Philip Alexander
Professor
Post-Biblical Jewish Literature
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Biography
Began his academic career as a Classicist, then switched to the study of Hebrew and Semitic languages, but has retained a fundamental interest in the problem of how to contextualize Rabbinic Judaism in the Graeco-Roman world of late antiquity. From 1992-95 was President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Research Interest
The history of Judaism in the Second Temple and Talmudic periods; early Jewish Bible interpretation, particularly Midrash and Targum; Jewish interpretations of the Song of Songs and Lamentations;
Publications
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Sadgrove PC, Alexander PS, Brooke GJ, Christmann A, Healey JF (2005) Studia Semitica: The Journal of Semitic Studies Jubilee Volume. (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Alexander PS, Elior R (Ed.), Schäfer P (Ed.) (2005) The Talmudic Concept of Conjuring (`Ahizat cEinayim) and the Problem of the Definition of Magic (Kishuf). In Creation and Recreation in Jewish Thought: Festschrift in Honor of Joseph Dan on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Mohr Siebeck.
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Alexander PS (2005) The Mystical Texts (Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls). T&T Clark International.
