Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity, 135-700 CE

Fergus Millar: Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1958-64 Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, The Queen's College, Oxford, 1964-76 Professor of Ancient History, University College London, 1976-84 Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford, 1984-2002 Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, 2002-4 Sather Professor of Classical Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-3 Eyal Ben-Eliyahu: Ph.D in Jewish History in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Teaches Jewish History and Jewish studies at the Hebrew University and Haifa University.Yehudah Cohn: Received his D. Phil. in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford (Wolfson College) in 2007, where he was supervised by Professor Martin Goodman. A revised version of his doctoral dissertation was published in 2008 by Brown Judaic Studies, under the title Tangled Up in Text: Tefillin and the Ancient World. Dr. Cohn was born and raised in London, and had earlier graduated from London Business School. He began his studies in Oxford after a business career trading commodities in New York.

• 1: Historical Introduction2: Talmudic Texts3: Midrashic Texts4: Mystical (Hekhalot) and Magical Literature5: Targumim6: Liturgical Texts7: Historiography8: Apocalyptic9: Contemporary Documents in Hebrew or Aramaic

the book can be recommended to first-year students and ancient historians as a first step towards learning Hebrew, studying the texts themselves, and engaging in a more serious study of ancient Jewish history and literature. Catherine Hezser, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies A small masterpiece of breadth, concision and clarity; it is one of those select books which every library should have, and which a great many individual readers will want to buy for themselves. William Horbury, Journal of Jewish Studies