Tessa Rajak

Tessa Rajak (* 2. August 1946 as Tessa Goldsmith in London ) is an English Althistorikerin .

She graduated from the University of Oxford . Until December 2008 she taught as a professor of ancient history at the University of Reading . Rajak is an expert on the social and cultural history of the Jews in Hellenistic and Roman times and early Christianity. Rajak was the editor of The Journal of Jewish Studies . She is married to Harry Rajak , a law professor at the University of Sussex . She is a Fellow at Somerville College .

Fonts

Monographs

Flavius Josephus. Jewish history and the Greek world. Dissertation, University of Oxford 1974.
Josephus. The Historian and His Society. Fortress Press, Philadelphia 1984, ISBN 0-800-60717-1 .
with John North and Judith Lieu : The Jews among pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire. Routledge, London et al. 1992, ISBN 0-415-04972-5 .
The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome. Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction (= work on the history of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. Volume 48). Brill, Leiden et al. 2000, ISBN 90-04-11285-5 .
Translation and survival. The Greek Bible of the ancient Jewish Diaspora. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-199-55867-4 .

Editorships

with Gillian Clark : Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World. Essays in Honor of Miriam Griffin. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2002, ISBN 0-198-29990-7 .
with Sarah Pearce , James Aitken, Jennifer Dines : Jewish perspectives on Hellenistic rulers. University of California Press, Berkeley 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-25084-0 .

William D. Rubinstein , Michael A. Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein (Eds.): The Palgrave dictionary of Anglo-Jewish history. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2011, ISBN 978-1-4039-3910-4 , p. 782.