Leonard Rutgers
Department of History and Art History - Ancient History and
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Prof.dr. L.V. Rutgers is Professor of Late Antiquity. He is particularly interested in questions of identity formation, migration, religion and violence in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Rutgers' research is interdisciplinary in nature as evidenced by publications in Nature, Radiocarbon and The Journal of Archaeological Science. He is the author of the award winning The Jews in Late Ancient Rome. Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora (2000), and various other publications in the area of Jewish-Christian relations, including Making Myths. Jews in Early Christian Identity Formation (2009).
Research Interest
Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (RMA)
Publications
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Rutgers, L.V. (12.03.2016). Aan Athene’s bloei hing menselijk prijskaartje. Het Financieele Dagblad
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Rutgers, L.V. (2016). Review of B. Mazzei (ed.), Il cubicolo degli Apostoli nelle catacombe romane di Sancta Tecla. Cronaca di una scoperta. Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum, 56/57, (pp. 199-200).
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Rutgers, L.V. (2016). Next year in Sardis: Reflections on whether the Jewish Diaspora of the Roman Era was Diasporic at all. In Constanza Cordoni & Gerhard Langer (Eds.), “Let the Wise Listen and Add to Their Learning†(Prov 1:5). Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th birthday (pp. 167-196). Berlin: de Gruyter.
