Anne Fitzpatrick
Lecturer
Near and Middle Eastern Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
I wrote my Ph.D. on Torah in the pre-exilic period at Trinity College Dublin and it was published as a monograph and a number of papers on the topic. My current research focuses on the period of restoration within the context of imperial rule in the ancient Near East and her book on the subject will appear this year with Brill. I am the co-organizer of a series of workshops on the Persian Empire that are conducted between Trinity College Dublin and the Department of Biblical Studies, Sheffield University. My current book project explores the response of small territorial kingdoms to imperial rule. I am currently supervising six Ph.D./M/Litt. Students whose research covers a wide range of subjects, including the Jews of Egypt, Jewish literature from the Second Temple period and the history of the kingdom of Edom. I have served as secretary to the Royal Irish Academy’s Committee for Biblical and Near Eastern Religions and is a founder member of the Trinity-Sheffield Committee for Persian History through which she has organised a number of conferences. I also am a member of the Committee for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies.
Research Interest
Research interests are focused on the study of how Judaism emerged against the background of the worldview of the ancient Near East. I have a particular interest in how Second Temple Judaism and the political structures which were based in the temple emerged against the background of how Jewish elites dealt with the challenges of imperial control and this has been the focus of my book which is currently in press. I am also involved in a conference centring on the theme of conditions in Yehud and other regions under Achaemenid rule. This is being co-organised with Dr Diana Edelman of the Department of Biblical Studies in Sheffield. The conference will involve experts from both the fields of Biblical Studies/ Early Judaism and Classics. The conference will be funded by the Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and the British Academy.
Publications
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Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, The Transformation of Torah from Scribal Advice to Law, Sheffield, UK, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999, Book, PUBLISHED
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Anne Fitzpatrick Mc Kinley, Yhwh and the gods of Palestine: a study of the seal and inscriptional evidence, Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Society, January, 2000, p19 - 39, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
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Les grandes institutions juives: la Torah in, editor(s)J.M Mayeur, L. Pietri, A Vauchez, M. Verand , Historie du Christianisme, Paris, Desclee, 2000, pp377 - 395, [A. Fitzpatrick Mc Kinley], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Synagogue Communities in the Graeco-Roman City in, editor(s)J. R. Bartlett , Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities, London, Routledge, 2002, pp55 - 87, [A. Fitzpatrick-McKinley], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Ezra Nehemiah and some early Greek Lawgivers in, editor(s)C. Hezser , Rabbinic Law in its Roman and Near Eastern Context, Tubingen, Germany, Mohr Siebeck, 2003, pp17 - 48, [A. Fitzpatrick Mc Kinley], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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What did Nehemiah do for Judaism? in, editor(s)Z. Rodgers, M. Daly-Denton, A. Fitzpatrick-Mckinley , A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009, pp93 - 120, [A. Fitzpatrick-McKinley], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Zuleika Rodgers, Margaret Daly-Denton, A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009, 1 - 619pp, Book, PUBLISHED
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Continuity Between Assyrian and Persian Policies Towards the Cults of their Subjects in, editor(s)D. Edelman, P. Guillaume, A. Fitzpatrick-McKinley , Religion in the Persian Period, Berlin, Mohr Siebeck, 2015, pp42 - 84, [Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Indigenous Elites in Yehud: the inscriptional evidence from Xanthus, Tayma and Dedan and the Nehemiah Memoir in, editor(s)Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley , Assessing Biblical and Classical Sources for the Persian Period, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2015, pp1 - 42, [Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Introduction to Assessing Biblical and Classical Sources for the Persian Period in, editor(s)Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley , Assessing Biblical and Classical Sources for the Persian Period, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2015, pp1 - 11, [Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
