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Seth Schwartz
Gerson D. Cohen Professor of Rabbinic Culture and Professor of History
Jewish Theological Seminary
3080 Broadway
New York
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Seth Schwartz
Gerson D. Cohen Professor of Rabbinic Culture and Professor of History
Jewish Theological Seminary
History
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Biography
Research: Social History of Jew in Antiquity; Palestinian Archaeology and Epigraphy; Historiography; Apocalypticism
A scholar of ancient Judaism, Dr. Schwartz received the National Jewish Book Award for his work Imperialism and Jewish Society, 152 BCE-640 CE
(Princeton University Press, 2001), a study of the influence of
imperialism on the religious, political, social and economic
development of Jewish life in ancient Palestine. He is also the author
of Josephus and Judaean Politics (E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1990), co-author of Consuls of the Later Roman Empire
(American Philological Association, Philological Monographs, Atlanta,
1987) and author of numerous articles and reviews that have appeared in
scholarly journals. Dr. Schwartz edited, along with Richard Kalmin, Jewish Culture and Society under the Christian Roman Empire (Peeters, 2003).
Dr. Schwartz has been a full-time member of the JTS faculty since
1995 and previously taught at Cornell University, University of Rhode
Island and Dropsie College in Merion, Pennsylvania. In 1999, he was the
recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship.
Dr. Schwartz earned a MA, MPhil and PhD in ancient history from Columbia University and a BA, magna cum laude,
in classics from Yeshiva University. Dr. Schwartz's impressive academic
credentials include fellowships at King's College, Cambridge; the
Harvard University Society of Fellows and Hebrew University in
Jerusalem.
Books:
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The Ancient Jews: Imperialism and Society, 152 BCE - 640 CE
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Josephus and Judaean Politics Available
for Purchase
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Consuls of the Later Roman Empire
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