Research Fields

• Hellenistic Judaism
• Early Christianity
• Rabbinic Sources in the Land of Israel
• Comparative Religion
• Bible Exegesis

About

Maren Niehoff is Max Cooper Chair of Jewish Philosophy and a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

She has published widely in the area of ancient Jewish philosophy, early Christianity and rabbinic literature and initiated numerous, interdisciplinary research projects.

Her work has been acknowledged by prestigious prizes and grants from international foundations.

 

Selected Publications

Philo of Alexandria. An Intellectual Biography (New Haven 2018).

Homeric Scholarship and Jewish Bible Exegesis in Alexandria (Cambridge 2011).

Philo on Jewish Identity and Culture (Tübingen 2001).

Self, Self-Fashioning and Individuality in Late Antiquity, edited together with Joshua Levinson (Tübingen 2019).

Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real (edited, Tübingen 2017). 

 

Selected Awards

2022 Leopold Lucas Prize

2019 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines

2019 Finalist Jordan Schnitzer Prize

2011 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines

 

Teaching

2021-2 "Hellenistic Judaism", "Genesis Rabbah in Context", "Who is Against Who?"

2020-1 "Paul", "Hellenistic Judaism in Late Antiquity", "Who is Against Who?"

2019-20 "The Book of Genesis between Jews, Christians and Pagans", "Origen's Newly Discovered Homilies", "Who is Against Who?"