I study diverse forms of ancient Judaism with emphasis on its contacts with its Greco-Roman and Christian environment. My research focuses on Philo of Alexandria and Hellenistic Judaism in Late Antique Palaestina. My last book, Philo of Alexandria. An Intellectual Biography (Yale 2018) received several prizes and was translated into 4 languages, including Hebrew. In 2022 my work was awarded the Leopold Lucas Prize of Tübingen University. As a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, I founded a national center for the study of Late Antique Palaestina and am editing 3 volumes of Greek and Latin texts in Hebrew translation, which were written in this region and reflect the rich cultural life which existed here.

 

Publications:

Maren R. Niehoff, “Roman-Style Jurists in Ancient Judaism. Telling the Story from Philo and Josephus to the Rabbis”, in R. Kirstein and S. Schmidt-Hofner (eds.), Recht als Erzählung. Narratologie und Recht von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart (Basel: Schwabe, forthcoming 2024).

Maren R. Niehoff, “The Rabbis of Caesarea: The Formation of a Group Image as Key to the Redaction of Genesis Rabbah and the Jerusalem Talmud”, Te’uda (forthcoming).