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Seth Schwartz

SETh SCHWARTZ

Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization

(212) 851-5907
srs166@columbia.edu
405 Fayerweather Hall

Curriculum Vitae
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Office Hours: By appointment only

Research Interests

  • Social, cultural and political history of the ancient Jews, with strong interests in their Hellenistic, Roman and early Christian environments.

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1985
M.A., Columbia University, 1981
B.A., Yeshiva University, 1979

Awards and Fellowships

  • Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows, 1987-1990

  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1999-2000

  • Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 2002-03

  • Membership, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2006-07

  • NEH Fellowship, 2006-07

  • Fellowship, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2007-08

Selected Publications

The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Were the Jews A Mediterranean Society: Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Josephus and Judaean Politics, Leiden: Brill, 1990. 

With R. Bagnall, A. Cameron and K. Worp, Consuls of the Later Roman Empire, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987.

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Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism

Princeton University Press, 2009

Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.

Princeton University Press, 2004

Josephus and Judaean Politics

Leiden: Brill,1990

Consuls of the Later Roman Empire

American Philological Association by Scholars Press, 1987

Department of Classics at Columbia University in the City of New York
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