Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism ― Studies for Tal Ilan at Sixty

Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism is a Festschrift in honor of Prof. Tal Ilan. The essays reflect realms within the broad field of Ancient Judaism that are central to Ilan’s scholarship: Second Temple literary sources and history, Gender, Jewish papyrology and rabbinic literature.

Meron M. Piotrkowski, Ph.d. (2015), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a postdoctoral researcher at the university’s Department of the History of the Jewish People. He has published articles on Josephus, Jewish-Hellenistic Literature, the Temple of Onias and Jewish Papyri.

Geoffrey Herman Ph.D (2006), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has published monographs and articles on Babylonian Jewish history, including A Prince without a Kingdom: the Exilarch in the Sasanian Era (Mohr Siebeck, 2012).

Saskia Donitz, PhD (2008), Freie Universitat Berlin, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe Universitat Frankfurt a.M. Her major fields of research include medieval Hebrew historiography, and Ashkenazic and Byzantine Jewish intellectual history. Earlier she published Uberlieferung und Rezeption des Sefer Yosippon (Mohr Siebeck, 2013).