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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Jewish Studies |
| Keywords | Flavius Josephus, Flavian Rome, Hellenistic-Roman Judaea, Christian origins, Jewish-Christian relations |
Current contact address
| Country | Netherlands |
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| City | Groningen |
| Institution | University of Groningen |
| Institute | Department of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Origins |
| Homepage | http://www.rug.nl/staff/s.mason/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter | Theologische Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2013 |
Programme(s)
| 2011 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Steven Neil Mason is working at the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom. His main research field is the interaction of different cultures, languages and religions in the eastern part of the Roman Empire in Hellenistic and Roman times. He is an expert on the life and writings of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (1st century A.D.). The common enterprise during Steve Mason's research stay in Berlin is a historiographical project, dealing with Jewish and Christian historiography in antiquity. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2016 | Steve Mason: A History of the Jewish War, A.D. 66-74. Cambridge University Press, 2016 |
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