Prof. Dr. Daniel R. Schwartz

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsJewish Studies,Other Areas of History
KeywordsJosephus, Judentum und Hellenismus, Makkabäer, jüdische Identität, jüdische Religionsparteien

Current contact address

CountryIsrael
CityJerusalem
InstitutionHebrew University of Jerusalem
InstituteDepartment of Jewish History
Homepagehttp://jewish.huji.ac.il/faculty/history_faculty/schwartz.html

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jörg FreyAbteilung Neues Testament, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2002

Programme(s)

2002Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Daniel Schwartz is one of the leading scholars in ancient Jewish history. His works on the Second Temple period and on hellenistic Jewish literature have opened up new perspectives in our view of ancient Judaism and the background of early Christianity. With his commerntary on 2 Maccabees - the first one in modern Hebrew - Schwartz has bridged the gulf between North American, European, Israeli scholarship. His projected English commentary will become a highly innovative and most detailed interpretation of his hellenistic Jewish work.