Peter Schäfer (1943-), scholar

Peter Schäfer (b.1943) is a German scholar, at Princeton University (Princeton NJ), USA.

Biography

Born in Germany. PhD 1968 (University of Freiburg). Professor of Jewish Studies at the Dept. of Religion at Princeton University from 1998.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World (Cambridge Mass. 1997)
• Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah (Princeton 2003)
• The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World (London 2003)
• Jesus in the Talmud (Princeton 2007)

Edited volumes

• The Bar Kokhba War Reconsidered (2003 Schäfer), edited volume