Prof. Dr. Steven N. Mason

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietJudaistik
KeywordsFlavius Josephus, Flavian Rome, Hellenistic-Roman Judaea, Christian origins, Jewish-Christian relations

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandNiederlande
OrtGroningen
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Groningen
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Origins
Websitehttp://www.rug.nl/staff/s.mason/

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Jens SchröterTheologische Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.01.2013

Programm(e)

2011Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

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.

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2016Steve Mason: A History of the Jewish War, A.D. 66-74. Cambridge University Press, 2016