Staff Profile:Professor Tessa Rajak

Name:

Professor Tessa Rajak

Job Title:

Professor, of Ancient History - retired

Responsibilities:

Professor Rajak retired from the University of Reading, in December 2008, after many years of teaching and service.  For the conference in her honour, please click here.

Areas of Interest:

Special interests include social and cultural history of the Jews in Hellenistic and Roman periods; early Christianity.

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Publications:

Publications include:

• The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome. Studies in Cultural and social Interaction
• Josephus: the historian and his society
• The Jews among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (with John North and Judith Lieu)
• Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World: Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin (2002), co-ed with Gillian Clark
• Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible and the Ancient Jewish Diaspora (2009)