Columbia University, USA. Professor of Jewish History and Literature of the Hellenistic Period. Director (2003-2009) 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)